AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT AWP FOSTERS LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT, ADVANCES THE ART OF WRITING
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3 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS PREFACE From Our Board Chair: David Haynes...... 2 From Our Interim Executive Director: Chloe Schwenke...... 3
PROGRAMS & SERVICES 2017 Annual Conference & Bookfair...... 4 Services...... 5 Awards & Scholarships...... 6 Publications...... 8
SUPPORTERS Friends of AWP, 2016–17...... 10 2017 Conference & Bookfair Sponsors...... 12
ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION Independent Auditor’s Report...... 14 Board & Staff...... 15 Member Institutions: Creative Writing Programs...... 16 Member Organizations: Writers’ Conferences & Centers...... 20 FROM OUR BOARD CHAIR
IN 2017, AWP marked its 50th with a gala celebration held To that end, AWP is engaged in developing the strategic in conjunction with the annual conference in Washington, plan that will guide the institution well into the next decade. DC. Former directors, long-time members, past award Our goal is to build a plan that reflects the vision and values winners, and a wide variety of stakeholders and supporters of the many stakeholders who have found a home beneath gathered in the ballroom of the Marriott Marquis to our umbrella. We welcome you to engage with us—through remember how far the organization has come and to look the regional councils, our caucuses, WC&C, CLMP, WITS, ahead toward its promising future. In addition to honoring or wherever you have found connection. You may also reach George Garrett Award Winner John Balaban, and out to any of our board or staff members with your ideas for Small Press Publisher Award Winner Coffee House, the what AWP 2025 should look like. evening also highlighted one of AWP’s newest and most I am confident that together we can envision an AWP impressive projects, our Writer-to-Writer Mentorship that will continue to cultivate the making and appreciation Program. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated of contemporary literature, while doing so in a way that in that memorable evening. embraces the wide range of voices that are essential to a vital It’s been my great honor to chair AWP’s Board of Trustees literary landscape. It will require all of us working together to during this anniversary year, and I’m proud to lead a board bring this vision to life. whose membership reflects the genuine and increasing diversity of our literary communities. The strong and David Haynes independent-minded leaders who comprise our board are Chair, AWP Board of Trustees committed to the ongoing task of keeping the organization strong and to making sure that AWP is open and welcoming to all of the writers and communities that we serve.
2 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT FROM OUR INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AWP’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY found us celebrating our impending move to Maryland. We’ve since completed our relocation to a new, beautiful, and spacious office building on the periphery of the campus of the University of Maryland, with whom we now have an association similar to our previous twenty-three-year collaboration with George Mason University in Virginia. Our new institutional support arrangement and our attractive, modern office facilities position us well as we continue to serve all who are involved in and nurtured by the contemporary arts of writing and poetry as authors, teachers, students, agents, publishers, advocates, and readers of all ages. While our physical address has changed, our commitment to our long-standing mission remains resolute and revitalized. AWP exists to foster literary achievement and to advance the art of writing as an essential component of a quality education. For us, this commitment is both professional and personal; nearly all of the staff who work at AWP are themselves writers, poets, or editors. Indeed, all who are associated with or are members of AWP share in the sensibility that literature is a source of awareness and enchantment, and a valued medium for wisdom, creativity, and joy. Our relocation has entailed several changes in AWP’s AWP plays a pivotal role, as we support writing programs staffing, but we continue to build on the solid legacy of the at over 550 colleges and universities, 150 writers’ conferences staff who no longer work at AWP, whose years of service and centers, and over 34,000 individual writers, poets, are deeply appreciated. We’ve now hired several new staff, teachers and students. Providing meaningful support at such and together with those staff who have transferred with us a level of coverage and intensity means that AWP is always from Virginia to Maryland, we continue to benefit from seeking ways to improve our reach, effectiveness, and value a dedicated, hard-working, diverse, and exceptionally to all whom we serve by constantly seeking ways to improve competent team, supported by the advice, guidance, energy, our digital outreach and content, our flagship publication and wisdom of our board. The Writer’s Chronicle (distributed to over 35,000 writers), We are positioned for success in our new offices in our Writer-to-Writer mentoring program, our award Maryland, and we are determined to build upon the progress series, our annual Survey of Creative Writing Programs, that is described in this annual report. Your continued our podcasts and blogs, and our much-beloved Annual support will be instrumental to our trajectory ahead, as Conference and Bookfair. We also continue to be engaged in we expand the quality and range of our services to the appropriate advocacy activities, ranging from our promotion literary arts. of consistently high professional standards among university writing programs, to our strategic and vigorous support Sincerely, for public funding for the arts and education through our Chloe Schwenke membership in Americans for the Arts Action Fund. Interim Executive Director
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 3 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE & BOOKFAIR
IN 2017, AWP welcomed over 12,000 writers, teachers, students, editors, publishers, and arts administrators to the Washington Convention Center for the largest and most inclusive literary conference in North America, and to help celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary.
