&NOW Festival
traveling biennial literary festival publishing organization focused innovative literature festival main emphasis work blend cross genre includes wide variety work multimedia project performance piece critifictional presentation otherwise festival seek literary art practiced today author consciously treat work process aware literary extraliterary history much form material language community practice subject matter work presented author considered experimental literature presentation reading panel focused literature main population attendance made writer performer intermedia artist alongside undergraduate graduate student writer scholar research contemporary literature participant visit u mexico northern europe member executive board currently dimitri anastasopoulos sylvie bauer amina cain antoine cazé jeffrey deshell rebecca goodman christina milletti martin nakell davis schneiderman codirector book elisabeth sheffield anna joy springer annelaure tissut steve tomasula conference founder conference innovative writing literary art founded university notre dame steve tomasula featured keynote speaker stephanie strickland lydia davis stacey levine joe amato poet debra di blasi april lake forest college hosted festival leading keynote speaker william h gas april festival held chapman university featured speaker festival included steve katz stacey levine wendy walker tom lafarge ishmael reed fc flash reading steve tomasula david antin festival hosted university buffalo october first festival hosted annually notable contributor included rikki ducornet percival everett nathaniel mackey jorge volpi university california san diego hosted fifth festival october featured speaker included rae armantrout ricardo domínguez cathy gere bhanu kapil carole maso miranda mellis vanessa place v ramachandran connie samara davis schneiderman roberto tejada steve tomasula sixth festival took place university parissorbonne paris diderot university june featured guest speaker ben marcus robert coover seventh took place university colorado boulder keynote speaker lynne tillman percival everett eighth festival held california institute art march keynote speaker nourbese philip organizing committee tisa bryant douglas kearney maggie nelson janet sarbanes mady schutzman matias viegener christine wertheim book imprint lake forest college founded davis schneiderman steve tomasula serf publishing arm festival book released first anthology award best innovative writing volume ii award set released october book also publishes first book winner madeleine p plonsker emerging writer residency prize edited joshua corey festival homepage