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co-sponsored by the new school graduate writing program, LWC}NYC is a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp], in partnership with Sobel Weber Associates, The National Book Foundation, Sterling Lord Literistic, and Poets & Writers.

NOVEMBER 21-22, 2009 } A two-day conference for fiction, poetry, and creative-nonfiction writers learning how to maneuver in the marketplace. Meet writers, editors, agents, publicists and publishers from Publishers Weekly, Oxford University Press, Scribner, Hachette Book Group, Graywolf, the Poetry Society of America, Bloomsbury, Knopf, the Academy of American Poets and more.

REGISTER NOW } OR TO REGISTER BY PHONE, PLEASE CALL 212.741.9110 x 16

THIS YEAR—Price includes two working lunches
+ new Industry Insider Bagel Mingle: editors, agents, bagels!

Saturday November 21
Sunday November 22

FEATURING } Jeff Alexander (Vintage / Anchor) Helen Atsma (Henry Holt) Harold Augenbraum (The National Book Foundation) Catherine Barnett (INTO PERFECT SPHERES SUCH HOLES ARE PIERCED) Sarah Burnes (The Gernert Company) Robert N. Casper (Poetry Society of America / jubilat) Caroline Crumpacker (The Millay Colony for the Arts) Adam Day (Memorious) TJ English (HAVANA NOCTURNE) Elliot Figman (Poets & Writers) David Haglund (PEN America) Elizabeth Haukaas (LEAP) Bob Hershon (Hanging Loose Press) Brigid Hughes (A Public Space) Ron Kavanaugh (Mosaic) Eugenia Kim (THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER) Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Sam Lipsyte (THE ASK) Dan Machlin (Futurepoem) Bruce McPherson (McPherson & Company) Andrew Miller (Knopf) Marie Mutsuki Mockett (PICKING BONES FROM ASH) Lisa Moore (RedBone Press) Sara Nelson (SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME) Jay Baron Nicorvo (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Thisbe Nissen (OSPREY ISLAND) Ethan Nosowsky (Creative Capital / Graywolf) Robert Polito (The New School) Joanna Smith Rakoff (A FORTUNATE AGE) Becky Saletan (Riverhead Books) Amy Scholder (The Feminist Press) Jamie Schwartz (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Ira Silverberg (Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.) Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.) Rob Spillman (Tin House) Lorin Stein (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Tree Swenson (Academy of American Poets) Kate Travers (powerHouse Books) Judith Weber (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.) Joel Whitney (Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics) Brenda Wineapple (WHITE HEAT) Rebecca Wolff (Fence / THE KING) Monica Youn (BARTER) Todd Zuniga (Opium Magazine)

 
Press from LWC}NYC:
   "Have Writing Degree, Will Travel," by Molly McQuade, Poetry Foundation
   "The Business of the Book," The Virginia Quarterly Review

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Recommendations for economical hotel accommodations:
   "10 New York Hotels for Under $250 a Night," The New York Times
   "Best Hotels at $150 or Less," New York Magazine

Where to find LWC}NYC:
   The New School
   Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Building
   66 W. 12 St.
   New York, NY 10011

Here's what LWC}NYC '08 had to offer.
 


LWC}NYC Planning Board: Harold Augenbraum, Jeffrey Lependorf, Robert Polito, Ira Silverberg, Nat Sobel and Judith Weber

LWC}NYC Program Director: Jay Baron Nicorvo

LWC}NYC Program Associate: Tasha Sorenson ()