Intimidated by AWP’s mile-long events schedule? Wish you could skip to the cool, gay stuff? Well, put that Command+F down, because we’ve got the master key! Whether you’re after readings, lectures, networking socials, or panel discussions, we’ve got you covered.
The following list contains a mix of official AWP events collected from the 2024 AWP Conference Schedule as well as off-site events sourced through Lambda team research and through submissions to an events form created in January. Please contact us if you believe your event should be on here, and we’ll be happy to add it. (A special thank you to poet and writer KB Brookins for their consolidation of trans-inclusive off-site events taking place during this year’s AWP.)
Please note: To help you plan your perfect AWP, we have sorted official and offsite events chronologically by time and date. Please refer to the headings and subheadings to guide yourself through the conference schedule hour by hour. All Virtual AWP events have been prerecorded and will be available to watch from 2/7/24-3/7/24 unless livestreamed or stated otherwise.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- V112. VIRTUAL: Queer & Trans Asians Writing as Rebellion by Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- V115. VIRTUAL: Toward a Romani Women’s Canon
- V119. VIRTUAL: Writing a Play or Musical on a Real Person
- V120. VIRTUAL: Writing Beyond Bone: Black and Brown Disabled Poetics
- V121. VIRTUAL: Writing Queer Stories for the Stage
- V123. VIRTUAL: Writing, Translating, and Publishing Queer Ukrainian Literature
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Offsite Events:
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- T113. Queering Kansas: LGBTQ+ Writers in the Heartland
- T116. Social Justice on the Page: How Writing and Activism Feed Each Other
- T126. A New Canon: Five Writers Remaking the American West
- T129. Speaking Mosaics: Hybrid Narratives & the Prism of Identity
Thursday, February 8, 2024
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
Thursday, February 8, 2024
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- T173. Queer As In: A Reading of Debut Trans and Nonbinary Poets
- T175. Centering the Margin: Editors on Editing Anthologies
Thursday, February 8, 2024
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- T209. Revision as Trans* Praxis
- T210. Feeling Heard in a World that Wants to Silence Us: LGBTQIA+ Rep in Young Adult
Thursday, February 8, 2024
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- T218. Building Writing Collectives that Empower and Support Outside the Institution
- T236. Queer Speculation: Transing Genre, Transing Gender
- T243. Publishing as Activism: Amplifying Marginalized Voices
Thursday, February 8, 2024
5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m
Official AWP Events:
Thursday, February 8, 2024
5:00 pm to 7:00 p
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m
Official AWP Events:
Thursday, February 8, 2024
7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- F112. Queer Architectures: New Models for Memoir
- F129. Our Souths: Curating Spaces Against BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Erasure
- F131. Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment and the Nonhuman in Trans Narratives
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- F141. Translation as Poetics, Sponsored by ALTA
- F146. “Yes, And”: A Bisexual Exploration of Genre
- F155. f/Lawless: Writing Queer Sex
- F157. Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature: A Reading
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- F167. Say Gay Today: Writing in the Backward Climate of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
- F179. Creating Community Residencies to Celebrate Queer Writers
- F182. Exhausted & Overwhelmed: Attempting Queer Joy in 2024
- F184A. Meredith Talusan & Kai Cheng Thom in Conversation with Maya Shanbhag Lang, Sponsored by the Authors Guild
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Offsite Events:
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- F209. Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry
- F212. Generations: A Reading & Conversation Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts & The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- F213. Lead with Love: Queer Voices in Literature with Red Hen Press
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- F220. Widening the Circle: Queer/Trans SWANA Writers on Navigating Space and Self
- F225. Transformation: Creating Change Through Collaboration
- F236. The Braided Essay as Change Agent
- F239. Chosen Family: Making Kinship Among Queer Poets
Friday, February 9, 2024
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Offsite Events:
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- S117. Writers Who Drag
- S119. Una Mujer Peligrosa: Celebrating the Queer Work and Life of tatiana de la tierra
- S128. We Belong: People of Color Accessing, Critiquing & Reshaping Artist Residencies
- S134. (Trans)cend: Trans Poetics in the Age of Anti-transness
Saturday, February 10, 2024
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
Official AWP Events:
- S138. Be Gay, Do Crime: Teaching Queer and Trans Poetics in Dangerous Times
- S152. Body Terrorism: Poems of Resistance, Defiance, and Survival
- S154. Writing Trans Sex
Saturday, February 10, 2024
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- S164. Beyond Belief: Queer Religious (and Post-Religious) Poetry
- S176. Yes We Exist, America: Queer South Asian Stories & Why They Matter
- S178. Transgender Nonfiction: Memoir and Essays Beyond the Transition Narrative
- S180. When the Old Names Fail Us
- S185. Futures for SWANA Poetry: Mizna Hosts Iman Mersal & Noor Naga in Conversation
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- S191. The Publishing Process and Interventions for Equity and Inclusion
- S196. Beyond Gay and Bi: Creating Diversity in Queer Characters
- S202. Scriptural Entanglements: Poets Writing Into, Through, and Against Sacred Texts
- S208. Transcending Trauma: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Sentimentality and Reductivism
- S211. The Trans Fantastic: Craft, Themes, Reception
- S218. Queer Parenthood and Family-Making: A Reading
- S219. Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Alumni
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m.
Official AWP Events:
- S221. Crafting Counternarratives in the Age of Anti-AAPI Hate
- S224. Not Just Surviving: Queer Poets Thriving in the Red
- S225. Queer Stories: Writing Our Way into Belonging
- S234. Nonbinary and Genderqueer Writers Discuss Working in a Time of Transphobic Crisis
- S239. How We Stay Whole: Celebrating Complex Identities in Our Writing