rom February 8 to 11, Washington, DC was Poetry Review, The Authors transformed into the bustling nexus of the literary Guild, BookForum, Copper F universe. Writers and readers swarmed the convention Canyon Press, Graywolf center to attend 600 panels, discussions, readings, and Press, The Kenyon Review, receptions, including a keynote address by renowned writer Macmillan, New Directions, Azar Nafisi, and featured presentations by authors as varied The New York Review of as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alexander Chee, Ta-Nehisi Books, Penguin Random Coates, Rita Dove, Jennifer Egan, Terrance Hayes, Marlon House Speakers Bureau, James, Margo Jefferson, Valeria Luiselli, Colum McCann, the Poetry Foundation, Red Andrew Motion, Eileen Myles, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hen Press, The Rumpus, Submittable, The Sun, Tin House, Ann Patchett, Tracy K. Smith, and Jacqueline Woodson. University of Pittsburgh Press, Wave Books, and W.W. Two thousand presenters in all gave their time, talents, and Norton & Company. insights to creating the continent’s largest public square for AWP’s 2018 Conference & Bookfair took place from contemporary literature. March 7 to 10 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, The attendees included more than 3,000 students, many Florida. Featured presenters included a keynote address by of whom enjoyed free registration through the sponsorship George Saunders, and readings and lectures by Edwidge and literary partners of AWP’s member programs and Danticat, Mark Doty, Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides, organizations. Support from sponsors allowed AWP to Lauren Groff, Tyehimba Jess, Min Jin Lee, Carmen Maria keep registration rates for students at the low rate of $50, Machado, Claire Messud, Lorrie Moore, Mary Ruefle, and also provided for the expansion of the bookfair to Bob Shacochis, Virgil Suárez, and Karen Tei Yamashita. include 800 exhibitors, including many first-time exhibitors. More than 10,000 people, including 2,000 presenters, were Participating exhibitors included 826 National, American in attendance.
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AWP offers comprehensive services to members and subscribers that support writers at every stage of their careers.
SURVEY OF STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ONLINE COMMUNITY In the spring of 2017, AWP released the results of its AWP cultivates and encourages a diverse community of largest-ever survey of students and alumni at both writers online. AWP has more than 119,000 followers on undergraduate and graduate programs. The data contained social media, and engages the writing community with daily in the report is helping our member program directors posts, weekly questions, and monthly chats. We also keep our to improve and better advocate for their programs. If you members informed and connected to all AWP has to offer would like a copy of these survey results, please contact through our enewsletter, published twice a month. us at [email protected].
WEBSITE As AWP’s physical offices packed up and moved from one state to another this year, the website provided a stable online presence and will continue to do so. Receiving more than 2,700,000 pageviews this year from over 320,000 visitors, our website at awpwriter.org provides writers with useful, thought-provoking content, resources, and advice. New content was added to every section of the website this year, including: • 4 campus visit program videos • 13 spotlighted members • 18 exclusive Q&As with conference presenters • 20 podcast episodes • 27 conference videos • 64 articles on career advice, the craft of writing, pedagogy,
and appreciations AWP’s dynamic and interactive website connects writers with • 216 writer’s news pieces news, articles, podcasts, advice, awards, program directories, • 1,047 grant and award opportunities and conference information. • 2,365 jobs listings Some of our website projects this year involved a new page for the 50th Anniversary Gala and expanded user profile choices. We also further developed the behind-the-scenes website structure and databases to provide a strong and secure website.
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 5 AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
AWARD SERIES AWP sponsors the award series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. In addition to the award and publication, winners receive significant promotional support, including paid advertisements and featured readings at the conference.
The 2017 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry went to The AWP Award Series in the Novel was awarded Brynne Rebele-Henry’s Autobiography of a Wound. to Joshua Bernstein for Rachel’s Tomb. The Award The Donald Hall Prize includes a $5,500 honorarium in the Novel comes with a $2,500 honorarium and supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership publication by New Issues Press. Zachary Lazar, the Program and publication by the University of 2017 judge, wrote: “Rachel’s Tomb is a deftly ambitious Pittsburgh Press. Kim Addonizio, the judge for 2017, novel about young soldiers in the Israeli Defense wrote: “Autobiography of a Wound is a perilous Forces and the loved ones they’ve left behind. It brings journey of stone and bone and blood, goddess statue and abject, to life with great artistry a diverse cast of secular and religious Jews, trembling girl. It’s the female body, the queer body, and its writer is Arabs, Russians, and Ethiopian immigrants, soldiers, and civilians— unrelenting in her obsessive depictions of violation and damage. a complex image of Israel. The book’s absurdist humor gracefully It is also precise, elegant, and incisive (in all senses of that word). counterpoints the waste, loss, and early sorrow faced by its indelibly I could not stop reading it, and afterwards, I could not stop drawn characters.” thinking about it.” GEORGE GARRETT AWARD The 2017 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction was The award recognizes individuals who awarded to Jon Chopan for his collection Crisis have made notable donations of care, time, Hotline: Veterans Press I. The Grace Paley Prize labor, and money to support writers and includes a $5,500 honorarium supported by