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SIGNINGS, EVENTS, PANELS AT AWP 2026 🖊️ Booth 975

Booth Signing Schedule

Thursday 3/5

12pm: Kameryn Alexa Carter, Antediluvian

12:30pm: Barbara Hamby, Burn

1pm: Angela Ball, Steeplechase

1:30pm: Jan Beatty, Dragstripping

Friday 3/6

12:30pm: Lara Egger, Flop Era

1pm: Bill Gaythwaite, A Place in the World

1:30pm: Samyak Shertok, No Rhododendron

Saturday 3/7

12pm: Brian Gyamfi, What God in the Kingdom of Bastards

12:30pm: Bobby Elliott, The Same Man

1pm: Joan Naviyuk Kane, with snow pouring southward past the window

Events

AWP Awards Celebration, featuring:

No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Wednesday, March 4, 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET
Baltimore Ballroom A, Fifth Floor, Renaissance Harborplace Hotel

Details here: https://conference.awpwriter.org/2026_awards.cfm

University Press poetry reading

Featuring poets from the University of Wisconsin Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, and LSU Press

Wednesday, March 4, 7–9pm

Baltimore Museum of Industry (Communications Gallery)

University of Pittsburgh Press poets: Kameryn Alexa Carter, Lara Egger, Bobby Elliott, and Brian Gyamfi

Panel Discussion

So Many Writing Contests, So Little Time: Demystifying the Contest Experience

Saturday, March 7th, 3:20pm

Location: Room 310, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Featuring: Kelly Sather, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Bill Gaythwaite, Bobby Elliott, and Nate Marshall