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MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS AT AWP 2017!

Visit us at AWP’s 2017 conference in Washington D.C.! We have an awesome lineup of authors and events that you won’t want to miss.

Be sure to visit Booth 682 for information and books, February 9-11!

9:00am: Amanda Petrusich joins panel for Dylanology (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Meghan Daum gives a reading of Selfish, Shallow, and Self Absorbed (Room 203AB); Sarah Blake appears in “Global Narratives Within US Literature” panel (Room 204AB)

10:30am: Steven Sherrill joins panel “Leashing the Beast: Humanizing Fictional Monsters” (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Alice Anderson appears in “But That’s Not How It Was: Memoir Writers on Pushing Back Against Expected Narratives” panel (AWP Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Halls D & E)

12:00pm: Chris Abani appears in “Not Just Novelists: On Publishing Contemporary African Poets” (Marquis Salon 6); Ruthanna Emrys and Kij Johnson join panel “The Infinite in the Finite: One Hundred Years of H.P. Lovecraft’s Legacy” (Liberty Salon I, J, and K); Dinty W. Moore appears in “The Multiheaded Beast: Challenging Genre in Creative Nonfiction” (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Kelly Luce appears on “A Field Guide for the Craft of Fiction: Finding Structure” (Virginia Barber Middleton Stage); Christa Parravani joins panel “Write Your Memoir like a Novel” (Room 202A)

Also at 1:30pm: Gayle Brandeis joins panel “Speaking of the Dead: Craft & Ethics in Nonfiction” (Archives - Marriot Marquis)

Also at 3:00pm: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich appears on “The New New New Journalism: Reporting with the I” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Deb Olin Unferth joins teaching roundtable “ R239. Together with All That Could Happen” (Marquis Salon 12 & 13); Meghan Daum appears on “Mommy Dearest/Daughter Darling: Putting Words in Her Mouth” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Joy Harjo and Amy Stolls join panel “Transforming Adverse Audiences to Verse: Lessons Learned from the NEA Big Read” (Room 102B); Joy Castro appears on “Celebrating 15 Years of American Lives: A University of Nebraska Press Reading” (Room 203AB)

4:30pm: Michael Byers joins the “Science in Literary and Mainstream Fiction: A New Wave” panel (Room 101)

6:00pm: Simone Zelitich appears in “Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus” (Room 204C)

9:00am: Gayle Brandeis, Caroline Levitt, and Christa Parravani appear on “Can You Go Home Again?” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Rachel Dewoskin joins panel “Home: A Four-Letter Word” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Julia Fierro appears on “A Novelist’s Job: The Realities, Joys, and Challenges” (Room 203AB); Kristen Dombek appears on “Shape-Shifting and Writers' Centers” (Room 204C)

10:30am: Yusef Komunyakaa appears on “Outward in Larger Terms: Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems” (Marquis Salon 5); Thrity Umrigar appears on, “Writing the Dual Self: Opening Spaces for Hybrid Identities” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8); Nayomi Munaweera joins panel  "I’ve Never Heard of That Country: Sri Lankan American Writers on Shaping an Emerging Literary Identity” (Monument-Marriott Marquis); Deb Olin Unferth appears on “Novels and Short Stories: How a Narrative Finds Its Form” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Anne Finger joins panel “Body of Work: Exploring Disability, Creativity, and Inclusivity “ (Room 203AB); Helen Phillips gives a reading on “Crafty: Four City University of New York MFA Graduates Read from Their Work” (Room 204AB)

12:00pm: Tyler McMahon joins panel “Peace Corps Writers: Crossing Borders, Spanning Genres” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Daniel Torday does a reading for the West Branch 40th Anniversary Reading (Marquis Salon 3 & 4); Amy Stolls appears on “Advice to Nonprofit Organizations Seeking Funding from the NEA” (Room 102B)

1:30pm: James Thomas appears on “From Flash Fiction to Microfiction: How Many Words Are Enough?” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4); Rakesh Satyal joins panel “Beyond the Book Deal: What Really Happens When a Publisher Signs Up Your Book” (Marquis Salon 6); Joy Castro appears on “Latina Memoir: Writing a New Chapter of the American Experience” ( Liberty Salon M); Brin-Jonathan Butler appears on “The Art of Rendering Sports into Writing, a Multigenre Discussion” (Monument-Marriott Marquis); Lisa Roney appears on “Foremothers: Southern Women Writers” (Liberty Salon I, J, & K); Kathleen Rooney joins panel “Surviving the End Times: Finishing a First, Second, or Fifth Book” (Marquis Salon 6)

3:00pm: Margot Livesey appears on “The Village of Your Novel” (Room 207B); Amy Stolls joins panel “Conversation about the Economy of Art (the Gift, the Market, the Puzzle)” (Room 202B)

4:30pm: Caroline Bock appears on “Young Adult Literature: A Political and Social Revolution” (Liberty Salon L)

6:00pm: Simone Zelitch joins panel “Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus” (Room 204C)

9:00am: Alice Anderson appears on “Social Media: Breaking Barriers for the Marginalized, the Remote, and the Academic Outsider” (Room 204C); Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich appears on “Murder She Wrote: Women Writers on Writing Violence” (Liberty Salon I, J, & K); Derek Nikitas appears on “A PhD Program in an MFA World” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8)

10:30am: Caroline Bock joins panel “Get in Formation: Form in Young Adult Literature” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Traci L. Jones and Sophfronia Scott appear on “Writing White Characters” (Archives-Marriott Marquis); Kyoko Mori appears on “Does Gender Matter? Wrestling with Identity and Form in the Golden Age of Women’s Essays” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Frank X. Walker appears on “Subverting Reality: Using Real People in Fictionalized Settings” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4)

