Consider this blog a hub of observant voices, gathered to report the details, both official and, shall I say, “off-site” (re: the drinks and dirty jokes side) events during the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver, Colorado.  I understand that the conference is many months pending. I understand that planning this far ahead is a symptom some psychologists would associate with a Hyper-Systemizing disorder. But I understand better than both of those concepts (or at the least the first) that the AWP Conference can be a hectic monstrosity. So having an additional group of eyes and ears to absorb the lights and sounds could be the only way to feel you have truly learned something while maintaining the secret of your crippling scriptophobia (I had to look it up, too).

We will be using Twitter to report real-time intimacies, posting thoughts and pics as opportunities arise (see the sidebar to the left). For the more detailed analysis, we will be posting legit blog entries. Essentially, when we experience something, we want to give you the vicarious sense of having been there.

But who are we? We are a collection of writers, some with a sordid AWP history, some conference virgins, all determined to press from the 2010 AWP Conference a delicious literary extract to be used or abused by any and all. If you would like to join in our coverage, send me an email with your name, a link to your website (if you have one; I’ll be looking mainly for evidence of competency – but don’t worry, we have brain damaged monkeys posting too, so you’ll almost certainly look great by comparison), and just a few short biographical lines. We can’t pay you. But maybe we can meet for an aforementioned “off-site” event.