Fellow writers! By any chance will you be at the AWP conference in Seattle later this week? If so, here is where you can find me (if, in fact, you’d like to find me): I fly in to Seattle Wednesday night and will likely be starving after the long flight, hoping against hope that I … Continue reading
To anyone who hasn’t attended this conference before: if you decide to stop reading now so I don’t exhaust you with the summary of my last day—I’m exhausted enough, no use passing it on to anybody else—just know this conference is most definitely worth it. Not only am I glad I went, I would do … Continue reading
I am too worn out to come up with a better title for this post, that’s how much happened today. The AWP conference this morning started early, too early for many, I imagine, seeing as how my first panel was sparsely attended for such a huge room. This was “On Adapting and Being Adapted”—about novels … Continue reading
I’ve been at the AWP conference all day. So many writers. So many choices. Such narrow escalators. Book-fair tables for miles. Only three stalls in each women’s bathroom, talk about lines! Let’s just say it’s been a jam-packed day. The first panel I attended was “Shaping a Short Story Collection”—first thing in the morning, in … Continue reading
Tomorrow morning I will be getting up early, as usual, taking the F train uptown, as usual, sneak-reading some pages of my book while hanging one-handed on a pole, as usual, getting out at my usual stop, just a few blocks away from the office and… Not going to the office. Instead I’m going to … Continue reading
Wow. The annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference is in New York this year! And I was just out at lunch talking about how we can’t afford NYC anymore and maybe it’s time to leave. Anyone ever been to this conference? I want to go—but of course I have to request … Continue reading