the their literary accomplishments. The award Amazon Literary Partnership Program as well as is named for George Garrett (1929–2008), publication by the University of Massachusetts Press. who made exceptional contributions to The judge, Sue Miller, said this about the work: his writers as a teacher, mentor, editor, “These twelve stories, each narrated by a different veteran of the friend, board member, and good spirit. As a Iraq war, divide evenly between the often near-hallucinatory events writer, teacher, mentor, editor, or inspiration, Garrett helped many of that war and the account of life back home in its aftermath. young writers who are now major contributors to contemporary Sometime sad, sometime horrifying, often hilarious—occasionally letters. The award includes a $2,000 honorarium in addition to all three simultaneously—each story bears down on moments travel, accommodations, and registration to attend AWP’s annual of such searing honesty that it lingers in the reader’s memory as conference, where the award is publicly announced and conferred. urgently as it lives on the page.” At the 2017 Annual Conference & Bookfair, during AWP’s 50th Anniversary Gala, AWP awarded its George Garrett Award for Wang Ping won the 2017 AWP Award Series in Outstanding Community Service in Literature to John Balaban. Creative Nonfiction for her bookLife of Miracles AWP Board Chair, David Haynes, said of Balaban, “He has helped along the Yangtze and Mississippi. The Creative to rescue injured children from Vietnam. He supported and Nonfiction Prize includes a $2,500 honorarium and encouraged a student through her travails with breast and kidney publication by The University of Georgia Press. The cancer. He helped another student leave communist Romania. He 201 judge Gretel Ehrlich said, “[Wang Ping’s book] helped countless students find jobs and build careers. His letters of is free-wheeling, unusual, and always charged as it nomination for this award are seasoned with place names of four or swings back and forth in time and cultures. These are mountain five continents because that’s how big his horizons are, and it’s those and river tales wound together like eels navigating the muddy global horizons to which he introduced his students. He is loved waters of political, cultural, and personal displacement and wars and admired by his students for his deep knowledge of literature waged against the human spirit. Episodes wriggle between cities and for his great knowledge of the world and its peoples.” on either side of the Pacific, China to the US and back again, from He is famous for his translations of Vietnamese poetry. He is Tiger Leaping Gorge to New York, to Tibet, to the Yangtze and admired for his work to preserve the Vietnamese Nom language, an the Mississippi.” effort for which he established the Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation. In a State dinner in Hanoi, President Clinton called his work a necessary “cultural bridge.”
6 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT THE KURT BROWN PRIZES The 2017 Kurt Brown Prizes (formerly the WC&C Scholarship Competition) was judged by francine j. harris for poetry, Naomi Williams for fiction, and Brian Oliu for creative nonfiction. Three emerging writers received $500 each to attend a writers’ conference, center, festival, retreat, or residency of their choice. Sean Mulroy won for poetry, Nathan Go won for fiction, and Erica Berry won for creative nonfiction.
INTRO JOURNALS PROJECT Amazon.com Continues Grant Several emerging writers were selected for the 2017 Intro for Paley and Hall Prizes Journals Project, which helps young writers find publication AWP received support from the Amazon Partnership in established journals. Judges for the 2017 competition Program for the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction were Leona Sevick (poetry), Brendan Kiely (fiction), and the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. First given to and Benjamin Busch (creative nonfiction). Participating AWP in 2010, the $20,000 grant was awarded again in magazines were Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2016 to support the winners of the prizes, two of the Iron Horse Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Puerto most coveted and sought-after awards in the literary del Sol, Quarterly West, Tahoma Review, and Tampa Review. community. The grant has also enabled AWP to increase Winners for poetry were Katie Amundsen, Paige Leland, the cash value of the prizes and to significantly expand Alizabeth Leake, Erika Mueller, C.T. Salazar, Maria McKee, promotional support for the winning books. Gabriel Rubi, and Marcus Jamison. Winners for fiction were Derrick Jefferson, Renée Branum, Quintessa Knight, and Jessica Fokken. Creative Nonfiction winners were Rachel Toliver, Dana Chellman, Kathleen Blackburn, and Jennifer Watkins.
NATIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTORS’ PRIZE Instituted by the directors of AWP’s member programs, two National Program Directors’ Prizes for undergraduate literary magazines are awarded annually to outstanding journals in the categories of content and design. Each winning magazine receives a $1,000 cash award. This year’s prize for content went to Runestone (Hamline University/ Selected by Sharon Dolin, Director, Writing About Art in Barcelona) and the prize for design went to Phoenix (Clark Freak Weather Stories by Music for a Wedding by Lauren Clark, winner of the College/Selected by Lisa Noble, Creative Services Manager, Mary Kuryla, winner of the 2016 Grace Paley Prize in 2016 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Edelman Financial Services). Short Fiction
SMALL PRESS PUBLISHER AWARD AWP’s Small Press Publisher Award is an annual prize for nonprofit presses and literary journals that recognizes the important role such organizations play in publishing creative works and introducing new authors to the reading public. The award includes a $2,000 honorarium and a complimentary exhibit booth, including two complimentary Mary Kuryla Lauren Clark conference registrations, at the AWP Conference & Bookfair in the year following the recipient’s recognition. In even years, the award is given to a journal, and, in odd years, to a press. The 2017 winner is Coffee House Press.
