About

The annual AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Projects) conference can be extremely tiring. Between the early morning panels and quick coffee with fellow attendees, between navigating the labyrinthine Book Fair and waiting in line to for a few seconds for face-time with a favorite author, between evening drinks and morning drinks, there is little time to absorb the wealth of information.

That is where we hope to help. I’ve (this is Caleb typing) been to four previous AWP Conferences, and while I’ve gained much, I always leave with a sense of guilt, as though I had spent too much time napping, and not enough time note-taking.

This year, 2010 in Denver, I want to dedicate my trip to ensuring other writers don’t suffer that same weight. The contributors to this here blog thing will be your extra eyes, ears, and fingers to document as much of the conference as we can. From the off-site evenings, to the vagabond readings, and even some of the panels themselves, we’ll be there to (probably) not entirely subjectively archive the events.

We have a Twitter stream (see the left sidebar, or go here), a YouTube channel (left sidebar, or here), and TwitPic stream (right side…gotcha. Left sidebar, or here), and of course this blog.

Read about the contributors, here. If you’d like to be a part our documentary crew, go here. If you’d like to buy me a drink, email me here.