AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 college and university creative writing programs, and 150 writers’ conferences and centers. Its mission is to amplify the voices of writers and the academic programs and organizations that serve them while championing diversity and excellence in creative writing.
AWP celebrates the writers serving as mentors in the Fall 2021 season of the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. AWP selected 20 mentors for this session based on their experience, their willingness to serve, and the needs prevalent in the mentee applications. Mentors were each given several strong applications to choose from and selected their own mentees.
I am honored and delighted to have been chosen as a mentor for this cohort. My mentee is Lorinda Toledo who is working on her debut novel. Our initial meetings have been very lively and fruitful. She is a talented writer who—no doubt—will complete her novel and get it published. I am so impressed by her tenacity, hard work, and talent.
To learn about the newest mentors, visit here. And to meet the new mentees, go here.
If you would like to
volunteer as a mentor, applications are now being accepted for our sixteenth
season, which will begin in February 2022.
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