April 2024
The 2024 AWP Small Press Publisher Award
The AWP 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. AWP reached out to Simmons Buntin, the editor in chief of the 2024 winning literary journal, Terrain.org, to ask about the journal and what it means to win this prize.
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The 2024 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature
Each year, AWP presents the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature to an individual who has made notable donations of care, time, labor, and money to support writers and their literary accomplishments. Below is a transcript of 2024 winner Jarod Santek’s speech, with an introduction from AWP executive director Cynthia Sherman. It has been edited for the format of this publication.
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Ready to Dream Again
Lauren Myers-Hinkle, A. Van Jordan
Lauren Myers-Hinkle talks to the celebrated poet about his latest collection, music, and the
relationship between poetry and film.
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The Chaos Agents
Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko
Married writers Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko discuss the challenges, joys, and delicate
balance of writing while parenting three young children.
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The Mask and the Unmasking
Derek JG Williams
Derek JG Williams examines the similar techniques used by both types of artists.
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Still Very Much Me
Emily Lackey
Emily Lackey discovers a symbiotic relationship between motherhood and her writing.
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On Avoiding Melodrama and the Occasional Ditch
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple shows how well-known authors skirt the pitfalls of dramatic
subject matter.
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The Best of Both Genres
Meg Eden Kuyatt, Hannah V. Sawyerr
Meg Eden Kuyatt and Hannah V. Sawyerr, both authors of novels in verse, explore the virtues
of an increasingly popular form.
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