UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 4-7 in Baltimore, Maryland. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Visit us at booths 1069/1071 to browse our books and journals!
Attending the conference virtually or can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit here for the same great books and conference discount.
Below is a schedule of UNP author panels, signings, and more.
Wednesday, March 4: In the conference
6:30-8:00 p.m. EDT: AWP Awards Reception & Celebration
Kick off #AWP26 with the AWP Awards Reception, hosted by Carla Du Pree, AWP board member and executive director of the Baltimore literary nonprofit CityLit Project!
The event will honor and celebrate the winners of AWP’s annual awards including Dean Marshall Tuck, whose novel Twinless Twin is the winner of the 2024 James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel. Ben Grossberg’s novel The Spring Before Obergefell was the 2023 winner.
Thursday, March 5: Happening in booth 1069/1071
All day: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).
10:30-11:00 a.m. DUAL book signing with Jill Christman, author of The Heart Folds Early, AND Sue William Silverman, author of Selected Misdemeanors.
1:30-2:00 p.m. book signing with Teo Rivera-Dundas, author of Slow Guillotine.
2:30-3:00 p.m. book signing with Melissa Fraterrrigo, author of The Perils of Girlhood.
3:30-4:00 p.m. book signing with Kerry James Evans, author of Nine Persimmons, the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention.
Thursday, March 5: In the conference
9:00-10:15 a.m. EDT
T109: “Little Magazines in Urgent Times: Editing for Community & Change” with Gerald Maa, series editor of Georgia Review Books.
T126: “Writing Gender-Based Sexual Violence Is Difficult Enough, So How Do We Teach It?” with Jill Christman, author of The Heart Folds Early, and moderated by Sue William Silverman, author of Selected Misdemeanors.
10:35-11:50 a.m. EDT
T143: “Shaping the Narrative: African Literature for a Global Audience” with Romeo Oriogun, author of The Gathering of Bastards and Sacrament of Bodies.
T147: “Don’t Box Me In! Crossing Genres & Defying Categorization” with SJ Sindu, series editor of Zero Street Fiction.
T148: “Fifty Years of Gargoyle: A Celebration of Gargoyle Magazine & Richard Peabody” with Tim Wendel, author of Escape from Castro’s Cuba.
12:10-1:10 p.m. EDT
T153: “Flat Waters Run Deep: Readings by Plainsongs Writers” including Matt Mason, author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know.
1:45-3:00 p.m. EDT
T193: “Dodge, Duck & Dazzle: Creative Writing Faculty’s DEI Dodgeball Arena in Florida” with Romeo Oriogun, author of The Gathering of Bastards and Sacrament of Bodies.
Thursday, March 5: Off-Site Events
7:00 p.m. EDT
“Night of Flash Nonfiction Reading: Beautiful Things, In Short, Short Reads” with Jill Christman, author of The Heart Folds Early and If This Were Fiction. Happening at Luckie’s Liquors, just .8 mi from the convention center.
Friday, March 6: In booth 1069/1071
All day: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).
10:30-11:00 a.m. book signing with Dean Marshall Tuck, author of Twinless Twin.
1:30-2:00 p.m. book signing with Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of And You Will Call It Fate.
2:30-3:00 p.m. book signing with Jason Brown, author of Character Witness.
3:30-4:00 p.m. book signing with Shann Ray, author of Where Blackbirds Fly.
Friday, March 6: In the Conference
9:00-10:15 a.m. EDT
F109: “Flashes of Truth: A Celebration & Examination of the Flash Essay Form” with Ira Sukrungruang, author of This Jade World.
F110: “On the Ethics of Writing Violence: A Roundtable Discussion” with Julija Sukys, author of Siberian Exile, Epistolophilia, and Silence Is Death.
F123: “A Laboratory for Innovative Storytelling: The Goucher MFA in Nonfiction” with Randon Billings Noble, author of Be With Me Always and editor of A Harp in the Stars.
F127: “Poetry & the Sacred” with Jared Harél author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject.
1:45-3:00 p.m. EDT
F178: “Rewriting the Archive: Poetic Voices on Who Defines History,” sponsored by Alice James Books, with Natalie Diaz, author of Bodies Built for Game.
F193: “Editors of Color: The Political & Personal,” sponsored by CLMP, with Gerald Maa, series editor of Georgia Review Books.
3:20-4:35 p.m. EDT
F209: “Bad Romance: On Writing Difficult Relationships” with Ira Sukrungruang, author of This Jade World.
F212: “Script Curious: How Book Writers Can “Beat Their Own Path” into Screenwriting” with David Shields, author of Black Planet and Body Politic.
6:30-7:45 p.m. EDT
F234: “Women’s Caucus” moderated by DeMisty D. Bellinger, author of All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere.
Friday, March 6: Off-Site Events
5:30-7:30 p.m. EDT
“Birthing New Books: Four Writer-Editors with Big Babies & Brand-New Books Talk Motherhood, Publishing, the Planet—& That Hilarious Thing We Call Work-Life Balance” with Jill Christman, author of The Heart Folds Early, Lara Lilibridge (Moderator), Summer Stewart, and Nicole Walker. Happening at Pickles Pub, just .4 mi—a 6-minute walk!—from the convention center.
Saturday, March 7: In booth 1069/1071
In the morning: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).
10:00-10:30 a.m. book signing with Kimberly Ann Priest, author of Wolves in Shells, winner of The Backwaters Prize in Poetry.
Saturday, March 7: In the conference
9:00-10:15 a.m. EDT
S114: “Environment, Locale, Identity: Setting in Contemporary American Literature” with Lee Martin, author of Telling Stories, Such a Life, From Our House, and more.
S120: “The Flash Nonfiction Editors Roundtable: Advice from the EICs” with Jill Christman, author of The Heart Folds Early.
S123: “The Essay for Writers Who Work in Multiple Genres” with Bailey Gaylin Moore, author of Thank You For Staying With Me.
12:10-1:25 p.m. EDT
S166: “Smart, Scintillating & Unapologetic: Badass B*tches over Sixty” with Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart.
S170: “Literary Influence: Is it Homage or Theft?” with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered.
1:45-3:00 p.m. EDT
S182: “Poetics, Politics & Ethics of Memory, Imagination & Mourning in the Elegy” with Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Bakandamiya.
3:20-4:35 p.m. EDT
S214: “The Hidden Life of Chapbooks” with Benjamin Grossberg, author of The Spring Before Obergefell.
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