Events

If you’re in need of a little inspiration, head to one of these fall conferences and festivals where you can connect with those in your tribe.

October is Literary Horror Month at Pen Parentis!

The Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the US, is happening soon!

Join women writers from across America at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.

For some late summer book celebrations, stop by one of these festivals!

The SCBWI summer conference is coming up soon in Los Angeles.

Reviews Editor Camille-Yvette Welsch went to AWP 2015 to confer about the VIDA numbers, and she left inspired for change.

If you’re still finding it difficult to imagine the energy released by 12,000 people in one facility, I encourage you to picture one word: hunger.

Permission to tell my “I story” “IIIIIIII…” the packed room of mostly women sang in unison, conducted by one of my favorite authors, Lidia Yuknavitch. “I want you to be crazy brave…” she’d said in a session titled “Breaking the Body: Women Writers Reconfiguring Creative Nonfiction Forms” at the 2015 AWP conference in Minneapolis. If […]

Literary Mama reader Jeanne Lyet Gassman shares all her ups and downs of her many visits to AWP.

Read Poetry Editorial Assistant Erin Rodoni’s experience with AWP in the past, and what she is looking forward to at this year’s conference.