Association of Writers and Writing Programs

The Paris Review will attend the AWP Conference this year in Portland, Oregon. The AWP Conference and Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than 12,000 attendees join our community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature. The conference features over 2,000 presenters and 550 readings, panels, and craft lectures. The bookfair hosted over 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations from around the world. AWP’s is now the largest literary conference in North America.

We’ll be at Booth #5065 and our editor, Emily Nemens, will be participating in two panels:

Behind the Curtain: The Editors Speak, with Christian Kiefer, Oscar Villalon, Allison Wright, and Karissa Chen 

She/He Said: Resisting, Dealing With & Benefiting From Editors’ Suggestions, with David Kirby, Laura Brown, Jessica Faust, and Edward Falco

If you will be at AWP, please stop by and say hello!

Oregon Convention Center

777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland, 97232

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The Paris Review Spring Revel

The Revel is one of The Paris Review’s oldest traditions—and its most anticipated. The event celebrates writers and writing and provides the core support necessary to carry on the vital work of the magazine. The Paris Review has become a beloved literary institution after sixty-five years in publication, and the Revel brings together cultural leaders, friends and readers of the magazine, emerging and established writers, and devoted patrons of the arts for a legendary party. This year we will honor Deborah Eisenberg with our lifetime achievement award, presented by Maggie Gyllenhaal; Kelli Jo Ford with our Plimpton Award for new fiction, presented by Richard Ford; and Benjamin Nugent with our Terry Southern Prize for Humor, presented by Elif Batuman.

To purchase tickets please visit our shop site.

Cipriani 42nd Street

110 East 42nd Street, New York, 10017

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The Parisian: Isabella Hammad and Emily Nemens

Emily Nemens will be in conversation with author Isabella Hammad to celebrate the publication of The Parisian. 

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize–winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period in Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, and an aesthete, he leaves in 1914 to study medicine in France, and falls in love. When Midhat returns to Nablus to find it under British rule, and the entire region erupting with nationalist fervor, he must find a way to cope with his conflicting loyalties and the expectations of his community. The story of Midhat’s life develops alongside the idea of a nation, as he and those close to him confront what it means to strive for independence in a world that seems on the verge of falling apart. Against a landscape of political change that continues to define the Middle East, The Parisian explores questions of power and identity, enduring love, and the uncanny ability of the past to disrupt the present. Lush, immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction.

Isabella Hammad was born in London. She won the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story “Mr. Can’aan.” Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions and The Paris Review. The Parisian is her first novel.

Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in 2018. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review have been selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

More information about this event can be found here.

McNally Jackson

52 Prince St, New York, 10012

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Paris Review Poets

The Poetry Center continues its long-running collaboration with The Paris Review with a reading by poets featured in the magazine this year. 

For more information visit the 92Y website. 

The 92 Street Y

1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, 10128

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