12:00pm: Geoffrey Brock appears on “What's Found in Translation” (Marquis Salon 12 & 13); Vicki Hendricks appears on “Such Mean Stories: Women Writers Get Gritty” (Room 202A); Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Pinsky appear on “21st-Century Troubadours” (Ballroom B); Helen Phillips joins panel “Writing the Abyss: Turning Grim Reality into Good Fiction” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Irina Reyn appears on “Immigrants/Children of Immigrants: A Nontraditional Path to a Writing Career” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P)

1:30pm: David Odhiambo appears on “Narratives of Immigration and Displacement” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Lisa Roney joins panel “Practicum and Beyond: Publishing Courses and Literary Citizenship” (Marquis Salon 6); Laurel Snyder appears on “No Easy Readers: On the Art and Craft of Writing for Children” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4)

3:00pm: Garth Greenwell joins panel “Socially Conscious Fiction: Writing That Can Change the World”  (Liberty Salon L); Louis Bayard appears on “Wayfaring Stranger: Writing Away from Our Experience” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8)

4:30pm: Sarah Blake, Sarah Domet, and Kathleen Rooney join panel “Attempting the Impossible: Strategies for Writing Creative Biography” (Room 101); Geoffrey Brock joins “Us & Them: A Writer/Translator Reading “ (Marquis Salon 6)

MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS AT MIAMI BOOK FAIR!

A lot of our authors are going to be at Miami Book Fair this week! Read on to discover who you can celebrate literature and reading with.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

6PM: Sarit Yishai-Levi on The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (Auditorium)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

10:30AM: Box Brown on Tetris (MAGIC Screening Room) 11:30AM: Gene Luen Yang on Secret Coders (Chapman Conference Center)

12:30PM: George O’Connor on Apollo (Room 2106); Faith Erin Hicks on Nameless City (Room 3314)

6:00PM: Anna-Marie McLemore, Solmaz Sharif, Donika Kelly and Monica Youn appear at An Evening With the National Book Awards Nominees (Chapman Conference Center)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19

10:30AM: Faith Erin Hicks appears on “Brave New Worlds: Building Comics Universes” (MAGIC Screening Room) 11AM: Solmaz Sharif, Donika Kelly and Monica Youn appear on “Award Winning Readings: National Book Award Nominees: Poetry” (Room 3314); Aleksandr Hemon appears on “Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on Family” (Room 8201); Lucie Whitehouse appears on “Thrillers: A Reading” (Room 8203)

12PM: George O’Connor appears on “New Takes on Tales Retold” (MAGIC Screening Room); Jonathan Balcombe appears on “As Above, Below: Two Scientists on the Heavens and the Seas” (Room 8202) 12:30PM: Anna-Marie McLemore appears on “Award-Winning Readings: National Book Award Nominees: Young People’s Literature” (Room 3314); Craig Pittman appears on “In a Sunshine State of Mind” (Room 8203) 1PM: Ross King and his editor appear on “Claude Monet’s the Water Lilies” (Chapman Conference Center); Ision Hutchinson appears on “Post-Revolution Caribbean Poetry: A Reading” (Room 6100) 2PM: Faith Erin Hicks appears on “Adventure is Around the Corner” (Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium); George O’Connor appears on “Of Myths and Monsters! (MDC Live Arts Lab); Jennine Capo Crucet appears on “New Lives” (Room 8302) 2:30PM: George O’Connor and Gene Luen Yang appear on “Play to Win” (MAGIC Screening Room) 3PM: Faith Erin Hicks appears on “Unlocking Secret Histories” (Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium); Irina Reyn appears on “Historical Novels: A Reading” (Room 8201)

6:30PM: Bernie Sanders presents Our Revolution (Chapman Conference Center)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20

10AM: A Morning with the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang (Room 2106); Monica Youn appears on “Poems” (Room 6100) 11AM: Ben Katchor appears on “Spotlight on Best American Comics” (MAGIC Screening Room) 11:30AM: Dr. Peter D. Kramer appears on “The Science of the Mind” (Chapman Conference Center)

12PM: Leigh Bardugo appears on “Dark Forces Breed Complex Villains” (MDC Live Arts Lab) 12:30PM: Sarah Glidden appears on “Investigative History: Comics That Uncover” (MAGIC Screening Room); Aaron Thier appears on “Strange New Worlds” (Room 8201); Angela Palm appears on “Home is Where the Heart Is” (Room 8203); Carol Anderson appears on “Racism in America” (Room 8302) 1PM: Fernanda Santos appears on “In the Heartland” (Room 3209) 2PM: Emily Witt appears on “Sex and the Modern Girl” (Room 8202); Ari Berman appears on “American Revolutions of the 20th Century” (Room 2106); Sharon Guskin appears on “Happy Families Are All Alike” (Room 8201) 3PM: An Afternoon with Susan Faludi (Chapman Conference Center); Rowan Jacobsen appears on “Delicious Dish” (Kitchen Stadium); An Afternoon with Media Sensation Luvvie Ajayi (Room 3209) 3:30PM: Ben Katchor appears on “Chronicling the Urban Landscape” (MAGIC Screening Room); John Pipkin appears on “Three Novels of Science” (Room 8201) 4:30PM: An Afternoon with Aleksandar Hemon (Auditorium)

Editor Caroline Zancan ALWAYS matches her outfits to her galleys