Writing Events and Information Sessions

AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, MO

The 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, Missouri includes events taking place in-person at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri and prerecorded virtual events that will be available to watch on-demand online. Nearing the conference dates, we will email with a list of SLC MFA Writing faculty, students, and alumni participating. Registration is $70 for university students (before Feb. 6) and full info can be found here: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview

The MFA Writing program/ Lumina Journal will also be at booth #1304 in the Bookfair. Come by our booth to receive colloquium credit (virtual attendance also qualifies), grab some candy and free program-branded merch, and take a break from the conference with some familiar faces!

AWP 2024: Writing Institute Reading

6:30-8:00pm (doors open at 6:00pm)

Location: Whiskers Cat Cafe & Coffeehouse, 3705-3707 SW Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64111

Enter on 37th Street (6-minute drive from the convention center)

Join the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College for a spirited reading at Kansas City’s beloved cat cafe! We’re delighted to welcome writers Serkan Görkemli, Catherine LaSota and our own Ava Robinson & more for this feline-themed reading & AWP off-site event. Enjoy coffee and snacks, meet fellow writers, and hop over to the cat cafe side to meet some literary kitties if you so please. Get ready for the purrfect literary evening!

Zoom livestream registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rc-qtrDgjHtAFCbWs75NHUfuyCrQKRbq1

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Zoom livestream registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-uuqjkrH91CRy0b4ue7XsHAxcxOReu5

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Zoom livestream registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkf-2oqDIsHdbPgcabwZAfalSWyHtwvaou

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MFA Writing & The Writing Institute: Margo Steines Memoir Reading
6:00 - 7:00 PM
In-person only
Slonim Living Room

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Katie Kitamura: Play and Performance
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Hybrid event
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Theatre 
Zoom registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlcOmqqD0jH9A1tj7b2WAElb_GZlA3nzVc

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. In France, it won the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and was longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Zoom registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudOmuqz4sH91-2WLt1_o8o5m5mRW-KgTF

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Free and open to the public, this year our festival will happen on April 19th- 21st, here on campus! We are proud to feature readings, a panel, craft talks, and generative sessions with acclaimed poets TBA soon. For more information please email us at slcpoetryfest@gmail.com or follow our social media pages (@slcpoetryfest), and RSVP for each event through our eventbrite. 

Jami Nakamura Lin will discuss comparing “rhetorical time” to “story time” in prose, the different levels of speed and how they function, how time in written narrative differs from time as we see it unfold through movies, tv, etc, how speed relates to the speculative, and how writers can use and twist time to a piece's advantage.

Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the illustrated speculative memoir The Night Parade (Mariner Books/HarperCollins and Scribe UK, October 24, 2023). A former Catapult columnist, she’s been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Passages North, and other publications. She has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers Conference, We Need Diverse Books, and more. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Pennsylvania State University and lives in the Chicago area.