#AWP17: Bull City Press in DC

Bull City Press in Washington, DC at #AWP17.

Bookfair booth 672

Our 10th Anniversary Reading!

Room 203AB, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
Friday, February 10, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

For ten years, Bull City Press has focused on representing brevity in its many incarnations. Now publishing chapbooks from established and emerging writers in poetry and short prose, Bull City Press showcases unique voices and the vibrancy of compressed forms. We celebrate the first decade with a reading from recent winners of the Frost Place Chapbook Competition, contributors to Inch magazine, and authors from our chapbook series.
   

Featured readers include Anders Carlson-Wee, Tiana Clark, Emilia Phillips, and Anne Valente, with short readings from Dilruba Ahmed, Tommye Blount, Michael Martone, Anna Ross, and Chris Tonelli.

Offsite

Four Way Books, Bull City Press, and Persea Books
Thursday, February 9, 2017
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Short readings from Tommye Blount, Tiana Clark, Chloe Honum, and Anna Ross (Bull City Press), Elizabeth Bradfield, Molly McCully Brown, Karen Donovan, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Susanna Nevison, and Alexandra Teague (Persea Books), and Bruce Bond, Allison Benis White, Bruce Willard, and Nathan McClain (Four Way Books), with even shorter readings from friends of our presses: Carrie Addington, Ryan Murphy, Martha Rhodes, Lani Scozzari, Noah Stetzer, and Martha Custis Webster.

 

Author Signings

We are booth number 672 at the Bookfair with author signings lined up!

• Tommye Blount    Thursday from 11:00am to 12:00 pm
• Anna Ross    Thursday from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
• Anders Carlson-Wee    Thursday from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
• Ben Hoffman   Thursday from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
• Tiana Clark    Thursday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm
• Chloe Honum    Friday from 11:00am to 12:00pm
• B.J. Hollars    Friday from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
• Anne Valente     Friday 2:00pm to 2:45pm
• Michael Martone    Saturday 11:00am to 12:00pm
• Emilia Phillips   Saturday 2:00pm to 3:00pm  **updated time**

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Panels Featuring Bull City Press Authors

B.J. Hollars

F250.  Community Crafting: Reaching Beyond the Classroom to Empower Local Communities.  (Sean Lovelace, BJ Hollars, Sarah Blackman, Jennifer Franklin) How do we convince students of the power of integrating classroom experiences within their communities, of the importance of touching lives beyond the page? Join panelists as they explore innovative opportunities for writers to impact the world with words. (Friday 10 February 2017, 3:00pm / Archives, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four)

Michael Martone

R239.  Together with All That Could Happen: A Teaching Roundtable .  (Michael Martone, David Jauss, Josh Russell, Hugh Sheehy, Deb Olin Unferth)  On this panel, experienced teachers and theorists of creative writing craft discuss distinct pedagogical and theoretical viewpoints and how they came to form them. (Thursday 9 February 2017, 3:00PM / Marquis Salon 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)

F183.  Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Organizing and Structuring Story Collections.  (Sian Griffiths, Benjamin Hale, Marie-Helene Bertino, Michael Martone, Julia Elliott) Putting together a story collection can feel like assembling a jigsaw puzzle in which the pieces don’t quite fit and there is no one solution. The panel presents writers of interconnected, thematically connected, and unconnected stories to provide insight for story writers seeking to build their collections. (Friday 10 February 2017, 12:00PM / Archives, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four)

Michael Parker

F259.  The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro Celebrates 50 Years.  (Stuart Dischell, Ansel Elkins, Michael Parker, Craig Nova) Formalized in 1965, The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro is one of the oldest such programs in the country. Join us for multi-genre reading to celebrate our long history. (Friday 10 February 2017, 3:00PM / Cody D. Todd Memorial Stage, Sponsored by USC, Exhibit Halls D & E, Convention Center, Level Two)

Emilia Phillips 

S133.  The Art and Importance of the Poetry Interview. (Kaveh Akbar, Melissa Studdard, Camille Rankine, Emilia Phillips, Lindsay Garbutt)  Series hosts for Poetry, Cave Canem, VIDA, Divedapper, and 32 Poems, the panelists have conducted interviews via a variety of platforms and methods. Panelists will compare platforms, discuss the relevance of poetry interviews, and highlight techniques for fostering conversation that honors the complexity of poetry and maximizes an interview’s contribution to the poetry community and beyond. (Saturday 11 February 2017, 9:00AM / Room 207A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two)

Anne Valente

S237.  Wayfaring Stranger: Writing Away from Our Experience .  (Michael Croley, Richard Bausch, Brad Watson, Anne Valente, Laura van den Berg) Five writers discuss and share the challenges posed both in writing and publishing wayfaring stories and the process they use to allow themselves the courage to write about what they don’t know. (Saturday 11 February 2017, 3:00PM / Marquis Salon 7 & 8, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)

Laura Van Den Berg

F191.  Raising Hell: Writing from the Extremes.  (R. O. Kwon, Roxane Gay, Téa Obreht, Laura van den Berg, Catherine Chung) This reading presents fiction writers who have given voice to the baleful extremes of human experience. How should fiction writers think about depicting evil? What are potential difficulties? Join the panelists as they share perspectives and read from their work. (Friday 10 February 2017, 12:00PM / Room 202A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two)

S237.  Wayfaring Stranger: Writing Away from Our Experience .  (Michael Croley, Richard Bausch, Brad Watson, Anne Valente, Laura van den Berg) Five writers discuss and share the challenges posed both in writing and publishing wayfaring stories and the process they use to allow themselves the courage to write about what they don’t know. (Saturday 11 February 2017, 3:00PM / Marquis Salon 7 & 8, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)

Bull City Staff have panels too!

Carmen Maria Machado: R142 Writing from the Wound (Thursday 2/9, 10:30am; Marquis Salon 9 & 10, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two). & S271 The Short Story as Laboratory (Saturday 2/11, 4:30pm; Marquis Salon 9 & 10, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)

Matthew Olzmann: F238 Alice James Books New and Emerging Authors Reading. (Friday, 2/10, 3:00 pm: Marquis Salon 5, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)

 

 

…and a selection of panels with INCH contributors 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: F192 American Smooth: A Tribute to Rita Dove (Friday 2/10, 12:00pm; room 202B, Washington Convention Center, Level Two). &  S160 Orion‘s 35th Anniversary: Nature Writing at the Edge  (Saturday 2/11, 10:30am; room 202B, Washington Convention Center, Level Two).

Vievee Francis: R249 Poet at Springtime: A Reading and Conversation on John Keats and Countee Cullen, Sponsored by Folger Shakespeare Library (Thursday 2/9, 3:00pm; Ballroom C, Washington Convention Center, Level Three). &  S159 Arsenic Icing: Sentiment as Threat in Contemporary American Women’s Poetry (Saturday 2/11, 10:30am; room 202A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two)

Kathleen Rooney: F231 Surviving the End Times: Finishing a First, Second, or Fifth Book (Friday 2/10, 1:30pm; room 207A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two), &  S280 Attempting the Impossible: Strategies for Writing Creative Biography (Saturday 2/11, 4:30pm; room 101, Washington Convention Center, Level One)

 

A couple of panels with contributors to Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series

francine j. harris: F238 Alice James Books New and Emerging Authors Reading (Friday 2/10, 3:00pm; Marquis Salon 5, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two). & S107 I’ll Take You There: Place in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction (Saturday 2/10, 9:00am; Marquis Salon 1 & 2, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two).

Reginald Dwayne Betts: R139 Which Comes First, Activism or Artist? (Thursday 2/9, 10:30am; Marquis Salon 5, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two)