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Looking to add to your shelves for Pride Month? Check out our staff-curated reading list!
Missed a TWC Live! event? No worries—just head to AWP’s YouTube channel and watch it now! Check out “Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest,” along with other exclusive video content on Writer’s TV.
The Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects welcome Washington-based artists of all disciplines to apply. These unrestricted project-based grants amounting to $2,500 will be awarded to sixty-five artists! Learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.
Resetting the Table is seeking a senior content writer to support their communications, development, and programmatic goals. AWP members can learn about this remote position on our Job List, or browse for more opportunities!
Happy pub day to AND NO ONE KNEW by Jennifer Manocherian! Build your TBR with new releases from our AWP Member Bookshelf.
In “Oiling Your Armor,” 2025 James Alan McPherson Prize winner Chital Mehta shares her journey with rejection and how she shifted her focus to find the joy in writing again. Members and subscribers can read the full piece in THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE.
Our twelve participating agents are ready to read your query letter! Check out who’s participating in this year’s Writer to Agent: Summer Edition, then register and submit by July 15—open to all AWP members.
Happy pub day to VAMOOSE: STORIES by @kandersonwriter.bsky.social and CONFIDENCES by Adela Zamudio, translated by @lauralnagle.bsky.social! Find these and more new releases on our AWP Member Bookshelf.
School’s out & the next issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE is now in session! Enjoy the summer sun while reading our cover story on writing the outdoors. Find inspiration in articles on world-building, how Costco inspired a debut novel, what’s lost when books become movies, & much more. Happy reading!
AWP recognizes Juneteenth as a time for both reflection and celebration. Read our latest Writer’s News piece for past TWC articles, past AWP events, upcoming online events, a staff-curated booklist celebrating Black history, and online resources.
AWP recognizes June 19, 1865, as the historic day when news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the last enslaved people in the United States, in Galveston, Texas—more than two years…
