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
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
Sample Articles
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The 2024 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature |
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Lauren Myers-Hinkle, A. Van Jordan |
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Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko |
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Derek JG Williams |
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Emily Lackey |
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Alyson Mosquera Dutemple |
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Meg Eden Kuyatt, Hannah V. Sawyerr |
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Thomas Larson |
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Helena Feder |
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Laima Vincé |
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Jarek Steele |
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Halyna Kruk, Amelia M. Glaser, and Yuliya Ilchuk |
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Rochelle Spencer |
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Neema Avashia, W. David Hall, Mesha Maren, Carter Sickels, and Jamie Lyn Smith |
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Meet the 2022 AWP Award Series Winners at the #AWP24 Conference & Bookfair |
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Amber Caron |
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Christopher Kempf |
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Erika Swyler |
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Rachel King |
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Donald Quist |
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David Galef |
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Patricia Clark |
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Scout DeSimio |
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Marcus Myers |
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Philip Metres |
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Douglas Bauer |
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Karen Babine |
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Min Jin Lee, Nancy Pearl |
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The 2023 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature |
Duriel E. Harris |
A.J. Verdelle |
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Scott LaMascus |
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Delicia Daniels |
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Aaron Tillman |
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Helena Feder |
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Writing about People of Different Individual & Cultural Identities |
Maryka Biaggio & Vanitha Sankaran |
Kate Morgan |
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Helena Feder |
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Scott Driscoll & A. Muia |
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Liam Hoare |
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Jessica Jacobs |
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J.T. Bushnell |
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“Sing Me”: An Appreciation of Philip Gerard, AWP Advocate & Friend |
Martin Lammon |
Chikodi Adeola Olasode |
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Anna Leahy |
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Christopher Kempf |
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Elizabeth Bradford, Lucille Lang Day, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ann Fisher-Wirth, & Allison Adelle Hedge Coke |
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Brian Brodeur |
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Deborah Bacharach & Dia Calhoun |
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Tim Waggoner |
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Michael Colbert |
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Philip Metres |
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J.D. Scrimgeour |
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Chapman Hood Frazier |
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Sara Hailstone |
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Alicia Ostriker |
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Debra Spark |
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Richard Goodman |
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Patrick Moran |
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Aviya Kushner, Sharon Dolin, Katherine E. Young, Andrea Jurjevic, Nancy Naomi Carlson |
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Jasmine V. Bailey |
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Cathleen Schine |
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Jasmin Attia |
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Jonathan Harrington |
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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 |
Anne Elliott |
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“Into a Shadowed Plain”: Cathy Park Hong and the Ballad Tradition |
Brian Brodeur |
Scott Nadelson |
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Ann Jacobus and Nancy Bo Flood |
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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 |
Jon D. Lee |
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Conflicting Truths: Navigating Unreliability in Stories of Ethical and Emotional Complexity |
Hannah Markos Williams |
Beatrice Szymkowiak |
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Collin Berry |
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Tanya Perkins |
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Robert McGill |
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Cathy Wittmeyer |
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Patricia Clark |
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Natasha Sajé |
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Audrey Hackett |
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Chikodi Adeola Olasode |
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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 |
Sanaphay Rattanavong |
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Kristin Burcham |
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On Enchantment, Community, and Seasons Forever Changed in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek |
Vanessa Blakeslee |
Helena Feder |
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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 |
Alan Soldofsky |
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Amanda Galvan Huynh |
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Ana Maria Spagna |