AWP Conference

The annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP) is in Seattle in 2023, and StoryStudio will be there!

Find us at booth T520 in the Bookfair Hall. We have lots of faculty & members on panels throughout the conference.
PLUS: we’re hosting an off-site event on Friday, March 10.

Join Us for Our Off-Site Party!

Battle of the Craft Experts

Friday, March 10 • 7pm – 10pm
Location: Barboza Bar
925 E Pike St
Lineup:
Matthew Salesses
Matt Bell
Robin Black
Gayle Brandeis
Beth Nguyen
with Emcee: Rebecca Makkai

Entry is Free! Books of participating authors will be on sale via Elliott Bay Books.

Where to Find Us in Seattle

Join StoryStudio Instructors At This Northwestern University Reading

StoryStudio Friends and Instructor Signing Schedule

• Juan Martinez — Friday, 10 am – 11 am at Arizona University Press, Exhibit #620
   
• Kathleen Rooney — Friday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am at Texas Review Press, 
  Exhibit 601
   
• Gayle Brandeis — Saturday, 1 pm – 2 pm at University of Nevada, Reno-Lake Tahoe low residency MFA, Exhibit T104
   
• Jameka Williams — Saturday, 2 pm – 2:30 pm at University of Wisconsin Press, Exhibit 1222

StoryStudio Friends and Instructors Panels and Sessions

(Unless otherwise noted, all panels and sessions are being held at the Summit Building of the Seattle Convention Center. View the full conference schedule here.)

Wednesday, March 8

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

• Virtual panel with Instructor Vu Tran: The Path through the Swamp: Revision Strategies and Processes
   
• Virtual panel with Instructor Aram Mrjoian: We Are All Armenian Launch
   

Thursday March 9

9 am – 10:15 am

• Panel including Instructor Emily Maloney: Health and Illness Narratives: Harnessing Medical Memoir to Impact a Broken System, Room 331
   
• Panel including StoryStudio Studio Manager Czaerra Ucol: The Digital Sala: Radical Diasporic Filipinx Poetics, Room 340-342
   
• Panel including StoryStudio Artist Director Rebecca Makkai: The Internet and Creativity: Fatal Distraction or Turbo Charger?, Room 345-346
   
• Panel including Instructor Chaitali Sen: For Whom Do You Write?: Four Immigrant Writers on Their Audiences, Room 447-448
   
• Panel including StoryBoard instructor Sequoia Nagamatsu and Essay Collection In A Year Alum Sejal Shah: Grieving in the Asian Diaspora, Signature Room

10:35 am – 11:50 am

• Panel including Author Spotlight Series guest Lan Samantha Chang: The Week-Long Fiction Course: Best Practices for Conference Workshops, Room 347-348
   
• Panel including Instructor Erika Sanchez: Crafting Voice in YA Fiction, Room 443-444
   
• Panel including Novel In A Year Alum Tina Jenkins Bell: Writing through the Pain: Faces of Chronic Illness in Contemporary Literature, Room 445-446

12:10 pm – 1:25 pm

• Panel including Instructor Gina Frangello: Out of the Boneyard: Keeping Dead Manuscripts Alive, Room 447-448

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

• Panel including Geek-Out Book Club participant Katie Gutierrez: Women Writing Crime, Room 435-436
   
• Panel including Core Faculty Member C. Russell Price: Do I Contain Multitudes? Who’s Asking?, Room 445-446

3:20 pm – 4:35 pm

• Panel including Instructor Chigozie Obioma: Blue Flower Arts Presents Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kwame Dawes, and Chigozie Obioma, Ballroom 1

Friday 3/10

9 am – 10:15 am 

• Session hosted by Instructor James Tate Hill: Adjunct Discussion Forum, Room 338-339
   
• Panel with StoryStudio Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai: I Wish I’d Known: Advice for Navigating the Publishing World, Room 427-429
   
• Panel with Battle of the Craft Experts participant Matt Bell: The Sentence Is the Story: Reading, Writing, and Revising for Style and Sound, Terrace Suite II

1:45 pm – 3 pm

• Panel with Core Faculty Member Juan Martinez: The Twenty-First Century Horror Novel, Room 328-329
   
• Panel with Core Faculty Member Sheree Greer: The Small Press Author’s Guide to Cultivating Community and Publicity, Room 340-342
   
• Panel with PubCrawl Panelist Nancy Johnson: Writing the Sophomore Novel: Was My Debut a Fluke?!, Room 347-348

3:20 pm – 4:35 pm 

• Panel with Core Faculty Member Joe Scapellato: The Art of the Handout, Room 440-442

Saturday 3/11

9:00 am – 10:15 am

• Panel with Instructor Gina Frangello: Neither the Madonna nor Mommy Dearest: Why and How to Write Real Mothers, Rooms 345-346

10:35 am – 11:50 am

• Panel with Novel In A Year alum Dawn Tasaka Steffler: The Long-Term Book Program as MFA Alternative, Room 443-444 (Dawn will be discussing StoryStudio’s Novel In A Year program at this session)

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

• Panel with Instructors Jessamine Chan and Sequoia Nagamatsu: The Future Is Now—Near Future Speculative Fiction, Rooms 343-344
   
• Panel with Instructor Billy Lombardo: Show Me the Money: New and Creative Ways to Fund Your Writing Life, Rooms 427-429

3:20 pm – 4:35 pm

• Panel with Instructor Cleyvis Natera: We’re All Imposters Here: On Writing with Imposter Syndrome, Rooms 328-329