BOA will be tabling at AWP’s Conference & Bookfair this year in Seattle, Washington! The 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place March 8–11 at the Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA. More information and updates can be found on AWP’s website. You’ll find BOA at Booth #1232! Below we’ve compiled lists of all signings, panels, and offsite events featuring BOA writers. We'll keep updating this list as we learn of new events, so check back later for more!
Author Book Signings at the BOA Booth (#1232)
Thursday, March 9
- Alicia Mountain, author of Four in Hand at 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Matt Donovan, author of The Dug-Up Gun Museum at 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Flare, Corona at 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Friday, March 10
- Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency at 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Margaret Ray, author of Good Grief, the Ground at 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Luther Hughes, author of A Shiver in the Leaves at 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, March 11
- Mahtem Shiferraw, author of Nomenclatures of Invisibility at 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Jessica Q. Stark, author of Buffalo Girl at 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- Cynthia Dewi Oka, author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts at 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
AWP Panels
Thursday, March 9
Occupational Hazards: Teaching and Writing Risk across Genreswith Erika Meitner
Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Do I Contain Multitudes? Who's Asking?
with Rachel Mennies
Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
So, What Are You? Mixed-Race, Asian American Writers on Identity and Visibility
with Jessica Q. Stark
Terrace Suite II, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Queer Identity in Poetry
with Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Nickole Brown, Dustin Pearson, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Rooms 347-348, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Queer Eye for the Natural World: Writing Our Bodies, Desire, and Nature
with Alicia Mountain
Rooms 328-329, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Friday, March 10
Poetry, Law, and the US "Justice" Systemwith Laura Read and Wayne Miller
Room 437, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
9:00 am to 10:15 am
They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
with Christine Kitano
Rooms 328-329, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Asian Moms: Tiger Moms, Magical Grandmas, and the Asian American Millennial
with Danni Quintos
Room 332, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
10:35 am to 11:50 am
The Body Politic: Poetry of Motherhood, Trauma, and Sexuality
with Erika Meitner and Keetje Kuipers
Rooms 443-444, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
"Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History
with Jessica Q. Stark and Cynthia Dewi Oka
Terrace Suite II, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
The Best of All Worlds: Partnering to Support Presses, Nonprofits, and Writers
with Rachel Mennies
Rooms 343-344, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Vital to Language and Living: Copper Canyon Celebrates Its First Fifty Years
with Ellen Bass
Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
BIPOC Women / Nonbinary Writers: Cultivating Community and Safe Writing Spaces
with Mahtem Shiferraw
Room 327, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
The Future of Queer Aesthetics: How to Write Authentic LGBTQ+ Characters
with Chen Chen
Terrace Suite I, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Saturday, March 11
Writing the Wounded World: Poets Working from and against Eco-Griefwith Geffrey Davis
Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Incandescent with Feminine Rage: A Reading
with Kendra DeColo
Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Mutant, Monster, Misfit, Myself: Writing the Disabled / Chronically Ill Body, Sponsored by AWP
with Jeannine Hall Gailey
Ballroom 2 & 3, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Writing the Monster
with Kathryn Nuernberger
Rooms 431-432, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Your Best Book Launch: Publicity for Poets (and Other Small Press Writers)
with Jeannine Hall Gailey
Rooms 333-334, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Begin Again: New Editors on Taking the Helm, Sponsored by CLMP
with Keetje Kuipers
Room 332, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Exploring the Terrain of Fiction—Writing as a Means of Survival
with Adam McOmber
Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
In Praise of Praise: Do Young Writers Need Encouragement Now More Than Ever?
with John Gallaher
Rooms 347-348, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Writing as an Act of Social Justice
with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Offsite Events
Wednesday, March 8
BOA Poets Reading & Launch
with Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Nickole Brown, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Luther Hughes, Alicia Mountain, Dustin Pearson, and Margaret Ray
The Pine Box | 1600 Melrose Ave | Seattle WA, 98122
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Thursday, March 9
Reading: Veliz Books, BOA Editions, Noemi Press
with Jessica Q. Stark and Jeannine Hall Gailey
Seattle Public Library (10th Floor Reading Room)
1000 Fourth Ave | Seattle, WA 98104
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Vermillion Gallery | 1508 11th Avenue | Seattle, WA, 98122
10:00 pm 11:30 pm
Compiled by Robin Weeg. Robin is a Creative Writing student at Finger Lakes Community College and a spring 2023 intern at BOA.
