2022 AWP Conference & Bookfair

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Convention Center 

March 23–26, 2022

 

The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration. The AWP Conference & Bookfair has always been a place of connection, reunion, and joy, and we are excited to see the writing community come together again in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2022.

 

In light of the tremendous success of the virtual 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair, AWP will incorporate a virtual component to #AWP22. In addition to offering an in-person event schedule in Philadelphia from March 23-26, 2022, we will also offer an array of prerecorded virtual events.

 

To learn more about the conference to see the complete schedule of events visits, https://awp22.us3.pathable.com

 

I will be part of this panel, Documenting the Undocumented: Writing the US/Mexico Border across Genres

 

Time: 9:10 AM - 10:25 AM PDT on Friday, March 25

 

Place: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level or Online.

 

Moderating by Jennifer De Leon. 

Speakers: René Colato Laínez, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Ricardo Nuila, Aida Salazar

 

The border. ICE. The wall. Asylum. Human cages. How can we truthfully represent the current immigration crisis at the border in our writing? What are political and philosophical concerns, particularly when authors inherit stories they are in effect still living and when readers might expect a happy ending? Authors across categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult and children’s books—talk frankly about the struggles and benefits of writing la frontera.