Priyanka Champaneri, author of The City of Good Death and winner of the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, will be joining the 2022 AWP Conference & Bookfair panel, “Book Tour Revolution: Strategies for the Current World.” Arranged by the Authors Guild to help writers with the business side of authorship, this panel will discuss event formats, promotions, and media strategies to revolutionize your next book tour.
In addition to offering an in-person event schedule in Philadelphia from March 23-26, 2022, AWP will incorporate a virtual component and offer an array of prerecorded virtual events. A virtual-only registration will be available for #AWP22 at a reduced registration rate. The in-person registration will include all in-person and virtual programming.
When: March 25 at 12:10pm to 1:25pm EST
Where: 113A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level & Online, via Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Participants:
Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. Her debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Erin Lowry is the author of the three-part Broke Millennial series, including: Broke Millennial, Broke Millennial Takes On Investing, and Broke Millennial Talks Money: Scripts, Stories and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations. Erin has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS Sunday Morning, CNBC, and The Rachael Ray Show.
Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she double-majored in English and International Relations.
Tim Herrera is the founder of Freelancing With Tim, a suite of educational resources designed to help journalists navigate the industry. He previously worked at The New York Times, where he helped launch then edited Smarter Living, the home for service journalism at the Times.
Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist, in that order. His debut middle-grade novel, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor.