Mucca Pazza in Chicago, IL 2009

This AWP blog is maintained by author Caleb J. Ross, with content from various amazing contributors.

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 many 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.

Washington DC 2011 continues where Denver, CO 2010 left off: 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 sidebar, or go here), a YouTube channel (sidebar, or here), and TwitPic stream (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.

NOTE: though the powers that run the AWP Conference have not approached me about this blog in any way, I feel it important to state that this blog is not affiliated with AWP. I am simply a multi-attendee who wishes to help other attendees get as much from the conference as possible.