See you at #AWP17!
The National Book Foundation is headed to Washington, D.C. for #AWP17 . Here are some of the National Book Award Winners, Finalists, Longlist and 5 Under 35 honorees who you can catch during the conference. We’ll see you there!
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award Winner and Finalist
Mystery in the Writing Process: Discovery, Revelation, and Witholding for Writers and Their Readers
9:00AM-10:15AM
Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Kekla Magoon
A Lecture by Jacqueline Woodson, sponsored by The Poetry Foundation
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Winner & four time National Book Award Finalist Jacqueline Woodson
VIDA Voices & Views: Exclusive Interview with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Ada Limón, & Alicia Ostriker
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón
The Art of the Novella: Publishers and Writers On Crafting the Beautifully In-Between
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Josh Weill
Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Karen Yamashita
Some of My Best Friends Are Octavia Butler and Ursula K. LeGuin: Genre Bias in the Creative Writing
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Asali Solomon
But Do You Have a Novel? How and Why Short Story Writers Transition into Novelists
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Kirstin Valdez Quade
Copyright Basics for the Digital Age
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Featuring two-time National Book Award Finalist James Gleick
Going for Gold: Five Novelists Rewrite the Sports Narrative
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tracy O'Neill
An Invitation to Poetic Discovery, Sponsored by Poets House
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist & Longlist author Monica Youn
Friday, February 10, 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen, National Book Award Finalist
Celebrating The Golden Shovel Anthology in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks
9:00AM-10:15AM
Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson
Strange Bedfellows: The Unholy Mingling of Politics and Art
9:00AM-10:15AM
Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Anthony Marra
Workshopping War: The Challenges of War Writing in the Classroom
10:30am - 11:45am
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips
Crafty: Four City University of New York MFA Graduates Read from Their Work
10:30am - 11:45am
Featuring National Book Award Winner and 5 Under 35 Honoree Phil Klay
Beyond Sex: The Poetics of Desire
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles
Coming of Age: The Blurry Lines between Adult & YA literature
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds
Raising Hell: Writing from the Extremes
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tea Obreht
American Smooth: A Tribute to Rita Dove
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Winner Robin Coste Lewis and National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove
The Interconnectedness of Poetry & Memoir
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tracy K. Smith
A Reading and Conversation with Alexander Chee and Valeria Luiselli, Sponsored by Coffee House Press and Kundiman
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli and National Book Foundation Executive Director, Lisa Lucas
Going There: Writing the Complicated Truth in the World's Hot Spots
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Brit Bennett
A Tribute to Marie Ponsot
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Kevin Young
Daddy's Little Girl, and Other Misfortunes in YA
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby
To Sing the Idea of All: Walt Whitman in DC
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Featuring Literarian Award Winner and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady
A Conversation between Chimamanda Ngozi and Ta-Nehisi Coates
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates
Distant Lands, Intimate Voices
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Viet Thanh Nguyen
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Rita Dove, National Book Award Finalist
Poetry As Invocation
10:30am - 11:45am
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón
Get in Formation: Form in YA Literature
10:30am - 11:45am
Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson
Being the Change You Want to See: The New Literary Leadership
10:30am - 11:45am
Featuring National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas
Immigrants / Children of Immigrants
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Monica Youn
21st Century Troubadours
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove
Women Writers Get Gritty
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips
No Easy Readers: The Challenges of Writing for Children
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Anne Ursu
The Ghosts of History
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist and 5 Under 35 Honoree Angela Flournoy
A Reading and Conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Tim Seibles, and Danez Smith.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles
Socially Conscious Fiction
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Garth Greenwell
Going for Broke: Working Class Writers on Choosing a Career In The Arts
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tiphanie Yanique
Writing Across Cultures
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli
Conversation with Ross Gay & Tina Chang
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ross Gay
Poetry in the Age of the Drone
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Featuring National Book Award Finalist Solmaz Sharif
Reading with Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes & Ocean Vuong
8:30pm - 10:00pm
Featuring National Book Award Winner Rita Dove, and National Book Award Winner & Finalist Terrance Hayes
Reading with Colum McCann & Margot Livesly
8:30pm - 10:00pm
Featuring National Book Award Winner Colum McCann