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 7 PUBLICATIONS
ublished continuously since 1970, The Writer’s Chronicle appears six times during the academic year P and provides diverse insights into the art of writing that are accessible, pragmatic, and idealistic. TheChronicle is an indispensable forum for serious writers. Each issue features in-depth essays on the craft of writing, as well as extensive interviews with accomplished authors. Readers can also find news on publishing trends September October/November and literary controversies; a listing of grants, awards, and 2016 2016 publication opportunities available to writers; and a list of upcoming conferences for writers, including AWP’s Annual A Chat with Aimee On Becoming “A Fully Conference & Bookfair. Distributed to more than 35,000 Nezhukumatathil Initiated Human Being”: writers, the Chronicle is one of the most widely read journals Eric Farwell Yusef Komunyakaa on on contemporary literature in North America. Playwriting and Poetry The Writer’s Chronicle is available as an app for both Lessons for a Young Critic: Mike Collins Android and Apple iOS platforms. The magazine also enjoys Immersing Yourself in the Generosity of Henry James Ferguson, Whiteness as national distribution through newsstands. As the 2016–2017 toward Balzac Default, & the Teaching issue contents demonstrate, the magazine continues to Richard Goodman of Creative Writing enhance its features and interviews, publishing work by and David Mura about contemporary literature’s most important writers. An Interview with Writers published or featured in the Chronicle’s more recent Charles Baxter In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing issues include Medbh McGuckian, Natasha Sajé, Fred Jacqueline Kolosov Claudia Rankine D’Aguiar, H.L. Hix, Tony Hoagland, Andrew Hudgins, “Not at Home”: Elizabeth Sharon Dolin, Joy Ladin, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Bishop’s Moose as Mother An Interview with John Poch Brian Evenson Mika Yamamoto Pop Muses: Welcoming Contributing Editors, 2016–2017 Fanfiction into the Creative Towards a New Creative Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing Workshop Writing Pedagogy Cara Diconoff Fred D’Aguiar Kwame Dawes Brian Evenson Writerly Fingerprints: An Elegy for the Elegist: Philip Gerard Syntax as Style Claudia Emerson Mauricio Kilwein Guevara Colleen M. Olle Andrew Hudgins Leslie Jamison Sounds Like Writing Women Writing Violence Karen Russell Benjamin Percy Aimee Parkison Arthur Sze Denise Low Weso Crystal Williams
8 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT MORE THAN 100 OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANTS, AWARDS, & PUBLICATION! The Writer’s Chronicle
WORDS ON A JOURNEY: W.S. MERWIN A SYMPOSIUM ART OF THE EXTREME March/April 2017 THE ART OF LEAVING OUT TEACHING ERASURE POETRY STORYTELLING AS INQUIRY CREATIVE NONFICTION & THE ART OF NARRATIVE INTERVIEWS WITH: URSULA K. LE GUIN DENISE DUHAMEL A Publication of AWP • www.awpwriter.org
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A Conversation with Interview with Annie Dillard Craft Interview with An Interview with Medbh McGuckian and Robert Richardson Ursula K. Le Guin Salman Rushdie Chapman Hood Frazier Michael Collins David Naimon Lisa Page
What Do You Mean You “I Live My Life in Growing Words on a Journey: “You are Making Me Can’t Do It?: The Myth of Orbits”: In Praise Of W.S. Merwin Now”: Writing God as “Show, Don’t Tell” Robert Bly David Baker a Contemporary Bill Mesce Tony Hoagland American Poet Art of the Extreme Joy Ladin An Interview with Middle Passage at 25: Nick Flynn and Beth Stewart O’Nan Professor Charles Johnson Bachmann An Interview with Jeffrey Condran Reflects on His National Book William Kennedy Award-Winning Novel An Interview with William Patrick Consider Before You Comma: and More Denise Duhamel A Poet’s Call to Action Robin Lindley William Walsh The Fourth Voice of Poetry Natasha Sajé Brian Brodeur Haunted Surprise Me Something Wants Her Jill McCorkle Debra Spark “Go Thick, Go Deep”: Crooked: Ruralism, Surrealism, Craft Lessons from an and Mortality in the Poems Ambiguities That Clarify The Art of Leaving Out: Ethnographer of Alberta Turner H.L. Hix Teaching Erasure Poetry Kay Henry Thomas A. Loudermilk Sharon Dolin What We Talk About When The True Story? How to Deal Big Mama: Universality and We Talk About Voice Storytelling as Inquiry: with Evidential Gaps While Wholeness in the Essay Sandra Beasley Creative Nonfiction and Writing a Biography Liz Blood the Art of Narrative Viola van de Sandt This Commodious Desert: Lee Martin Move Mountains: Finding Lee K. Abbott The Fabuleme: On Belief Activating Setting Matt Cashion and the Reactivation of Benjamin Percy Disbelief in Fiction Brenda Peynado
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 9 FRIENDS OF AWP, 2016–17
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AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 11 2017 CONFERENCE & BOOKFAIR SPONSORS
Many thanks to the sponsors and partners who made the 2017 conference in Washington, DC a great success!
