FUSE Conference 2025: What’s Current?
A current is a flow of electrical charge, typically through a conductor. However, current also means here and now. The here and now is something that’s all too prevalent in the publishing industry, a landscape that shifts and evolves each day.
FUSE exists to rewire the way undergraduate editors connect in a field that never stays still. As such, the 2025 FUSE Conference is all about defining what current means to you: as a publisher, an editor, a creative writer.
What publishing and editing experiences have led you to where you are today? What literary conversations are you having? Let this conference serve as the conductor of your editorial current. Link up with fellow undergraduates, programs, and educators to exchange your own circuit of publishing knowledge.
This year’s FUSE Conference will be hosted at Susquehanna University, located in Selinsgrove, PA, from Thursday, February 6th to Sunday, February 9th. The conference will offer networking opportunities, hands-on activities such as paper-making and bookbinding, and space for students and faculty to spark discourse about the current and future field of publishing.
Carmen Giménez, Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press, will be featured as our keynote speaker.
Registration is $30 per person. If you can’t attend the FUSE conference in person, you can purchase a Zoom registration for $15, which includes livestreams of select events, such as our panels, roundtable, and keynote talk.
All students and faculty who register are invited to speak on one of our conference panels or roundtables. Please see our list of topics in the tentative schedule below. More information will be sent upon registration.
carmen Giménez
Carmen Giménez is Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press. She is the author of numerous poetry collections including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry, and Be Recorder, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 2020. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, she served as Publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years.
Tentative Schedule
Thursday, February 6
5:00pm : Welcome Reception
Friday, February 7
10:00am : Student Panel—Building a Legacy: How to Create and Maintain a Magazine Archive
11:15am : Student Panel—Got Submissions?: How to Increase and Maintain Student Engagement
1:45pm : Faculty Advisor Panel—Topic TBD
3:00pm : Student Panel—Lit Mags Are for Everyone: How to Make Your Publication More Accessible
4:15pm : Q & A with Carmen Giménez, Editor and Publisher at Graywolf Press
7:00pm : Carmen Giménez Publishing and Editing Lecture
8:00pm : Open Mic with SU Slam Poetry Club
saturday, february 8
10:00am : Student Editor Roundtable
11:15am : FUSE Alumni Q & A with Jess Ram
2:00pm : Magazine Showcase Set-Up
3:00pm : Book Arts Workshop & Magazine Showcase
7:30pm : Silly Powerpoint Night
sunday, february 9
10:00am : Goodbye Breakfast
Annual FUSE Conference
Each year, FUSE National holds an undergraduate conference that offers students the chance to network with like-minded peers, engage in writing and editing discourse, and exchange publications from their respective programs.
FUSe Conference 2o23
The 2023 FUSE Conference was held in November at SUNY Geneseo in upstate New York. Themed “Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”, the conference featured undergraduate panels and round-table discussions on topics such as sustaining literary communities on small campuses, writing political poetry and prose, and representing diverse identities through student-run publications. Additionally, professional panelists presented talks such as “A Librarian, A Publisher, and An Editor Walk into a Conference: Publishing and Preserving.”
Flower City Arts, based in Rochester, NY, offered a bookmaking and letter press workshop, where students bound and printed their own mini books. There was also an undergraduate showcase in which students were invited to display and distribute literary magazines from their respective programs.
The conference closed off with a FUSE National business meeting, where conference attendees provided feedback on the organization’s new branding.