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AWP Panel: Socially Conscious Fiction: Writing That Can Change the World


  • Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place Northwest Washington, DC, 20001 United States (map)

During the 2017 AWP conference in DC, Allison will join fiction writers Jabari Asim, Garth Greenwell, Naomi Jackson, and Anna March to explore the topic of socially conscious fiction and its ability to lift us in today's sociopolitical climate. The panel will consider race, gender, sexuality, religion, class, ethnicity, and disability. Examples from relevant work will be offered and. Handouts: craft and bibliography.