McSweeneys: Rejected AWP Panels

How to Explain to Your Parents That Your Novel is Not Based On Them

Random Conference Hookups: How to Deal With the Awkward Morning After

Fedoras, Beards and Skinny Jeans: How to Look Like a Writer

I Love Your Use of Narrative Exposition: Dating Writers 101

So You’re the Person Who Rejected My Story: Proper Editor Etiquette

Drinking (and Puking) Like a Writer

In lieu of some kind of weird AWP wrap-up, I will just add to this list the following:

  • How Not To Self-Promote: Offering Editors a “Website” In Exchange For $1000 And The “Chance” to Get Their Stories/Poems In “Front” Of Barack Obama
  • Downtown Chicago Restaurants That Don’t Close Before 9:30 pm (Hint: None Of Them)
  • The Narrative Arc of a Poetry Reading: From Cheeky Pop Culture References to Poems About The Author’s Penis to The Long Poem No One Wanted To Hear 
  • No Love For Nonfiction Writers
  • Lots Of Love For People You Can Still Stand To Be Around After Three Days of This Shit

(but really, I had fun.)

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      That Narrative Arc sounds so similar to the last shitty reading I gave that I’m literally gripped by fear and trembling.
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