#awp2018

[chrisjrice]

Blood oranges from California bought and consumed in Florida. A few full days of AWP. Driven there and back by my foster mother. Walking alone through vast hallways. Sitting in meeting rooms. Cruising past publisher’s book and journal displays. Eating free candy. Dodging Blank stares. Gray haired girl invisible. Recipient of Limp handshakes. And Surprise compliments. Heart felt handclasps from people I’d never met in the flesh. Panels which blew through my brain with fierce language and panels of numbing self congratulation. Days of eating alone and PTSD shakes. Bone weary. Of escalators and air conditioning. Now I wait in a lounge chair at my foster mothers house for my long lost brother who is coming to pick me up and take me to lunch. Another exile from a rambling childhood. Another foster child grown up yet not quite over the trauma. As translator Michele Gil-Montero said in her amazing panel on translation : “tragedy is always present, always new, a return to immediacy.” The work of literature to survive that continuing time warp and translate through pain and sorrow and joyous reunion our shared humanity onto the blank page. #fostergirls #daughterofnoone #makeyourownway #awp2018

[kiddeternity]

The reason you didn't see me at #awp2018 (unless you went to my panel, in which case --THANKS!) is simple: I left. AWP hasn't been fun for me since I know how fickle "community" can be, so I decided my time in FL was better spent seeing the friends who I could count on to come see me on a last-minute call. I don't regret anything except the $190 AWP insisted on charging me so I could be on a panel for an hour. #florida #floridawriter #floridabeauty (at Florida)

[radioactive-killjoy]

If you've never been in a room of people reading poetry before, you're missing out on the closest thing I've ever experienced to church. 🙏 I wrote a poem in this workshop today. Here's a sample: "...my spine is nothing but texture under fingerprints I would not recognize, my body is made up of code and I can not read my own mind..." #awp #awp18 #awp2018 #getlit #spokenword (at Hilton Tampa Downtown)

[brooklynartists]

AWP Contributors & Do-Gooders

Here are some writers & readers who helped contribute toiletries for homeless pregnant women & mothers in Tampa.

[smallpressdistribution]

#AWP2018 MADNESS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!!!! But don't forget, you can buy everything at the SPD booth (818) and that's going to be at Whale Prom - online for 30% off all month w/ code TAMPA. Stay home, stay cozy, and enjoy your small press lit anyway.

[thesnhuup]

@GregFowlerCAO: RT @SharonKCalifano: Great panel at #AWP2018, this morning! Privileged to present on our new fully-online #MFA with these talented career writers & mothers from @SNHUmfa! #internationalwomensday2018 @SNHU @SNHUCareer @snhuprez @bedeliamelia @GregFowlerCAO #edleadership #edtech @awpwriter https://t.co/N28mQKbTZz

http://twitter.com/GregFowlerCAO

[kellymcquain]

#AWP2018 Tip: Al’s Bar-B-Que Dear Writer Friends--I'm not going to #AWP2018, but if you are, and if you're going to Ybor City for an event, make sure to walk a couple blocks toward the train tracks and visit Al's Bar-B-Que.

[kthompsonwriter]

Destruction and Creation:

Mind. blown. I will be moderating an AWP panel Destruction and Creation: Addiction, Recovery, and Writing with Melissa Febos, Terese Mailhot, Rob Roberge, and Vanessa Martir Panel description: The addiction story, though centuries old, is a breaking one. Five authors who write from the edges present perspectives and offer their approaches, both practical and emotional, to writing about addiction and recovery and the role addiction plays in their creative lives. The addiction myth operates in profound ways both historically and presently in the lives of writers. How do vocation and addiction intersect? How do we write in and through addiction spaces, images, and narratives? (please don't pinch me) #AWP2018

[haymarketbooks]

#AWP2018! Haymarket Books is for the people. Stop by and see us in booth 1519!

[angelnafis]

Tampa! I'm coming thru and here's where I'll be when I'm not in the sun or seeing a wrinkle in time. 💎💎💎 #awp2018 (at John F. Kennedy International Airport)

[radioactive-killjoy]

It feels like we have been here for days, but this is only day one. As one poet told me, tomorrow people should be hungover and ready to make friends. Joke's on them because I'm ready NOW. We played trivia at the James Joyce Irish Pub. Also an uber driver ran over my foot! #awp #awp18 #awp2018 #ow (at Tampa Convention Center)

[smallpressdistribution]

Not going to #AWP2018? It's cool, lots of us aren't either! We're excited to stay at home and sip hot cocoa instead. It seems much less tiring. all the books we're bringing to AWP, or that are attending Whale Prom are now 30% off w/ code TAMPA

which means you can order a book and have it delivered right to your doorstep just in time for staying in. No more FOMO (fear of missing out) for you. All our love, SPD.

[thesnhuup]

@snhuprez: RT @SharonKCalifano: Lovely venue for our #SNHUMFA panel, this morning, at #AWP2018! Beautiful! Great to connect with writers, educators, and publishers at the #1 creative writing conference in the country! @awpwriter @SNHUmfa #SNHU #amwriting @SNHU @SNHUCareer @GregFowlerCAO @snhuprez @bedeliamelia https://t.co/9wPBachxjN

http://twitter.com/snhuprez

[smallpressdistribution]

New buttons in the mail - which cat are you? See you at AWP! #AWP2018

[smallpressdistribution]

and if you are going to #AWP2018, please don't forget your handy Entropy guide - we can't recommend it highly enough, it's got everything you need.