See you in Chicago for this year’s AWP!

At the 2027 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago next March, Kate will join fellow writers and editors for a panel entitled “From Both Sides of the Mirror: The Writer as Editor, the Editor as Writer.” Alongside Philip Graham, Ross Barkan, Thomas Mira Y Lopez, and Thammika Songkaeo, Kate will explore the daily page-level struggles and creative breakthroughs of writers who also serve as literary editors. Panelists will share how refining their internal editorial lenses shapes their own creative work and helps them provide more encouraging guidance to emerging authors submitting work. Read on for more details; we look forward to seeing you at AWP!

Writers who also serve as editors can, from their own daily struggles and explorations on the page, gain insight on how to give advice that might help encourage a newly submitted work of art to its possible best place. Understanding each side of the literary mirror, whether as the edited or the editor, offers insight on how a writer can eventually reveal their own voice on the blank page and find the steady place that could serve one well