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Association for Writers and Writing Programs 2026

March 04, 2026 / Baltimore, MD

We look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the Press in person at the 2026 AWP conference!

We're joining you in Baltimore! Browse new literature and literary studies titles in the bookfair hall at table T887 or in the list below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Through April 29, 2026, use code AWP26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.

Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

Book

The cover is a coral to sage gradient with a grainy texture featuring a white fine line illustration. The illustration is abstract featuring plant-like objects and scissors.

unrest in the nebulae

Gitan Djeli

Book

Cover of Runagate is tan with a colorful circular detail from a quilt that features a tree with yellow leaves and a figure of a Black person carrying a bundle tied to a stick over their shoulder.

Songs of the Freedom Bound

Crystal Simone Smith

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Cover of The Sound of Feathers features an image of multicolored iridescent feathers fills the entire design. The title is in a white serif font at the top with the subtitle in yellow below it.

The Sound of Feathers

Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves

Kathryn Gillespie

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Cover of Degas at the Gas Station is a solid mustard yellow with bold, navy blue typography.

Degas at the Gas Station

Essays

Thomas Beller

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Cover of Beneath the Skin of Sorrow features a black-and-white photograph of two smiling people overlaid on a pattern of purple, blue, and green ink blots.

Beneath the Skin of Sorrow

Improvisations on Loss

Nnenna Freelon

Book

Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.

My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

Book

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These Survivals

Autobiography of an Extinction

Lynne Huffer

Book

Cover of Beautiful Mystery features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.

Beautiful Mystery

Living in a Wordless World

Danilyn Rutherford

Book

After Transformation cover image

After Transformation

A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity

Maia Kotrosits

Book

The cover background is light beige and textured, featuring faint text blocks. The title is displayed in large, colorful letters with each word in a different vibrant hue.

Clowns in the Burying Ground

The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy

Christopher K. Coffman

Book

Cover of Star Charting by Bess Matassa. Cover is sky blue. The main title is in the middle in the same script (a star replaces the dot in the i in "Charting") and the author's signature is at the bottom.

Bess Matassa

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Cover of Doing Nothing by James Currie. Cover is light gray. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.

James Currie

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Cover of Riding by Pardis Mahdavi is lavender. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a black handwritten script. The title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.

Pardis Mahdavi

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Cover of Taking Leave by Deborah Kapchan is gray. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.

Deborah Kapchan

Book

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Inhabitants of the Deep

The Blueness of Blackness

Jonathan Howard

Book

Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging features collage-style illustrations of fragmented, grayscale pencil sketches of multiple women's faces, stacked above a shopping cart bookended by two headless figures.

Transatlantic Disbelonging

Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

Bimbola Akinbola

Book

On the right side of the cover Spoiled, a dramatic photograph shows a woman with her head tilted back. A long stream of honey pours into the woman's open mouth from above. Intense lighting highlights the woman's features.

Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

Summer Kim Lee

Book

The top half of the Cover of Quiet Dawn, text sits against a black-blue gradient background. A small graphic of a rising sun divides the text. The lower half features abstract art by Haitian artist Frankétienne.

Jean-Claude Fignolé

Book

Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

Book

Unfurl cover image

Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

Eli Clare

Book

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What Had Happened Was

Therí Alyce Pickens

Book

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The Dream of a Common Movement

Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid

Urvashi Vaid

Book

The Years of Blood cover image

The Years of Blood

Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America

Alma Guillermoprieto

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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III cover image

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III

A Novel

Peter Weiss

Book

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The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies

Journal Issue

CLJ 77:2 cover image

Sensing Migrant Romanticism

Journal Issue

ELN 63:1 cover image

Refuge and Displacement

Solidarity, Care, Worldmaking

Journal Issue

GEN 58:2 cover image

Aestheticism Now!

Journal Issue

Beige cover with large red poetics today title and text listing issue theme editors and publication details.

Decentering Formalism

Social Lives of a Literary Theory

Journal Issue

Cover of the Romanic Review, Volume 116, Number 2, September 2025. The design features a purple and orange mosaic pattern with the issue theme Translation, Travel, Exchange Microhistory in Ibero-America printed at the top.

Translation, Travel, Exchange

Microhistory in Ibero-America

Journal Issue

Cover of <I>The South Atlantic Quarterly</I>, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme “Filming Capital” with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red la

Filming Capital

Journal Issue

Maroon cover with Theater title and image of stage scene featuring person in pig mask and multiple screens with similar masks

Theaters of Post-Truth

Journal Issue

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Environmental Humanities

Marianna R. Dudley and Colin Hoag, editors

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Modern Language Quarterly

A Journal of Literary History

Jeffrey Todd Knight, editor

Journal

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the minnesota review

a journal of creative and critical writing

Janell Watson, editor

Journal

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A Forum on Fiction

Kevin McLaughlin, editor

Journal

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Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture

Jennifer L. Holberg, editor

Journal

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Twentieth-Century Literature

Lee Zimmerman, editor

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