PREMIER SPONSOR Goddard College Creative Writing Programs Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing at Georgetown University MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro PRESENTING SPONSOR Miami University Low-Residency MFA * Residential MA * Kindle Direct Publishing Miami University Press Amazon.com The Mile-High MFA at Regis University NYU Creative Writing Program CORPORATE AND GRANT SUPPORT Prairie Schooner/African Poetry Book Fund/ National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing PhD at UNL Milkweed Editions Rosemont College Graduate Creative Writing & The Poetry Foundation Publishing Programs .ink Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Salmon Poetry MAJOR SPONSORS Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College Antioch University Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing Chapman University MFA in Creative Writing & Literature The City University of New York University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing Arts & Letters / Georgia College University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program Hollins University: Jackson Center for Creative Writing University of North Carolina, Wilmington MFA Program NEOMFA University of San Francisco MFA in Writing Program The University of Tampa Low-Residency MFA University of Utah Creative Writing Program in Creative Writing Virginia Tech MFA in Creating Writing Program USC Dornsife English & PhD in Literature The Writer’s Center and Creative Writing Wilkes University Low-Residency MA/MFA Program SPONSORS in Creative Writing California College of the Arts MFA in Writing and BA in BENEFACTORS Writing & Literature Cedar Crest College Pan-European MFA in Creative Writing George Mason University Creative Writing Program Drew University Johns Hopkins University Master of Arts in Writing Program Emerson College MFA Creative Writing/MA Publishing/ St. Francis College Low Residency MFA Program MFA Popular Fiction University of Maryland MFA in Creative Writing Fairfield University MFA in Creative Writing PATRONS The Georgia Review Hofstra University MFA in Creative Writing Adelphi University MFA Creative Writing Program The Program in Creative Writing at Knox College American University MFA in Creative Writing LSU Press & the Southern Review Arizona State University MFA Creative Writing Program & Minnesota State University, Mankato/Blue Earth Review The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Mount Saint Mary’s University Los Angeles Creative Black Mountain Institute Writing Program Chatham University MFA Creative Writing Programs Northwestern School of Professional Studies Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing Ohio University MA and PhD in Creative Writing/ Creighton University MFA in Creative Writing New Ohio Review
12 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT LITERARY PARTNERS
Academy of American Poets American Literary Translators Association Old Dominion University MFA Creative Writing Program The Author’s Guild Rose O’Neill Literary House Blue Flower Arts Rutgers-Camden MFA/StoryQuarterly School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Writing BOA Editions Sewanee Writers’ Conference Cave Canem Foundation The Sierra Nevada College MFA in Creative Writing Center for Fiction Spalding University Low-Residency MFA in Coffee House Press Writing Program Towson University Master in Professional Writing Copper Canyon Press University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Community of Literary Magazines & Presses University of Wyoming Creative Writing Program Folger Shakespeare Library Vanderbilt University MFA/Nashville Review Graywolf Press Vermont College of Fine Arts Virginia Commonwealth University/Blackbird Grove/Atlantic Press Washington and Lee University Department of English Kundiman Water~Stone Review and Hamline University National Book Critics Circle Creative Writing Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau West Virginia University MFA Program in Creative Writing The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Society of America The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University Poets House Zone 3 Press/Austin Peay State University Split this Rock CONTRIBUTORS Write On, Door County Atlanta Review Writers in the Schools Bowling Green State University Creative Writing Program Carve Magazine Dominican University of California Low-Residency Program in Creative Writing Emory University Creative Writing Program AWP Conference Support Through the Years Finishing Line Press LSU MFA Program Melville House Boston 2013: 95 sponsors & partners Murray State University Low-Residency MFA Program 103 sponsors & partners The Muse Writers Center Seattle 2014: Potomac Review/Montgomery College Minneapolis 2015: 90 sponsors & partners Salem State University Saranac Review/SUNY Plattsburgh Los Angeles 2016: 116 sponsors & partners University of California, Riverside Low-Residency Washington DC: 118 sponsors & partners MFA Program University of Georgia Low-Residency MFA Program UNO Study Abroad & Creative Writing Programs Washburn University West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Residency MFA Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center at Simmons College
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 13 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT
e have audited the accompanying REVENUES & SUPPORT 2017 2016 financial statements of the Association Annual Conference $ 1,964,272 $1,858,176 of Writers & Writing Programs (“the W Membership Services $ 841,645 $ 821,727 Organization”), which comprise the statements of financial position as of June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Advertising Income $ 479,970 $ 505,321 related statements of activities and cash flows for Investing Income $172,772 $(28,318) the years then ended, and the related notes to the Contributions $214,118 $218,614 financial statements. These financial statements are Publications $87,518 $84,524 the responsibility of the Organization’s management. NEA Grant Income $70,000 $75,000 Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these Other Income $15,052 $12,354 financial statements based on our audits. In our opinion, the financial statements referred TOTAL REVENUE $3,845,347 $3,542,398 to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Organization as of EXPENSES 2017 2016 June 30, 2017 and 2016, and the changes in its net Program Services: assets and its cash flows for the years then ended Annual Conference $1,671,460 $1,631,205 in accordance with accounting principles generally Membership Services $538,277 $545,187 accepted in the United States of America. Our audits were conducted for the purpose of Publications $682,074 $618,137 forming an opinion on the financial statements as NEA Grant Projects $70,000 $70,000 a whole. In our opinion, the information is fairly Total Program Services $2,961,811 $2,864,529 stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements as a whole. Supporting Services: Management & General $411,765 $384,111 Rogers & Company PLLC Development $139,627 $126,351 Certified Public Accountants Total Supporting Services $551,392 $510,462 Vienna, Virginia TOTAL EXPENSES $3,513,203 $3,374,991 December 05, 2017 Change in Net Assets $332,144 $167,407 Net Assets, Beginning of Year $3,900,602 $3,733,195 Net Assets, End of Year $4,232,746 $3,900,602
REVENUES EXPENSES
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MEMBERSHIP SERVICES MEMBERSHIP SERVICES
ADVERTISING INCOME PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS NEA GRANT PROJECTS
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14 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT BOARD & STAFF
As of February 8, 2017 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David Haynes Jill Christman Susan Jackson Rodgers Chair (2012–2020) Outgoing Midwest Council Chair Incoming Western Council Chair Southern Methodist University (2013–2017) (2017–2021) Ball State University and Oregon State University Bonnie Culver Ashland University Vice Chair (2011–2019) David Rothman Wilkes University Rigoberto González Outgoing Southwest Council Chair Trustee (2016–2020) (2013–2017) Robin Reagler Rutgers University Western State Colorado University Vice Chair (2012–2020) Writers in the Schools (WITS) Roger Lathbury Ryan Stone Host–University Liaison (2010–2018) Incoming Southwest Council Chair Oliver de la Paz George Mason University (2017–2021) Treasurer (2011–2019) Paradise Valley Community College College of the Holy Cross Anna Leahy Outgoing Western Council Chair Ira Sukrungruang Jerod Santek (2013–2017) Southern Council Chair (2014–2018) Secretary Chapman University University of South Florida WC&C Council Chair (2008–2020) Write On Door County January Gill O’Neil Robb Trott Northeast Council Chair (2015–2019) Attorney (2015–2019) Mike Astrue Salem State University Trustee (2016–2020) Lesley Wheeler Elise Paschen Mid–Atlantic Council Chair (2015–2018) Kris Bigalk Trustee (2014–2018) Washington and Lee University Incoming Midwest Council Chair School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017–2021)
SENIOR STAFF STAFF
David Fenza Sabera Akhter Pamela Mills Executive Director Web Copy Editor Development Associate
Supriya Bhatnagar Leanne Bowers Annie Peña Director of Publications Design Editor Assistant Web Developer
Kate McDevitt Colleen Cable Kathy Ridenhour Director of Web Services Conference Events Coordinator Membership Assistant
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AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 15 MEMBER INSTITUTIONS: CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMS
UNITED STATES California Institute of Integral Studies DePauw University Adelphi University California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Dickinson College Albertus Magnus College California Polytechnic State University Dominican University of California San Luis Obispo Albion College Drexel University California State University, Chico Alice James Books Duquesne University California State University, Fresno Allegheny College East Carolina University California State University, Los Angeles American University Eastern Connecticut State University California State University, Northridge Anoka-Ramsey Community College Eastern Illinois University Cameron University Antioch University Los Angeles Eastern Kentucky University Canisius College Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for Eastern Oregon University the Arts and Technology Carleton College Eastern Washington University Arapahoe Community College Carnegie Mellon University Eckerd College Arcadia University Case Western Reserve University Edinboro University Arizona State University Cedar Crest College Elms College Arkansas Tech University Central Connecticut State University Elon University Armstrong Atlantic State University Central Michigan University Emerson College Ashland University Century College Emory University Auburn University Chapman University Emporia State University Augsburg University Chatham University Etowah Valley MFA at Reinhardt University Augusta University Christian Brothers University Fairfield University Austin Community College Christopher Newport University Fairleigh Dickinson University Austin Peay State University City College of New York Finger Lakes Community College Azusa Pacific University Clackamas Community College Florida Atlantic University Baldwin Wallace University Claremont Graduate University Florida International University Ball State University Clayton State University Florida State University Baylor University Coastal Carolina University Fordham University Beloit College Coe College Franklin & Marshall College Bemidji State University College of Charleston Franklin Pierce University Bennington College College of St. Benedict & St. John’s University Frostburg State University Berry College College of William & Mary George Mason University Binghamton University Collin College George Washington University Bloomsburg University Colorado College Georgetown University Boise State University Colorado Mesa University Georgia College & State University Boston College Colorado State University Georgia Southern University Bowling Green State University Columbia College Chicago Georgia State University Bradley University Columbia University Gettysburg College Bridgewater State University Converse College Goddard College Brigham Young University Cornell College Gonzaga University Brookdale Community College Cornell University Goucher College Brown University Creighton University Grand Valley State University Bucknell University Davidson College Hamilton College Buffalo State College Delta College Hamline University Butler University Denison University Hampden-Sydney College California College of the Arts DePaul University Hardin-Simmons University
16 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Harvard University Madison Area Technical College Oakland University Haskell Indian Nations University Malone University Oberlin College Hendrix College Marquette University Ohio State University Hiram College Marshall University Ohio University, Main Campus Hofstra University Marymount Manhattan College Oklahoma Baptist University Hollins University Marymount University Oklahoma City University Hope College Maryville University Oklahoma State University Humboldt State University McNeese State University Old Dominion University Hunter College Medgar Evers College Oregon State University Idyllwild Arts Academy Mercer University Oregon State University, Cascades Illinois State University Metropolitan Community College Otis College of Art and Design Indiana University Miami University, Ohio Otterbein University Indiana University East Miami University, Ohio - Low Residency Our Lady of the Lake University Indiana University of Pennsylvania Michigan State University Pacific Lutheran University Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI) Mile-High MFA at Regis University Pacific University Institute of American Indian Arts Mills College Paradise Valley Community College Iowa State University Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Ithaca College Minnesota State University, Mankato Penn State, Altoona James Madison University Minnesota State University, Moorhead Penn State, Berks Johns Hopkins University: MA in Writing Mississippi State University Penn State, University Park Johns Hopkins University: The Writing Mississippi University for Women Pepperdine University Seminars Missouri State University Perimeter College at Georgia State University Joliet Junior College Missouri Western State University Phoenix College Kansas City Art Institute