AWP conference

Next March, I'll be headed to Chicago for a writers' conference. This will be the 2004 AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Annual Conference. The University of Michigan is one of the sponsers this time, and since it's close by Ann Arbor, many of the MFA students are headed to the conference.

The last conference I attended was in an ELT one in Bangkok, where I broke the news to Barney and Andrew that I was planning to leave the Press. At that conference, I bought a book of Thai short fiction, observed people, had dinner at the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant, and felt sleepy most of the time.

I'm expecting the AWP Conference to be a great place to meet other hopeful writers and professional (famous) writers. My thesis reader from my undergrad days, Bich Nguyen, will be presenting, as will be my mentor, Eileen Pollack, who, as I was about to leave Ann Arbor in 2000, persuaded me to return to Michigan.

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Posted by Monoceros at October 29, 2003 10:09 PM