Reading: Austin Allen will read with Cody Walker and Greg Williamson
The Ivy Bookshop 6080 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, United StatesAustin Allen (author of Pleasures of the Game (winner of the 11th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize)) will read with Cody Walker (author of The Self-Styled No-Child and Shuffle and Breakdown) and Greg Williamson (author of The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, Errors in the Script, and The Silent Partner)
Stephen Yenser will read from his new collection of poems, Stone Fruit
Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAustin Allen will read from Pleasures of the Game
Red Harlem Reader series Suite Bar, 992 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesAustin Allen will read from his Hecht-Prize winning collection of poems, Pleasures of the Game
Meet The Waywiser-Press at 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair, in Washington, DC.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC, United StatesWaywiser will have a stand at the 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair, in Washington, DC. Meet some of our staff, and some of our authors, as well as buy some of our books. Further information about the 2017 can be found at AWP-Conference.
Book-signings on Waywiser’s AWP stand
Washington Convention Center 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC, United States12:00 Austin Allen will sign copies of his Hecht Prize-winning Pleasures of the Game
12:30 Jaimee Hills will sign copies of her Hecht Prize-winning How to Avoid Speaking
1:00 Greg Williamson will sign copies of his The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True
1:30 Hilary S. Jacqmin will sign copies of her Missing Persons
Hecht Prize / Waywiser Press Poetry Reading
The Den at Poltics & Prose Book Store 5015 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesTo end the 2017 AWP conference on a high, five former Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize winners will read in the first half of this event; then, after a short break, five other poets published by The Waywiser Press will also read. Do join us at DC's premier independent book store.
Austin Allen (Hecht Prize winner)
Geoffrey Brock (Hecht Prize winner)
Morri Creech (Hecht Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist)
Joseph Harrison (Guggenheim fellow)
Jaimee Hills (Hecht Prize winner)
Dora Malech (Clampitt fellow)
Eric McHenry (Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner)
Penelope Pelizzon (Norma Farber First Book Award winner)
Shelley Puhak (Hecht Prize winner)
Cody Walker (Clampitt fellow)
Publication: The Trumpiad – Cody Walker
The new U.S. president doesn’t read books, but for everyone else, there’s Cody Walker’s The Trumpiad, a blistering and hilarious take on America’s political collapse. Key Difference: I wouldn’t lump / Trump / in with Hitler and Mussolini. / Trump’s hands are littler. (They’re teeny.)
The Trumpiad will be published on April 29th 2017, which will mark Trump's 100th day in office.
All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU.
Joseph Harrison will read at the FlowerMart Festival, Baltimore
The Peabody Institute 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, United StatesJoseph Harrison, author of Someone Else's Name, Identity Theft, and Shakespeare's Horse, will read from his work. Reading with him will be former Poet Laureate of the UK, Andrew Motion, […]
Austin Allen will read from his new collection, Pleasures of the Game
Carmine Street Metrics Otto's Shrunken Head, 538 E. 14th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAustin Allen, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read from his prize-winning collection of poems, Pleasures of the Game. Reading with him will be Ernest Hilbert.
Philip Hoy will speak about Waywiser at the Winchester Writers Festival
Stripe Auditorium, University of Winchester Sparkford Road, Winchester, United KingdomPhilip Hoy, Editor-in-Chief of The Waywiser Press, and editor of A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald (forthcoming in October), will take part in Mslexia […]