Monmouth University Pine Manor College Kansas State University Monroe Community College Pitt Community College, Greenville Center Kennesaw State University Montana State University, Billings Pittsburg State University Kent State University Montgomery College, Rockville Ploughshares Kenyon College Morehead State University Point Loma Nazarene University Kenyon Review Mount Mary University Portland State University Knox College Muhlenberg College Pratt Institute Kutztown University Murray State University Pulaski Technical College Lafayette College Naropa University Purdue University Lake Superior State University Nassau Community College Queens College Lakeland University National University Queens University of Charlotte Lamar University New England College Randolph College Lebanon Valley College New Mexico Highlands University Reed College Lesley University New Mexico State University Rhode Island College Lewis University New York University, SCE McGhee Division Rhode Island School of Design Lindenwood University Normandale Community College Rhodes College Linfield College North Carolina State University Ringling College of Art and Design Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania North Hennepin Community College Roanoke College Long Beach City College Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) Roger Williams University Longwood University Northern Arizona University Rogers State University Louisiana State University Northern Kentucky University Roosevelt University Loyola Marymount University Northern Michigan University Rowan University Loyola University New Orleans Northern Virginia Community College Rutgers University Lycoming College Northwestern University Saint Joseph’s University Lynchburg College NYU Creative Writing Program Saint Lawrence University
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 17 Saint Leo University Syracuse University University of Hawaii, Manoa Saint Mary’s College Taylor University University of Houston Saint Mary’s College of California Temple University University of Idaho Salem College Tennessee Technological University University of Illinois, Chicago Salem State University Terra State Community College University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Salisbury University Texas A&M University, College Station University of Indianapolis Salve Regina University Texas Christian University University of Iowa MFA in Spanish Creative Sam Houston State University Texas State University Writing San Diego State University Texas Tech University University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program San Francisco State University The Chicago High School for the Arts University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop San Jose State University The College at Brockport University of Kansas Santa Clara University The College of Wooster University of Kentucky Sarah Lawrence College The New School University of La Verne Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa University of Louisiana, Lafayette SCAPA at Lafayette High School The University of the Arts University of Louisville School of the Art Institute of Chicago Towson University University of Maine, Farmington Seattle Pacific University Truman State University University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Seton Hill University Tulane University University of Mary Washington Shippensburg University UCLA University of Maryland Sierra Nevada College Union College University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Simmons College University of Alabama, Birmingham University of Massachusetts, Amherst Skidmore College University of Alaska, Anchorage University of Memphis Slippery Rock University University of Alaska, Fairbanks University of Miami Sonoma State University University of Arizona University of Michigan (Helen Zell Writers’ Southeast Missouri State University University of Arkansas, Little Rock Program) Southern Connecticut State University University of Arkansas, Fayetteville University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville University of Arkansas, Monticello University of Mississippi, Oxford Southern Illinois University, Carbondale University of Baltimore University of Missouri at Kansas City Southern New Hampshire University University of California Riverside, Palm Desert University of Missouri, Columbia Southern Utah University University of California, Davis University of Missouri, St. Louis Southwest Minnesota State University University of California, Irvine University of Montana, Missoula Spalding University University of California, Riverside University of Mount Olive St. Olaf College University of California, San Diego University of Nebraska at Lincoln Stanford Creative Writing Program University of Central Arkansas University of Nebraska at Omaha BFA State College of Florida Literary Guild University of Central Florida University of Nebraska at Omaha, English Stephen F. Austin State University University of Central Oklahoma Department Sterling College University of Chicago University of Nebraska, Omaha Stetson University University of Cincinnati University of Nevada, Las Vegas Stonecoast, University of Southern Maine University of Cincinnati, Clermont College University of Nevada, Reno Stony Brook Southampton University of Colorado, Boulder University of New Hampshire Suffolk County Community College University of Colorado, Denver University of New Mexico SUNY, Buffalo University of Connecticut University of New Orleans SUNY, Oswego University of Denver University of North Alabama SUNY, Albany University Of Denver University College University of North Carolina, Asheville SUNY, Geneseo University of Evansville University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill SUNY, Potsdam University of Florida University of North Carolina, Greensboro Susquehanna University University of Georgia University of North Carolina, Wilmington Sweet Briar College University of Hartford University of North Dakota
18 | AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT University of North Texas Utica College INTERNATIONAL University of Notre Dame Valdosta State University Bath Spa University University of Oklahoma Vanderbilt University Cardiff Metropolitan University University of Oregon Vermont College of Fine Arts Concordia University University of Pennsylvania Virginia Commonwealth University Humber School for Writers University of Pittsburgh Virginia Military Institute Instituto Vera Cruz University of Pittsburgh, Bradford Virginia Tech John Cabot University University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Wake Forest University NYU Creative Writing, Low-Residency MFA University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Walla Walla University in Paris University of Redlands Warren County Community College Oxford University University of San Francisco Warren Wilson College University of British Columbia University of Scranton Washington and Lee University University of British Columbia, Okanagan University of South Alabama Washington College University of East Anglia University of South Carolina, Columbia Washington State University University of King’s College University of South Carolina, Upstate Washington University in St. Louis Yale NUS College University of South Dakota Wayne State College University of South Florida Weber State