This would ordinarily be a devastating event in my life, but as it happened, I’d finished an older notebook while I was here and picked up a free new notebook from the NEO MFA program, but the only things I’d managed to scribble in the new notebook were panel notes and a couple of story ideas. The story ideas I remember well enough that I haven’t lost them. The rest . . . well, I’m sad to see those notes gone, but, as Vonnegut would say, so it goes.
Besides, I only attended two panels today, neither of which was terribly impressive.
The rest of the time, I was browsing the bookstore and harassing fellow writers or else attending readings.
So here are some photos from both:
The sunnyoutside press table, including my book (that’s me just above the logo and on the right)Rusty Barnes at the Night Train table (Night Train is back!) and Kevin Sampsell at a big mash-up table that includes Sampsell’s press, Future TenseJill Patterson and a horse at the Iron Horse Literary Review tableKato (!!!) handing out flyers to the Enter the Poet reading last nightThe friendly little reading I was part of last night, in the hotel room of JP Reese and Jen KnoxMeg Tuite reading and being awesome
I write fiction and teach college writing and literature. I'm the author of the story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, the novel Hagridden, and the flash fiction chapbooks Box Cutters and Where There Is Ruin.
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2 thoughts on “AWP Day 3: on readings and roundups”
Did Jennifer roll her eyes about the notebook, ha! Sorry that happened to you. Julie Snoek
Samuel Snoek-Brown 
Did Jennifer roll her eyes about the notebook, ha! Sorry that happened to you. Julie Snoek
She did indeed.
Seriously.