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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, Poets & Writers, and the PEN American Center.

NOVEMBER 20-22, 2008 } A three-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. Kick-off panel discussion with Richard Price and his publishing team from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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

Thursday November 20
GALA KICK-OFF RECEPTION AND DISCUSSION: THE ANATOMY OF A BOOK—LUSH LIFE
Friday November 21
Saturday November 22
FEATURING } Allison Amend (THINGS THAT PASS FOR LOVE) Harold Augenbraum (The National Book Foundation) André Bernard (ROTTEN REJECTIONS) Jill Bialosky (THE LIFE ROOM / W.W. Norton) Sarah Burnes (The Gernert Company) Robert N. Casper (Poetry Society of America / jubilat) Alexander Chee (EDINBURGH: A NOVEL) Caroline Crumpacker (The Millay Colony for the Arts) Thomas Sayers Ellis (THE MAVERICK ROOM) TJ English (HAVANA NOCTURNE) Jofie Ferrari-Adler (Grove/Atlantic) Elliot Figman (Poets & Writers) Molly Friedrich (The Friedrich Agency) Matthew Aaron Goodman (HOLD LOVE STRONG) Jessica Hagedorn (DREAM JUNGLE) Emily Gould (HEX EDUCATION) Matthea Harvey (MODERN LIFE) Sulay Hernandez (The Touchstone and Fireside Group) Melissa Kirsch (THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING) Binnie Kirshenbaum (AN ALMOST PERFECT MOMENT) Benee Knauer (Victoria Sanders & Associates) Brendan I. Koerner (NOW THE HELL WILL START) Jennifer Kronovet (AWAYWARD) David Lehman (The Best American Poetry) Jeffrey Lependorf (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Ruth Liebmann (Random House) Reb Livingston (YOUR TEN FAVORITE WORDS/No Tell Books) Marie Mockett (PICKING BONES FROM ASH) Sara Nelson (Publishers Weekly) Lynn Nesbit (Janklow & Nesbit Associates) Jay Baron Nicorvo (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Thisbe Nissen (OSPREY ISLAND) Ethan Nosowsky (Creative Capital / Graywolf) Ed Park (PERSONAL DAYS / The Believer) Michael Pietsch (Little, Brown and Company) Robert Polito (The New School) Richard Price (LUSH LIFE) Becky Saletan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Victoria Sanders (Victoria Sanders & Associates) Luc Sante (KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS: PIECES 1990-2005) Jamie Schwartz (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) Ira Silverberg (Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.) Eric Simonoff (Janklow & Nesbit Associates) Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.) Rob Spillman (Tin House) Anna Stein (Irene Skolnick Agency) Lorin Stein (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Amanda Stern (THE LONG HAUL / The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series) Terese Svoboda (BLACK GLASSES LIKE CLARK KENT) Tree Swenson (Academy of American Poets) Jackson Taylor (THE BLUE ORCHARD / PEN American Center) Craig Morgan Teicher (BRENDA IS IN THE ROOM AND OTHER POEMS) Judith Weber (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.) Matt Weiland (STATE BY STATE / The Paris Review) Colson Whitehead (SAG HARBOR: A NOVEL) Joanna Yas (Open City)

 
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

Press release for LWC}NYC '08

Here's what LWC}NYC '07 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 ()