Menu

AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.

A collage of several recent covers of the The Writer's Chronicle

The Writer’s Chronicle

First established in 1967 as the AWP Newsletter, the Writer’s Chronicle serves as a leading source of information for writers, editors, students, and teachers of writing. Each issue features writing news, essays on craft, and interviews with authors. The Writer’s Chronicle is for those who love reading and writing.



Current Issue: April 2024

A laptop displaying the cover of the Writer’s Chronicle, which shows two parents writing at desks while their kids lie on the floor and color

Featured Articles

  • The Chaos Agents: A Conversation with Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko
  • Still Very Much Me: On Becoming a Mother and Not Becoming an Art Monster
  • Ready to Dream Again: A Conversation with A. Van Jordan
  • On Avoiding Melodrama and the Occasional Ditch
  • The Mask and the Unmasking: What Poets and Actors Share
  • The Best of Both Genres: The Rise of the Novel in Verse

Read the current issue



Sample Articles

Article Author

The 2024 AWP Small Press Publisher Award

The 2024 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature

Ready to Dream Again

Lauren Myers-Hinkle, A. Van Jordan

The Chaos Agents

Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko

The Mask and the Unmasking

Derek JG Williams

Still Very Much Me

Emily Lackey

On Avoiding Melodrama and the Occasional Ditch

Alyson Mosquera Dutemple

The Best of Both Genres

Meg Eden Kuyatt, Hannah V. Sawyerr

The Writer-on-Writer Memoir

Thomas Larson

Allegories for the Future

Helena Feder

Poetry of Freedom and Dignity

Laima Vincé

States of Being

Jarek Steele

Four Poems by Halyna Kruk

Halyna Kruk, Amelia M. Glaser, and Yuliya Ilchuk

BE

Rochelle Spencer

The 2023 AWP Award Series Winners on Their Winning Books

Introducing the 2024 AWP Award Series Judges

Queering and Disrupting Appalachian Narratives

Neema Avashia, W. David Hall, Mesha Maren, Carter Sickels, and Jamie Lyn Smith

Meet the 2022 AWP Award Series Winners at the #AWP24 Conference & Bookfair

From the Bakery to the Bar

Amber Caron

Mine Own Eaven

Christopher Kempf

Scraping the Writer

Erika Swyler

The First Domino?

Rachel King

Truth(s) Be Told

Donald Quist

Framing the Frame

David Galef

An Interview with Alice Friman

Patricia Clark

Selections from the 2023 Intro Journals Project Winners

#WritersServe Pride Haven at #AWP24A

Scout DeSimio

The 2023 National Program Directors’ Prize

Moveable Type

Marcus Myers

More Than Just a Pretty Hat

Philip Metres

Interiority

Douglas Bauer

On Torque

Karen Babine

The #AWP23 Keynote

Min Jin Lee, Nancy Pearl

The 2023 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature

Duriel E. Harris

The AWP HBCU Fellowship

A.J. Verdelle

The Lens of the Present

Scott LaMascus

Audible Activism in American Sign Language Poetry

Delicia Daniels

Flights of Fancy

Aaron Tillman

More Fully, More Delicately Alive

Helena Feder

Writing about People of Different Individual & Cultural Identities

Maryka Biaggio & Vanitha Sankaran

Women Who Love Musicians All Their Lives

Kate Morgan

The Art of Living

Helena Feder

In Whose Voice

Scott Driscoll & A. Muia

Deborah Levy

Liam Hoare

Blah, Blah, Love

Jessica Jacobs

From Rules to Rebels

J.T. Bushnell

“Sing Me”: An Appreciation of Philip Gerard, AWP Advocate & Friend

Martin Lammon

A Conversation With Mark Tredinnick

Chikodi Adeola Olasode

In Working Order, or Proxemics & the Poetry Book

Anna Leahy

Craft Inc.

