The Ploughshares Guide to AWP Baltimore 2026!
We’re excited to be in Baltimore for AWP from March 4-7 and hope to see you there! Stop by Table T427 to meet our staff, browse our latest issues, purchase merch, and lock in an AWP-exclusive discount on EWC submissions.
Be sure to visit our table for the following author signings:
March 5, 12:00-1:00: Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, copies of The Origin of Wounds available for purchase.
March 6, 3:00-4:00: Hadara Bar-Nadav, copies of The Animal is Chemical available for purchase.
March 7, 12:00-1:00: Justin Torres, Summer 2026 Guest Editor; copies of We the Animals and Blackouts available for purchase.
LIT UP: An Offsite Reading and Celebration
We’re teaming up with The Kenyon Review and The Adroit Journal for an offsite reading! Come for readings from Erin Belieu, Victoria Chang, Erica Dawson, James Allen Hall, Oliver de la Paz, and Felicia Zamora…and stay for the dance party! Learn more about the event and register in advance.
Author Panels and Signings
Browse the list below for panels featuring past contributors, guest editors, and other Ploughshares community members!
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 308, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
The Lyric “We” with Ilya Kaminsky, M.Nzadi Keita, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Taije Silverman, and Eleanor Wilner.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 314, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Collaborative Translation: Creativity & Praxis with Mary Jo Bang, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Katie Farris, Cynthia Hogue, and Khaled Mattawa.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Activating the Experimental Impulse: Prompts & Provocations with Jess Arndt, Lucy Ives, Lara Montes, Danielle Vogel, and Sheryda Warrener.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 324, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Queer Nostalgia in Fiction with David Crouse, Greg Hewett, Raki Kopernik, and Christopher Tradowsky.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 325, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Celebrating Sinister Wisdom, a Multicultural Lesbian Literary Journal, at Fifty with Julie Enszer, Jenny Factor, JP Howard, Cavar Sarah, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 10:35 AM – 11:50 AM EST
Location: Room 302, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Craft Across Borders: Writers with Immigrant Roots Discuss Craft with Khem Aryal, Joanna Eleftheriou, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Rajiv Mohabir, and Hasanthika Sirisena.
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 3:20 PM – 4:35 PM EST
Location: Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Say My Name, Say My Name: Reclaiming Identity in the Face of Violence with Jenny Molberg, Jameelah Lang, Courtney Faye Taylor, Felicia Zamora, and Meg Day.
Friday, March 6, 2026
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 301, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Flashes of Truth: A Celebration & Examination of the Flash Essay Form with Lilly Dancyger, Ira Sukrungruang, Rae Pagliarulo, and Jane Wong.
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 314, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
The Art & Craft of the Craft Book with Matt Bell, Gayle Brandeis, Heidi Czerwiec, Jehanne Dubrow, and Jason Schneiderman.
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Words from the Deep, Dark Woods: Using Fairy Tales as Foil & Fuse with Kate Bernheimer, Elline Lipkin, Oliver de la Paz, Emily Perez, and Jessica Stark.
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 11:00am-12:00pm
Booth Number: 1248, Exhibitor Name: Trio House Press
Book Signing: Daughter of Salt with Leila Farjami
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 11:00am-12:00pm
Booth Number: 1161, Exhibitor Name: Persea Books
Book Signing: SOFAR with Elizabeth Bradfield
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 12:10 PM – 1:25 PM EST
Location: Room 314, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Creative Aging: Writing with Elders with Andrea Ballou, Martha Collins, Gary Glazner, and Glecia Tatum.
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Location: Room 302, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Sustaining & Building Robust Literary Partnerships with Robin Black, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Rebecca Makkai, Kwoya Fagin Maples, and Chloe Martinez.
Friday, Mar 06, 2026 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Location: Room 323, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
“Bullet in the Brain”: Creative Writers on Book Criticism with Joanne Diaz, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Grace Talusan, and Anri Wheeler.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 309, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
The New Embodied Lyrics of Wild, Wild Tech with Erika Meitner, Urayoan Noel, Jennifer Steinorth, Kathy Wu, and Katherine Yang.
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 314, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Character Crisis: When the Surreal Becomes Our Reality with Diana Marie Delgado, Shayla Lawz, Mónica-Ramón Ríos, and Claudia Morales.
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Location: Room 317, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
From Short Story to Novel with Aaron Aceves, Santiago Sanchez, Sam Sax, Bobuq Sayed, and Lucas Schaefer.
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 10:35 AM – 11:50 AM EST
Location: Room 327, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Joy Hell-Bent & Necessary: Poets Rising Up with Humor, Jubilation & Delight with Nickole Brown, CMarie Fuhrman, Douglas Kearney, and Joseph Lanham.
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 12:10 PM – 1:25 PM EST
Location: Room 302, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Memory and the Creative Process: Poets & Writers Engaging the Archive with S. Erin Batiste, Dorothy Berry, keondra bills freemyn, Jessica C. Neal, and Tyehimba Jess.
Saturday, Mar 07, 3:20 PM – 4:35 PM EST
Location: Room 320, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Unsilenced: Poetic Testimonies of Domestic Violence with Jenny Molberg, Erin Hoover, Iliana Rocha, and Lisa Fay Coutley.