Seattle writers: Take note of 15 events at the AWP Conference this week
It's been almost a decade since the Association of Writers & Writing Programs last held its annual conference in Seattle. Much has changed since th...
It's been almost a decade since the Association of Writers & Writing Programs last held its annual conference in Seattle. Much has changed since the nation's biggest gathering of authors, publishers, literary magazines and writing programs convened here in 2014: Seattle has gained UNESCO City of Literature status, marking us as one of the world's preeminent literary destinations; the Seattle Convention Center has just completed an impressive $2 billion expansion; and the city somehow managed to emerge from pandemic-era lockdowns with more neighborhood independent bookstores than it had at the beginning.