#SplitLipFAM at #AWP20
Are you heading to the 2020 AWP Conference in San Antonio? So are we! We’ll see you at table T1256.
But we won’t exclusively see you at the table—our staff and contributors are ALL OVER this conference! Below you’ll find every event where someone from the #SplitLipFAM is presenting or reading—although we’ve undoubtedly missed some, so we’ll continue to update this page as the conference approaches. If we’ve published you before and we’re missing your event, please email us: splitlipthemag@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 4
7:00pm, Blue Star Brewery
First Night Fete, sponsored by Epiphany, Evergreen Review, Pigeon Pages & Words Without Borders
Featuring memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc
7:00pm, The Twig Book Shop
Neon Lit Alumni Reading
Featuring former poetry editor Marianne Chan and flash contest judge Juan Martinez
7:00pm, Retox
Rock and Roll Reading
Featuring contributing editor Chris Gonzalez and contributors Jennifer Wortman, Beth Gilstrap, and Melissa Ragsly
8:00pm, Hotel Havana
A Reading with Waxwing, Newfound & Anomaly
Featuring contributors Dorothy Chan and W. Todd Kaneko
Thursday, March 5
9:00am, room 210A
Lit & Luz: MAKE-ing Interdisciplinary Partnerships On and Off the Page
Featuring contributor Kathleen Rooney
9:00am, room 217B
A Place at the Table: Nurturing an Inclusive Literary Ecosystem
Featuring contributor Kaj Tanaka
9:00am, room 303
Worry About It Later: Strategies to Finish What You Start
Featuring contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer and flash contest judge Juan Martinez
10:35am, room 006D
Difficult Muses and Damaged Gods: On Writing Birthed from Darkness
Featuring contributor Natanya Ann Pulley
10:35am, room 209
The Evolution of Sudden to Micro Fiction: The Anthologies that Got It Started
Featuring contributors Venita Blackburn and W. Todd Kaneko
10:35am, room 006A
Intentionally Inclusive: Growing Your Independent Press, Journal, & Org.
Featuring contributing editor Chris Gonzalez and contributors Cortney Lamar Charleston and Dave Housley
12:10pm, room 006C
Give It a Name: Mental Health and the Writing Life
Featuring contributor Sarah Fawn Montgomery
12:10pm, room 214B
The Novella Workshop: Advocating an Alternative MFA Apprenticeship Model
Featuring reviews/interviews editor Clancy McGilligan
12:10pm, Ballroom C1
A Reading & Conversation with Shira Erlichman, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Brenda Shaughnessy, Moderated by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Sponsored by Alice James Books
Featuring contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston
12:10pm, room 007C
Teaching in the Confederacy
Featuring contributors Chris Gavaler and Lesley Wheeler
1:45pm, room 006A
Managing Literary Magazine Editorial Transitions
Featuring flash editor Maureen Langloss and contributor Dorothy Chan
1:45pm, room 214B
New and Collected: A Trans/Non-Binary Reading
Featuring poetry contest judge Paige Lewis
1:45pm, room 212
(Un)Forgotten Women: Blending Research and Lyricism to Reclaim Lost History
Featuring contributor Kathleen Rooney
2:00pm, table T1255
[PANK] Author Signing
Featuring contributor Melissa Ragsly
4:00pm, Candlelight Cafe
A Reading with Nashville Review, Zone 3 & Grist
Featuring contributor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
4:30pm, The Amp Room
Debut-palooza!
Featuring contributor Megan Giddings
4:30pm, Hemisfair Park
pizzAWPizza
Featuring reviews/interviews editor Clancy McGilligan, former poetry editor Marianne Chan, and flash contest judge Juan Martinez
5:00pm, Alamo Beer
In Our Other Lives We Were The Companions: An AWP Book Party
Featuring former fiction editor Katie Flynn
5:00pm, J&O’s Bar
Offsite Reading for Emerging POC Voices
Featuring contributing editor Chris Gonzalez and contributor Megan Giddings
5:30pm, Zombies Bar
XRAY @ AWP
Featuring contributors Josh Denslow, Chloe N. Clark, Rachel Mans McKenny, Kathryn McMahon, Kim Magowan, and Michelle Ross
6:00pm, The Amp Room
Submerged: A Poetry Reading Hosted by Sinking City
Featuring contributor Donna Vorreyer
7:00pm, The Barrel Room at Blue Star Brewing
A Reading with Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, & McSweeney’s
Featuring memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc
7:00pm, Cherrity Bar
Split/Lip Press + 7.13 + Alternating Current Reading
Featuring contributors Jennifer Wortman, Josh Denslow, Melissa Matthewson, and Kim Magowan
8:00pm, The Web House
The Cheburashka Collective Reading
Featuring contributor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
8:00pm, The Bonham Exchange
SAQUEERAF, sponsored by The Boiler, The Journal, Southeast Review
Featuring contributors Megan Giddings, Dorothy Chan, Tatiana Ryckman, and Zach Linge
Friday, March 6
