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AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers. We support over 34,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 100 writers' conferences and centers.

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On Choosing the Writing Program Best for You

AWP Program Director's Handbook - 2012 (PDF- 1.03MB)

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The Writer's News

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Begins Bankruptcy Proceedings
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, announced it would initiate Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in order to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt.

A Museum for John Updike
The John Updike Society has signed an agreement for purchasing the childhood home of John Updike for $200,000 as part of a plan to turn the home into a museum.

Maurice Sendak Dies
The author of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, died on May 8 in a Connecticut hospital after suffering a stroke a few days previously.

Poet Joshua Clover and 11 UC Davis Students Face Jail and $1 Million in Damages
For their role in protests in February that led to the close of a US Bank on UC Davis's campus, poet and professor Joshua Clover and eleven students now face up to eleven years each in prison and $1 million in damages.

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