AWP 2025: Rich Benjamin & Sloane Crosley in Conversation with Amelia Possanza (Sponsored by the Authors Guild)
Thursday, March 27, 2025
-3:20 pm-4:35 pm Pacific
Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, California
How do writers fill absences? Great literature is often created when the author writes the book only they can write—the book they want to read but that does not yet exist.
Rich Benjamin is the author of the award-winning Searching for Whitopia and, most recently, Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather’s presidency of Haiti.
Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, as well as Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp.
Benjamin and Crosley will read from their work, followed by conversation with Amelia Possanza, book publicist and Lambda Award–winning author of Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair is the essential gathering for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Join thousands of attendees, explore hundreds of events and exhibitors, and immerse in four days of vital literary community and celebration in Los Angeles.
Check out a list of over 600 literary organizations, small presses, literary magazines, university presses, MFA programs, and more exhibiting at this year’s Bookfair!
Visit the Authors Guild at Booth 440 to chat with staff, and bring a friend to meet us!