Christopher Kempf

Iambs & Isotopes

Elizabeth Bradford, Lucille Lang Day, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ann Fisher-Wirth, & Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Negotiating to Keep the Poem Alive

Brian Brodeur

Two Roads to the Ruins

Deborah Bacharach & Dia Calhoun

Let Them Write

Tim Waggoner

Writing for the Freshest Air

Michael Colbert

Black Lives Matter & the Poetics Of Justice

Philip Metres

Disorder in Suspension

J.D. Scrimgeour

A Conversation with Sonia Sanchez

Chapman Hood Frazier

Murdered, or Concealed

Sara Hailstone

Containing Multitudes

Alicia Ostriker

Don’t Tell Me What To Do

Debra Spark

Maxine Hong Kingston & the New Horizons of American Memoir

Richard Goodman

Let Scotland Burn Yella

Patrick Moran

Raising the Volume

Aviya Kushner, Sharon Dolin, Katherine E. Young, Andrea Jurjevic, Nancy Naomi Carlson

Bare Poetry

Jasmine V. Bailey

Cathleen Schine & the Comic Tradition

Cathleen Schine

On Arab Feminist Writers

Jasmin Attia

A Poet of the World, For the World

Jonathan Harrington

The World Comes to Light: Understanding and Cultivating the Art of Metaphor

Karin de Weille

SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Complicity and the Rise of the Post-Human Poem”

Sara Baxter

Sanctuary: Rethinking Trouble in Fiction

Anne Elliott

“Into a Shadowed Plain”: Cathy Park Hong and the Ballad Tradition

Brian Brodeur

Response: Writing (Into and Against) Silence

Scott Nadelson

Writing the Story of Mental Illness for Young Readers

Ann Jacobus and Nancy Bo Flood

The Body of the Poetry Manuscript: Patterning Your Collection with Structural Repetition

Annie Finch

An Abandoned Immigrant Finds Her Voice: An Interview with Allison Hong Merrill

Megan Vered

In the Note Between Notes, In Round Sound of Breath: A Conversation with Kazim Ali

Karthik Purushottaman

Complicity & the Rise of the Post-Human Poem

Jon D. Lee

Conflicting Truths: Navigating Unreliability in Stories of Ethical and Emotional Complexity

Hannah Markos Williams

Against the Typography of Colonization: Decolonization Through & of the Printed Text by Contemporary Indigenous Poets

Beatrice Szymkowiak

An Interview with Spencer Reece

Collin Berry

SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Just Enough Light to See By: Conveying Meaning in Nonfiction Writing” by Clifford Thompson

Tanya Perkins

Eight Ways to Create Knowledge with Creative Writing

Robert McGill

Where Do You Get a Poetic License to Infringe Copyright?

Cathy Wittmeyer

An Interview with Ellen Bass

Patricia Clark

The Iceberg of Ageism

Natasha Sajé

The Poet in Time: The Art and Teaching of Ralph Angel

Audrey Hackett

A Conversation with Helon Habila

Chikodi Adeola Olasode

Just Enough Light to See By: Conveying Meaning in Nonfiction Writing

Clifford Thompson

The Urgency of the Writer: Thomas E. Kennedy, 1944–2021: In Memoria

Robert Stewart

K. Is For Consciousness

Sanaphay Rattanavong

Suggested Teaching Guide for Liam Callanan’s “The Gravity of the Invisible: Absent Characters and the Physics of Fiction”

Kristin Burcham

On Enchantment, Community, and Seasons Forever Changed in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek

Vanessa Blakeslee

Dorianne Laux, Elegiac Witness: A Conversation

Helena Feder

Gravity of the Invisible: Absent Characters & the Physics of Fiction

Liam Callanan

A Coherent Shape to Brokenness: The 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair Keynote Address

Joy Harjo

The Power of Words: A Conversation with San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson

Sheila Black

The Geography of Heaven: Al Young 1939–2021:

Alan Soldofsky

Craft Elements of Multilingual Poetry in America

Amanda Galvan Huynh

What If? The Art of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction

Ana Maria Spagna