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James R. Gapinski’s AWP Bookfair table/booth picks

Apr 6, 2015

With over 700 presses and organizations represented at AWP, it’s difficult to see them all. Naturally, I need to start with a self-serving plug: your first stop should be Table #2025: The Conium Review. After that, explore as many new presses and publishers as possible (that’s my gameplan). But it’s good to have a few specific tables in mind—beacons amid the storm. Here are my top ten exhibitors (in order by table number):

Table #226: Gold Line Press / Ricochet Editions
Table #324: Small Beer Press
Table #343: Fiction Collective 2
Booth #415: NewPages.com
Table #422: NANO Fiction
Table #439: The Review Review
Table #925: Juked
Booth #1007: VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
Table #1122: [PANK] / Tiny Hardcore Press
Table #1837: Two Dollar Radio

So if you’re a bit lost, maybe use these tent-poles as your guide too. But don’t get stuck on lists and favorites; the most interesting conversations often come from presses you’ve never heard of.

About the Author

James R. Gapinski is The Conium Review‘s managing editor. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College. His work has appeared in theEEEL, NANO Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, Juked, Atticus Review, Word Riot, and elsewhere.