Thursday, April 9, 2015
Minneapolis Convention Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stephanie will present on two panels at the 2015 AWP Conference:
“Writers Write, No Matter What: The Role of the Writing Prompt in the Classroom and Beyond” with Wendy Call, Anastacia Tolbert, and Sejal Shah. Writers of poetry, fiction, essay, and memoir will share favorite writing prompts. Each panelist—representing Cave Canem, Kundiman, or Macondo—will offer specific pedagogical strategies and learning outcomes for their writing prompts. Audience members will add a favorite writing prompt to a collective basket and later receive the entire collection via email. Panelists will begin and end this generative session with writing exercises that build upon each other and offer an extensive bibliography. Thursday, April 9 from 4:30 to 5:45 pm at Auditorium Room 3, Level 1, of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
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“The Stepmother Tongue: Crossing Languages in CNF” with Julija Sukys, Ruth Behar, Jennifer Zoble, and Joanna Eleftheriou. This panel convenes writers who work in and out of languages. All writing is, in some sense, a process of translation, but what happens when a writer literally moves between languages and cultures? What does it mean, for example, to write in English about an experience lived in Spanish, Russian, or Greek? Does it matter if a language is inherited or learned? How does the language change a writer’s insider/outsider status when s/he goes abroad or returns home both literally and figuratively? Friday, April 10 from 9 to 10:15 am in Room M100 F&G, Mezzanine Level, of the Minneapolis Convention Center.