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AWP Conference: “What Exactly Do You Do?: Jobs as Guides into Our Characters’ Worlds”

In Other People’s Trades, Primo Levi describes his “vagabond and dilettantish curiosity” about jobs other than his own. This panel features writers who have thought deeply about what their characters do for work—at times fulfilling, at times dangerous, occasionally invented, and usually calling for arcane knowledge, skills, and habits of mind. From sponge diver to film professor, physicist to umbrologist, our characters’ professions afford us uncanny access into their inner and outer worlds. With Tim Horvath, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Joy Baglio.

Room 2505AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2

on February 5 2024· Tagged: awp, AWP24, conference, Joy Baglio, Kansas City, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Tim Horvath

Switchyard Tulsa: “Researching Into the Voice: The Great Believers and Approaching History As An Outsider”

Switchyard Festival Tulsa, OK

May 30th, 5pm @ Promenade Ballroom

Included in the Ideas Track & Full Festival Pass

Rebecca Makkai, “Researching into the Voice: The Great Believers and Approaching History as an Outsider” 

Sponsored by TU’s Department of English and Creative Writing

6 days of music, literature and ideas

Switchyard is a national festival of art and intellect featuring 40 keynote speakers and local and national performance artists – based in the heart of Downtown Tulsa.

Switchyard will invite people to cross the tracks that once divided this city to explore our complicated histories, seek new points of connection and activate the transformative power of art. In this inaugural year, we’ll focus on attempts to ban, censor or suppress challenging ideas—new and old. This will mean digging into the past, imagining alternative identities and dreaming of rich new futures.

on May 19 2023· Tagged: conference, discussion, Festival, in person, keynote, music, oklahoma, Panel, Rebecca Makkai, speakers, switchyard, The Great Believers, tulsa

The Muse & The Marketplace:”Why Do We Do This?” Keynote Panel

Victor LaValle (He/Him)Keynote Panelist

Rebecca Makkai (She/Her)Keynote Panelist

Maggie Shipstead (She/Her)Keynote Panelist

on May 19 2023· Tagged: conference, digital, grub street, keynote, maggie shipstead, networking, online, Panel, publishing, summit, the muse & the marketplace, victor lavalle, virtual

Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference: The Origins of The Original

The Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference is back! This year, the conference is entirely online again so you can join us from anywhere in the world. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, please save the dates!

The conference is hosted by the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies MA in Writing and  MFA in Prose and Poetry programs.

on May 20 2022· Tagged: class, conference, conferences, course, education, Northwester Summer Writers' Conference, northwestern, online, Rebecca Makkai, virtual event, workshop, writing, Writing Workshop