AWP Conference | AWP Conference
Mar.05.2013
AWP, Vancouver, 2005. I’m standing at the Elixir Press table chatting during a book-signing when my editor, Dana Curtis, chimes in.
“Jake Adam York wants to meet you.” His first book, Murder Ballads, is my pick for Elixir Press’ Fifth Annual Poetry Award.
Cell phone connections are erratic in...
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Mar.04.2013
Looking forward to the event! report back to follow...AWP Conference
Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different city to celebrate the authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and independent publishers of that region. The conference typically features 550...
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Mar.12.2012
I recently attended the AWP Conference in Chicago where 10,000 writers, educators, and graduate and undergraduate creative writing students met. With all the panels, the chance meetings in the hallways and lobby bars, the massive Bookfair, the readings, the awards, and the parties, the air crackled...
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Mar.11.2012
Last week in Chicago, I attended the AWP Conference, which is a gathering of writers, creative writing professors, and students. While the event included some great speakers and readers such as Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and Darin Strauss, I also found a number of panels involving.
In fact on...
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Feb.16.2011
A writer must write, must harness words and ideas and string them together (an isolated venture) in order to be productive, but a writer must also participate in the life that is being lived (a public undertaking) around her, must often go to it, be in its middle and become a recorder, a witness...
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Feb.18.2010
I read somewhere (or maybe I didn’t; reading is for suckers) that the author/promoter divide is a 70/30 ratio. I’d go further, and flip those numbers, giving the promoter hat a 70% weight. If I’ve learned anything with pushing Charactered Pieces these last few months it’s this: writing is a dirty...
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