Events

2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair

Ms. Aligned author Grace Loh Prasad will be in Kansas City for the 2024 AWP event. Find out more about her on her contributor page.

2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair

We had fun at the conference, talking with contributors and meeting folks at our booth, which we shared with the University of Hawai‘i Press. Big thanks to Alicia Upano, journals manager of UH Press, our booth mate; Donna Miele, who had a large placard made to promote Ms. Aligned 4; and Rachel King, who helped her with promoting and selling copies. Also thanks to our friend Gregory Dobrasz, who carried a heavy box of copies on the first day of the bookfair and watched the booth when we took breaks.

2019–2020 Kickstarter.com Campaign

On January 24, 2020, we successfully concluded a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com. Many thanks to our kind and generous backers, who enabled us to raise 160% of our goal of $1,000. As modest a sum as this is, it is critical to the publication of our book, and the efforts of many people accounted for the campaign’s success.

2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair

Find us at this year’s bookfair at exhibit booth 6006. We’ll have copies of the first and second editions of Ms. Aligned as well as our call for submissions. Ms. Aligned 2 contributor Lillian Howan will be signing copies of her fabulous novel, The Charm Buyers, on Thursday and Friday from 11:30 to 12:30. A novel of love and magic, The Charm Buyers recounts the intertwined lives of two descendants of Chinese pearl-cultivating families in Tahiti. Ms. Aligned editor Pat Matsueda will be signing copies of her poetry collection Stray and her novella, Bedeviled, on Thursday and Friday at 10 a.m. Bedeviled is about a blue-collar worker in Hawaii who walks the tightrope between a dreary home life and a risky online existence. Howan, Matsueda, and fellow Ms. Aligned contributor Cassandra Lane will also be participating on conference panels.