As AWP 2020 approaches, we’re packing our bags, compiling bios for our offsite contributor reading, and sealing up boxes of our promotional T-shirts and giveaways. We’ll be there in the Bookfair with the other presses able to make it, so please stop by and say hello.
We realize that our audience includes those who won’t attend this year, and we wanted to give you your own special #AWPVirtualBookfair deal. So, from now through Monday, March 9, everything in our online store is 20 percent off. Just use the coupon code AWP2020 at checkout. (Online purchases don’t include any incentives below.)
For those attending, here’s our dance card:
Monster Mags of the Midwest Offsite Reading
We’ll be kicking off the conference on Wednesday night with our annual offsite contributor reading, cohosted with The Journal, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter. Our featured readers will include Su Cho, Siân Griffiths, Jameelah Lang, Rainie Oet, Ira Sukrungruang, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang.
Join us on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8 p.m. at The Amp Room (2407 N St Mary’s St, San Antonio, TX 78212). RSVP on our Facebook Event Page.
Bookfair and Subscription Incentives
We’ll be at booths 1533 and 1534 (will update if they consolidate space in the Bookfair!), sharing space with our book-publishing arm, Acre Books. Stop by to say hello and pick up a fun freebie (is it a pen? is it a pencil?). If you purchase a 1-year print or 2-year digital subscription (minimum), you’ll also receive a free promotional T-shirt.
We will also be running a Monster Mags deal: a 1-year subscription to The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter, for only $40 plus tax, with a free T-shirt thrown in for good measure!
Author Signings
Stop by our booth to purchase signed books from our current and former CR editorial staff.
Friday, 10:30-10:00 a.m.: Nicholas Molbert, Goodness Gracious (poetry)
(Please note: the Brian Brodeur and Cara Dees signings have been cancelled.)
Editor Panel
On Saturday, March 7, from 1:45-3:00 p.m., Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman will speak alongside editors Dave Housley, Misty Matin, Ryan Ridge, and Sarah Anne Strickley . Come out to hear how literary magazines maintain consistency when grad and undergrad student editors turn over each year.
Additional CR Staff Events
Members of our CR staff will also be participating in the following on- and offsite events:
Thursday, 12:10-1:25 p.m.: Assistant Editor Sakinah Hofler, “R209. The Long and Short of It: Short Stories That Evolved into Novels” (panel)
Thursday, 7:00-9:00 p.m.: Associate Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton, For the Love of Listening: A Literary Pizza Party (offsite reading)
Friday, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman, LSU Press Book Signing of Romances (poetry)
