After 29 years of service, David Fenza has ended his service as Executive Director of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. We have begun a national search for an Executive Director.

AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 college and university creative writing programs, and 150 writers’ conferences and centers. Our mission is to foster literary achievement, advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.

AWP wishes David Fenza well in his future endeavors.