The Taos AWP Cheat Sheet!

Headed to the AWP conference next week in Chicago? Overwhelmed by the eight million panels going on every hour?

Us too. Good luck. But as you investigate all the goings-on, be sure to check out the panels that feature members of this year's Taos faculty!

Click on their names to link to their Taos course descriptions. And for the full list of AWP panels, click here. Enjoy!

THURSDAY MARCH 1

9:00-10:15 Priscilla Long at R113. New Media for New (and Old) Authors and Writers
(Priscilla Long, Matt Briggs, Waverly Fitzgerald, Rebecca Agiewich, Cynthia Hartwig) 

Private Dining Room 2, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor

12:00-1:15  AntonyaNelson at R153.  Writing the American West
(D. Seth Horton, Antonya Nelson, Toni Jensen, K. L. Cook, Claire Vaye Watkins)
Continental B, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level

 3:00-4:15 Antonya Nelson at R212. There Will Be Blood: Writing Violence in Fiction
(Alexi Zentner, Antonya Nelson, Benjamin Percy, Alan Heathcock)  

Waldorf, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

10:30-11:45 Summer Wood at F129. Honoring the Heartland: Midwestern Poets Celebrate Richness of Place 

(Renny Golden, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Patricia Clark, Patricia Monaghan, Summer Wood) 

Continental C, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level

12:00-1:15 Hilda Raz at F161. Generation, Inheritance, and Collaboration: Parent/Child Writers (Nicole Cooley, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jessica Fisher, Aaron Raz Link, Hilda Raz)
Private Dining Room 2, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor

3:00-415 ValerieMartinez at F208. Will Write for Food: Writers Working Outside Academia 

 (Chloe Miller, Alison Hicks, Patricia Lewis, Valerie Martinez) 

Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

9:00-10:15 Robert Boswell at S119. Character Matter
(Peter Turchi, Robert Boswell, Susan Neville, Caitlin Horrocks)
Grand Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor

1:30-2:45 Hilda Raz at S178. Every Day I Live, I Live Forever: The Poetry of Robert Dana
(Rick Campbell, Hilda Raz, Donald Morrill, David Hamilton, Rick Ryan) 

Lake Erie, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor

1:30-2:45 Carole DeSanti AND Alice Elliot Dark (how cool!) at S190. Unrequited Love: Renewing Your Vows to the Troublesome Novel 

(Elizabeth Brundage, Stewart O’Nan, Jenna Blum, Alice Elliot Dark, Carole DeSanti) 

Honoré Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, Lobby Level

More Book News! Upcoming Releases from Taos 2012 Instructors Mark Sundeen and Carole DeSanti

Book news abounds!

On March 6th, at long last, Penguin will release Mark Sundeen's book "The Man Who Quit Money"--which we've had the pleasure of hearing him read at past years' Taos Conferences.

You can read an excerpt here, and you can already pre-order the book from Powells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Indiebound.

And, in the spirit of the whole money-less living theme, Penguin is inviting reading groups to submit event ideas in exchange for free copies of the book! If you've got a group and a pitch (and fast fingers: the deadline is tomorrow, February 17!) send an email to Caitlin.Mulrooney-Lyski@us.penguingroup.com.

And of course, after you buy the book, go ahead and register for Mark's class at this summer's Taos Conference: he'll be teaching a Weeklong Workshop in Travel Writing.

Carole DeSanti is attending this year's conference in her dual roles as fiction writer and hyper accomplished editor at Penguin. You can read  here about her weekend workshop in Fiction. Carole will also be available for Publishing Consultations.

Her debut novel, "The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.," comes out March 27 from Houghton Harcourt.

Carole's upcoming book was recently featured in Publishers' Weekly's "First Fiction" column. You can read an excerpt on her website, at this link. And find links to pre-order the book here.

Congratulations, Carole and Mark!