University University of Southern Mississippi Webster University University of St. Thomas West Virginia University University of Tampa West Virginia Wesleyan College University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Western Carolina University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Western Connecticut State University University of Tennessee, Martin Western Kentucky University University of Texas at Austin/The New Writers Western Michigan University Project Western New England University University of Texas at Austin/Michener Center Western State Colorado University for Writers Western Washington University University of Texas, Tyler Westfield State University University of Texas, Dallas Westminster College of Salt Lake City University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) Wheaton College of Illinois University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Wichita State University University of Texas, San Antonio Widener University University of the Pacific Wilkes University University of Toledo William Paterson University University of Tulsa Winthrop University University of Utah Writers in the Schools University of Virginia Xavier University of Louisiana University of Washington Yavapai College University of Washington, Bothell York College of Pennsylvania University of West Georgia Young Harris College University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee University of Wisconsin, Platteville University of Wisconsin, Superior University of Wyoming Upper Iowa University USC - PhD Creative Writing and Literature Utah State University
AWP 2017 ANNUAL REPORT | 19 MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS: WRITERS’ CONFERENCES & CENTERS
MID-ATLANTIC Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences SOUTHEAST North Coast Redwoods Writers’ Aspen Words Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Inc. Atlanta Writers Conference Conference Chesapeake Writers’ Conference CCLC (Iota: The Conference of Short Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: PLAYA CityLit Project Prose) Writers in Paradise Residency Writers Conference at Fall for the Book Center for Black Literature at Medgar Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts Pacific University Master of Fine Arts Flatiron Writers Room Evers College, CUNY Writer-in-Residence Program in Writing Furious Flower Poetry Center Chautauqua Literary Arts Fishtrap San Francisco Writers Conference Good Contrivance Farm Writer’s Colgate Writers’ Conference Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other ScriptFest & The Great American Retreat Cuppa Pulp Writer’s Space Words Conference PitchFest Hampton Roads Writers Edward F. Albee Foundation Free Expressions Seminars Story Catcher Summer Writing Louisville Literary Arts Highlights Foundation Workshops Kerouac Writer in Residence Project Workshop and Festival North Carolina Writers’ Network Idlewild Arts Key West Literary Seminar and Writers’ Summer Poetry in Idyllwild The Muse Writers Center Juniper Summer Writing Institute & Workshop Program UC Berkeley Extension Writing The Porches Institute for Young Writers Palm Beach Poetry Festival Program The Writer’s Center Murphy Writing of Stockton University Sanibel Island Writers Conference UCLA Extension Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop New York Arts Program Sewanee Writers’ Conference University of North Dakota Writers Conference Washington Writers Conference New York State Summer Writers Voices of Our Nations Arts Fdn Williamsburg Book Festival Institute SOUTHWEST (VONA/Voices) WriterHouse New York Writers Workshop Arizona State University— Odyssey Writing Workshops Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers at Work Writers’ League of Texas MIDWEST Poetry Barn Writers Conference Writing by Writers Antioch Writers’ Workshop Postgraduate Writers’ Conference Gemini Ink Cuyahoga County Public Library Prisoner Express Las Vegas Writers Conference INTERNATIONAL William N. Skirball Writers’ Center Saltonstall Foundation Arts Colony San Antonio Book Festival Aegean Arts Circle Elephant Rock Retreats for Writing Slice Literary, Inc. Santa Fe Writers Lab and Yoga Summer Writing Intensive Taos Writing Retreat for Health BAU Institute Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters The Frost Place: Professionals Centauri Arts - Creative Writing Retreat Indiana University Writers’ Conference The Greater Lehigh Valley The Poetry at Round Top Festival DISQUIET: The Dzanc Books International Literary Program in Indiana Writers’ Consortium Writers Group Tulsa Artist Fellowship Lisbon, Portugal Iowa Summer Writing Festival The International Women’s University of Arizona Poetry Center Iceland Writers Retreat Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop Writing Guild Summer and Winter Residencies La Muse artists and writers retreat Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for The Mastheads University of New Mexico Rananim France the Arts The Millay Colony for the Arts Online Writing Workshops NYU Writers in New York, Florence, Madeline Island School of the Arts The Writer’s Hotel and Paris Midwest Writing Center The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center WEST Paris Café Writing Minnesota Northwoods Writers Vermont Studio Center AfroSurreal Writers Workshop San Miguel Writers’ Conference & Conference Wesleyan Writers Conference Anaphora Writing Residency Literary Festival (Mexico) StoryStudio Chicago West Chester University Poetry Center Artsmith Story is a State of Mind Taleamor Park Westport Writers’ Workshop Boldface Conference for Emerging The American University of Paris The Loft Literary Center Wilkes University Writers Summer Creative Writing Institute The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Writers & Books Calliope Authors Workshop The Creative Writer’s Workshop Creative Writing Yale Writers’ Conference Catamaran Writing Conference Women Reading Aloud Writers Retreat The Writers Place Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in Greece University of Wisconsin-Madison NORTHWEST DFW Writer’s Conference Writeaways Writers’ Institute Alderworks Alaska Writers & Good Roads Writing About Art in Barcelona Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat Artists Retreat Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Writing Workshops in Greece: (Formerly Rustbelt Roethke) Avery Arts & Nature Learning Center Poetics Summer Writing Program at Thessaloniki & Thasos Write On, Door County Hedgebrook Naropa University Writer’s Digest Conferences Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference Kauai Writers Conference Writer’s Studio (Graham School, LoonSong Leopardi Writing Conference University of Chicago) Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Lighthouse Writers Workshop Writing Residency Longleaf Writers’ Conference NORTHEAST North Words Writers Symposium (formerly Seaside Writers’ Conference) ASLE (Association for the Study of PDX Writers Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Literature & Environment) The Glen Workshop Conference Birds & Muses Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop Mendocino Coast Writers Conference BookBaby Independent Authors Willamette Writers Napa Valley Writers’ Conference Conference Write Around Portland
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