March brings one of the highlights of the American literary year, the annual AWP Book Fair. Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different city to celebrate the authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and independent publishers of that region. The conference typically features 550 readings, lectures, panel discussions, and forums, as well as hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. This year the event will be held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, March 6 – 9.

Mayapple Press will have a booth at the fair and several of our authors will stop by to meet readers and to sign copies of their books. We’ll have staff at the table all through the convention and we’d love to see you. Our table is Hall A on the Plaza Level, Table #E3.

Mayapple Press Author Signing Schedule AWP 2013
Plaza Level, Hall A, Table # E3

Thursday, March 7
Nancy Botkin (author of “Parts That Once Were Whole”) 11am – 12pm
Margo Solod (author of “Some Very Soft Days”) 2pm – 3pm

Friday, March 8
Sally Rosen Kindred (author of “No Eden”) 12pm – 1pm
Andrei Guruianu (author of “Metal and Plum – A Memoir”) 1pm – 2pm
Nola Garrett (author of the latest Mayapple Press publication “The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball”) 2pm – 3pm
Marilyn Jurich (author of “Defying the Eye Chart”) 3pm – 4pm

Saturday, March 9
Mary Winegarden (author of the American Book Award winning “The Translator’s sister”) 11am – 12pm
Marjorie Manwaring (author of “Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape”) 12pm – 1pm
Mary Alexandra Agner (author of “The Doors of the Body”) 1pm – 2pm

Mayapple will also be presenting at least four of our authors reading on stage on Saturday morning. Poetry is a wholly different experience when you hear the author read it herself! Our reading starts at 9:00 am, Saturday March 9, on the stage in Hall A.

Mayapple Press Author Reading Schedule AWP 2013
Patricia Olson Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Hall A

Saturday, March 9 9:00am – 10:15am
Marjorie Manwaring (author of “Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape”)
Nola Garrett (author of the latest Mayapple Press publication “The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball”)
Mary Winegarden (author of the American Book Award winning “The Translator’s sister”)
Mary Alexandra Agner (author of “The Doors of the Body”)

To celebrate AWP, books from each of the authors attending the fair with us will be on sale in the “Books of the Month” section of our webiste. Use the secure online ordering system to ensure you get the sale price.