Tayari's Blog: Live From Austin!

Posted by TayariJones on March 8, 2006 09:44 PM
Filed under The Writing Life

Hi there, everyone. I am blogging from the annual conference of the Associated Writing Programs, AWP for short. It's a meeting of all the writers who work in academia. You wouldn't believe how many of us there are.

The thing to know about many writers is that we can't afford to take a real vacation, so we just come to the AWP conference for a little meet-and-greet. It's not the same as going on a spa retreat to Maui, but it basically hits the spot.

Who have I seen? Ran into Walter Mosley in the lobby and he graciously pretended to remember meeting me at the National Black Book Club Conference. The lovely Monique Truong is my cell mate. She and I are both novelists, but AWP is really a poet's ball.

If you are in Austin, try and check out some of the events. It's suppossed to be a registration only type of situation, but since everyone is too cool to wear a name tag, it just gets too complicated to check.

Monique and I are reading tomorrow at UT. More details to come.

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