LWC } NYC

LWC}NYC is a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] with Sterling Lord Literistic, The National Book Foundation, The New School Graduate Writing Program, Poets & Writers, The Association of Authors' Representatives and Sobel Weber Associates, Inc., and with support from Amazon.com.

NOVEMBER 3-4, 2011 } 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.

Thursday November 3

QUERY LETTER CLINIC 10:30-12

Brian de Fiore, Miriam Altschuler, Gina maccoby, Jenni Ferrari-Adler,Evan Gregory, Madeleine Morel, Irene Skolnick
LITERARY AGENTS 101 12:15-1:45

with Nat Sobel and Judith Weber
ASSEMBLING THE POETRY COLLECTION 12:15-1:45

with Jonathan Galassi, E. Tracy Grinnell, and Rachel Levitsky
HOW TO GET WORK INTO LIT MAGS 2-3:15

with Mina Proctor, Jamie Schwartz, Rob Spillman, and Joel Whitney
HOW TO GET GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 3:30-5pm

with Elliot Figman and Jeffrey Lependorf
WELCOME RECEPTION 5-6:30pm

Friday November 4

OPENING LINES CLINIC 10-11:30

Kate Garrick, Rene Zuckerbrot, Evan Gregory, Katie Grimm, Sarah Levitt, Eliza Rothstein
CASE STUDY OF A MEMOIR 11:45-1:15

with Gail Hochman and Robert Leleux
CASE STUDY OF A NOVEL 11:45-1:15

with Christopher Beha and Sarah Burnes
CASE STUDY OF A POETRY COLLECTION 11:45-1:15

with Stephen Motika and Paul Legault
A CONVERSATION WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION Working Lunch 1:30-2:45

with Harold Augenbraum and Emma Straub
REJECTION, REVISION & RESUBMISSION 3-4:30pm

with Elizabeth Bewley, Nathaniel Jacks, and Brook Wilensky-Lanford
HOW TO MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF 4:45-6:5

with Julie Barer, Jon Fine, Richard Flores, and Kate Travers

This event made possible through significant support from

And with additional support from

FEATURING } Miriam Altshuler (Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency). Harold Augenbraum (The National Book Foundation). Julie Barer (Barer Literary). Christopher Beha (Whatever Happened to Sophia Wilder). Elizabeth Bewley (Little, Brown). Sarah Burnes (The Gernert Company). Brian de Fiore (De Fiore and Company). Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Brick House Literary Agents). Elliot Figman (Poets & Writers). Jon Fine (Amazon.com). Richard Florest (Open Road Media). Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Kate Garrick (De Fiore and Company). Evan Gregory (Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency). Katie Grimm (Don Congdon Associates). E. Tracy Grinnell (Litmus Press). Gail Hochman (Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents). Nathaniel Jacks (Inkwell Management). Paul Legault (The Other Poems). Robert Leleux (Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy). Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses). Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna). Sarah Levitt (Zoe Pagnamenta agency). Gina Maccoby (Gina Maccoby Literary Agency). Madeline Morel (2M Communications Ltd). Stephen Motika (Nightboat Books). Robert Polito (The New School). Minna Proctor (The Literary Review). Eliza Rothstein (Susan Golomb Agency). Jamie Schwartz (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses). Ira Silverberg (Sterling Lord Literistic). Irene Skolnick (Irene Skolnick Agency). Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates). Rob Spillman (Tin House). Emma Straub (Other People We Married). Kate Travers (F+W Media). Joel Whitney (Guernica). Brook Wilensky-Lanford (Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden). Renee Zuckerbort (Renee Zuckerbort Literary Agency). Agents from Association of Authors Representatives. And More!

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 '10 had to offer.

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

LWC}NYC Program Director: Steph Opitz

LWC}NYC Program Associate: Tasha Sorenson ()