National Book Critics Circle

The Annual Finalist Reading [canceled]
2020-03-11 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
This event has been canceled. Please direct any questions to lhertzel@bookcritics.org or mwinik@ubalt.edu.

AWP2020 NBCC Featured Reading with Louise Erdrich and Alice McDermott
2020-03-06 15:20 - 16:35
A reading and conversation with novelists Louise Erdrich (NBCC fiction awards for Love Medicine and LaRose, launching The Night Watchman) and Alice McDermott (NBCC fiction finalist for Someone and The Ninth Hour, National Book Award for Charming Billy). Moderated by former NBCC President Kate Tuttle. Introductions by former NBCC President Jane Ciabattari.

Visit Booth 1455 to meet NBCC members and board members and sign up for membership, including “Friend of” and Student memberships and to learn about our new Emerging Critics program and 2019 awards.

HemisFair Ballroom C3, Henry B. González Center, Ballroom Level. San Antonio, TX

AWP 2020 Everyone's A Critic: Getting Started in Book Reviewing and Why You Should
2020-03-05 13:45 - 15:00
With Marion Winik, Tess Taylor, Richard Santos, Claiborne Smith, and Gregg Barrios
Whether you are just emerging from an MFA program or are an established writer and teacher, joining the national literary conversation by reviewing books can boost your career, build your sense of community, and even make you a little money. in this nuts and bolts session, working critics and book editors describe their career paths, discuss how to get galleys, find markets and pitch book editors, and touch on ethical aspects of reviewing. Useful online resources will be shared.
Room 207, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level

NBCC at AWP19 The Future of Criticism: A Conversation with Established and Emerging Critics
2019-09-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Oregon Convention Center (Level 1), 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
In a moment of rapid change, noted emerging and established critics gather and ask: What is the purpose of criticism now? How do we speak? To whom? Who do we imagine our audience(s) to be, and how do we reach them? As modes and means of distributing information increase, what forms of criticism have use and impact? And most importantly, in a world in flux, are critics activists?
Moderator:
Kate Tuttle, President of the National Book Critics Circle, writes about books for the Boston Globe. Her reviews have also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsday. Her essays on childhood, race, and politics have appeared in Dame, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Jane Ciabattari is a literary critic and author of the story collections Stealing the Fire and California Tales. She is National Book Critics Circle VP/Online (and a former NBCC president), a columnist for BBC Culture and The Literary Hub, and a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
Ismail Muhammad is staff writer at the Millions, contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a Ph.D. candidate in English at U.C. Berkeley. His nonfiction and criticism have appeared in Slate, Paris Review, the Nation, and other venues. He’s at work on a novel about the Great Migration.
Oscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. He is a former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a past board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He is also a contributing editor to Literary Hub.
Hope Wabuke is the author of The Leaving and Movement No.1: Trains. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2017, and has been published widely in various magazines. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a contributing editor for The Root.
