AWP 2019 has just swept through Portland, but the planning for the next one, AWP 2020 in San Antonio, TX, is already underway. I have submitted a panel proposal to the AWP 2020 conference organizers titled “Nurturing Future Danticats and Nabokovs: How to Engage Multilingual and ESL Students in Creative Writing.” If accepted, our panel will feature presenters from around the country – California, Kansas, North Carolina, and Texas – sharing ideas for how to engage our multilingual and non-native students in creative writing activities. The panel description is below:

Multilingual and ESL students, a sizable segment of college populations, are traditionally underrepresented in writing courses. How do we help them develop their voices? How can we tailor writing pedagogies to their needs? Community college panelists from around the country discuss teaching creative writing and publishing to migrant farmworkers, utilizing poetry translation in multilingual classrooms, refocusing grading policies to foster creativity, and tips for successful inclusion of these students in writing contests and literary journals.

Lane Igoudin
Member, Two-Year College Writing Caucus, AWP

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