9:00am, room 209
Conflicts of Interest in Literary Criticism
Featuring contributor Ilana Masad
10:35am, room 218
“If You Want to Know What We Are”: A Reading of Filipinx American Literature
Featuring former poetry editor Marianne Chan and contributor Mark Galarrita
10:35am, room 206B
The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins
Featuring memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc
10:35am, room 007B
Song or Sting: Choosing Art Over Fame
Featuring contributor W. Todd Kaneko
10:35am, room 214A
Writers of Color, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ, Confront the Holocaust
Featuring contributor Sara Lippmann
12:10pm, room 303
Are You F*ing Kidding Me? Self-Care in the Face of Classroom Trauma
Featuring contributor Sreshtha Sen
12:10pm, table T1331
The Cupboard Pamphlet Book Signing
Featuring memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc
12:10pm, The Michener Center for Writers Stage, Exhibit Halls 3-4
Dare to Imagine 2020: Electing to Read, Write, and Publish
Featuring contributor Raven Leilani
12:10pm, room 206A
Latinx Poets: Speaking from El Corazon
Featuring contributor Ariel Francisco
1:00pm, table 2212
Diode Editions Book Signing
Featuring contributor Dorothy Chan
1:45pm, room 217A
Best Practices for Plot-Making: The Inevitable and the Surprising
Featuring contributing editor Chris Gonzalez
1:45pm, table T1331
The Cupboard Pamphlet Book Signing
Featuring reader Sara Ryan
1:45pm, room 301
From Unpublished Writer to Book Deal: How to Finish Writing and Get a Book Deal
Featuring flash contest judge Juan Martinez
1:45pm, room 205
Who Are We Writing Difference For?
Featuring contributing editor Tyrese Coleman and contributor Chaya Bhuvaneswar
3:20pm, room 304
The Changing Shape of Immigrant Literature
Featuring contributor Chaya Bhuvaneswar
3:20pm, room 007C
Queer Latinx Men and Vulnerability
Featuring reader JJ Peña
3:20pm, room 217B
Small Press Book, Big Ideas
Featuring former poetry editor Marianne Chan
3:20pm, room 007B
Song or Sting: Choosing Art over Fame
Featuring contributor W. Todd Kaneko
4:00pm, Carmens de la Calle
Fresh Off the Press
Featuring contributor Beth Gilstrap
5:00pm, Carver Community Cultural Center
The BreakBeat Poets Present: Too Much Midnight
Featuring contributor Nate Marshall
6:00pm, Hemisfair Promenade
TriQuarterly Reading
Featuring contributor Allegra Hyde and flash contest judge Juan Martinez
6:30pm, The Good Kind
Diode Editions Reading
Featuring contributor Dorothy Chan
7:00pm, Radius Center
A Reading with Construction Magazine, Birdcoat Quarterly, Four Way Review, INCH, & New South
Featuring contributors Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and W. Todd Kaneko
7:00pm, Canyon Café
Kerpunkt Press and Okay Donkey Reading
Featuring reader Jules Archer, assistant flash editor Amy Stuber, contributing editor Chris Gonzalez, and contributors Chloe N. Clark, Kim Magowan, and Michelle Ross
7:00pm, The Parish
A reading with Kristen Arnett, Rion Amilcar Scott, Elisa Gabbert, Sarah Rose Etter, Vivian Lee, and Sadie Dupuis
Featuring contributor Elisa Gabbert
9:00pm, Cherrity Bar
Strange Theater Fabulist Reading
Featuring contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer and contributors Jennifer Wortman and Chloe N. Clark
Saturday, March 7
9:00am, room 212
Iowa Short Fiction Award Series 50th Anniversary Reading
Featuring contributor Allegra Hyde
9:00am, room 006C
Print vs Online Journals: Editors Navigate a Changing Literary Landscape
Featuring contributor Dorothy Chan
10:35am, room 214D
An Editorial Perspective on Experimental Fiction
Featuring contributor Megan Giddings
10:35am, room 006D
New Nature: Rewriting Place in the Anthropocene
Featuring managing editor Wendy Oleson
10:35am, room 301
Poets to Prose: Finding Footing in Multiple Genres and Industries
Featuring contributor Ross Gay
1:00pm, The Wick Exhibit
Book Signing
Featuring contributor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
1:45pm, room 216A
Comics Editors & Literary Journals
Featuring contributors Chris Gavaler and Zach Linge
1:45pm, room 214A
Narrative Disruption: A Catalyst for Meaningful Subversion
Featuring contributors Melissa Matthewson and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
1:45pm, room 304
Small Press Success: A Business Primer for Both Authors + Publishers”
Featuring contributor Kristine Langley Mahler
1:45pm, room 007C
The Tabula Rasa Conundrum: How to Thrive Despite High Staff Turnover Rates
Featuring contributor Dave Housley
3:20pm, room 211
Out of Sight: Teaching Form and Writing Blind
Featuring contributor Jill Talbot
5:00pm, Cherrity Bar
Read in Tooth and Claw: A Chorus of New Writing about Animals
Featuring managing editor Wendy Oleson, flash editor Maureen Langloss, and social media coordinator Becky Robison