AWP Conference 2025:
Pain & Prose Navigating Difficult Emotions in Storytelling
Los Angeles Convention Center | March 26-29, 2025
Thursday, March 27 | 12:10 - 1:25 PM
Room 503, Level Two
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How do writers navigate emotionally difficult material while protecting their own well-being? This panel explores embracing vulnerability, finding emotional truth, and ethical considerations when portraying intense emotions in fiction and narrative nonfiction. Panelists will share techniques for crafting powerful emotional scenes while maintaining their mental health.
🎙 Speakers:
- Faith Adiele (Presenter)
- Steve Almond (Presenter)
- April Davila (Moderator)
AWP CONFERENCE 2025: Meditation for Writers
Los Angeles Convention Center – March 26-29, 2025
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These one-hour meditation sessions are designed to help writers cultivate focus, clarity, and creative flow through mindfulness, providing a space to reconnect with creativity, quiet the inner critic, and approach their work with greater intention.
Session Schedule:
Quieting the Inner Critic | March 27 | 1:45 - 2:45 PM | Room 510, Level Two
Explore techniques to shift self-judgment into self-compassion and free yourself from negative inner dialogue.
Seeing Clearly | March 28 | 12:10 - 1:10 PM | Room 510, Level Two
Learn to see things as they truly are, in the present moment, without judgment, and bring greater awareness to your writing.
Compassion Practice | March 29 | 12:10 - 1:10 PM | Room 510, Level Two
Discover mindfulness techniques to cultivate kindness and compassion for yourself and others, fostering a more supportive creative practice.
No mats or yoga apparel are necessary—just come as you are in comfortable street clothes and take time to center yourself in a welcoming, writer-focused space.
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