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Here are all our daily stories of the AWP 2017 Conference, which took place in Washington D.C. between February 8-11.

This year's politically-charged AWP conference concluded Saturday evening with a candlelight vigil outside the White House and good sales reported from the book fair floor.

The AWP book fair, always a centerpiece of the conference experience, was as politically charged as this year's panels and protests.

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Washington D.C. continued in a highly politicized vein through its second day, with a march and rally at the Capitol building, in addition to a packed event featuring Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

AWP 2017's keynote speaker, Azar Nafisi, the author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' blasted President Trump in a fiery presentation and urged writers to use their imaginations to resist the tyranny of the Trump administration.

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, kicked off its annual conference on Thursday with politics on people's minds, as exhibitors, panelists and attendees expressed their opposition to the Trump presidency.

Jim Bankoff turned Vox into a content juggernaut, a purpose-built digital media company; at PubTech Connect, he’ll discuss what it takes to build the media company of the future

Anti-Trump protests and political actions are planned throughout this year’s AWP conference.

Sree Sreenivasan and Kinsey Wilson, two titans of digital media, are revolutionizing New York City and the ‘New York Times’ for the digital age

Political and cultural issues dominated the discussion at the American Bookseller Association's Winter Institute conference.