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co-sponsored by the new school graduate writing program.

NOVEMBER 20-22, 2008 } A three-day conference for fiction, poetry, and creative-nonfiction writers learning how to maneuver in the marketplace. Meet writers, editors, agents, publicists and publishers. Check back for a full schedule and a list of participants. In the meantime, here's what last year's conference had to offer.

Thursday November 8
GALA KICK-OFF RECEPTION AND DISCUSSION—THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLISHING A FIRST BOOK
Friday November 9
Saturday November 10
FEATURING } Chuck Adams (Algonquin Books). Harold Augenbraum (The National Book Foundation). Jessica Stockton Bagnulo (The Written Nerd/McNally Robinson). Ishmael Beah (A LONG WAY GONE). Susan Bell (THE ARTFUL EDIT: ON THE PRACTICE OF EDITING YOURSELF). Paul Bogaards and Gary Fisketjon (Knopf). Kera Bolonik (IN THE WEEDS). Sarah Burnes (The Gernert Company). Robert N. Casper (jubilat). Sarah Crichton (FSG). Dawn Davis (Amistad). Nicole Dewey (Doubleday). Adriana Dominguez (Harper Children's). Mark Doty (DOG YEARS). Joshua Ellison (Habitus). Mitch Epstein (RECREATION: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS 1973-1988). Elliot Figman (Poets & Writers). Anna Godbersen (THE LUXE). Myla Goldberg (WICKETT'S REMEDY). Nan Graham (Scribner). Steve Hamilton (Mad Mad Judy). Ron Hogan (Beatrice/Galleycat). Bob Holman (The Bowery Poetry Club). Ron Kavanaugh (Mosaic). Lewis H. Lapham (Lapham's Quarterly). Kate Lee (ICM). Jeffrey Lependorf, Jay Baron Nicorvo and Jamie Schwartz (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses). Paulette Licitra (Alimentum). Maria Mileaf (Director, BLITHE SPIRIT). Albert Mobilio (Bookforum). Richard Nash (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). Sara Nelson (Publishers Weekly). Daniel Nester (GOD SAVE MY QUEEN I & II). Thisbe Nissen (OSPREY ISLAND). Susan Orlean (THE ORCHID THIEF). James P. Othmer (THE FUTURIST). Bethanne Patrick (The Book Maven). Dale Peck (THE GARDEN OF LOST AND FOUND). Sheila Pleasants (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts). Robert Polito (The New School). Alice Quinn (The New Yorker). David Rakoff (DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE). Richard Russo (BRIDGE OF SIGHS).Salvatore Scibona (Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown). Vijay Seshadri (THE LONG MEADOW). Ira Silverberg (Donadio & Olson). Irene Skolnick (Irene Skolnick Agency). Laurel Snyder (HALF/LIFE). Nat Sobel and Judith Weber (Sobel Weber Associates). Scott Spencer (WILLING). Amanda Stern (Happy Endings Reading Series). Amy Stolls (PALMS TO THE GROUND). Emily Takoudes (Ecco). Christina Thompson (Harvard Review). Jude Watson (AGAINST THE EMPIRE: STAR WARS). Matt Weiland (The Paris Review). Brenda Wineapple (HAWTHORNE: A LIFE). Annie Wedekind (A HORSE OF HER OWN). Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse).

Press from LWC}NYC:
"Have Writing Degree, Will Travel," by Molly McQuade, Poetry Foundation
"The Business of the Book," The Virginia Quarterly Review

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Recommendations for economical hotel accommodations:
"10 New York Hotels for Under $250 a Night," The New York Times
"Best Hotels at $150 or Less," New York Magazine

Where to find LWC}NYC:
The New School Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Building
66 W. 12 St.
New York, NY 10011

Here's what LWC}NYC '06 had to offer.

LWC}NYC is a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp]. Cosponsored by Donadio & Olson, The National Book Foundation, The New School Graduate Writing Program, Poets & Writers, and Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.