AWP 2013 recap
Journals from the Wordnik table
AWP highlights, in the order in which I remember them:
Hosting Literary Firsts. I love it every time, but this was such a memorable event. All the readers were so on. Videos are forthcoming, videos I will watch over and over.
Hearing Emily Mitchell read from The Last Summer of the World
Hearing Vanessa Veselka read from her novel-in-progress. !!! (I will stop at three exclamation points for the sake of propriety, but know that this deserves so many more.)
Hearing Josh Weil read “I Want You to Know That I Know That He Loved You” at the AGNI party
Hearing Heidi Julavitz read from The Vanishers
Heidi Julavitz telling me I was her wingman during her reading–call and response, me calling, her responding: YOU’RE AWESOME! … YOU’RE PSYCHIC!
Meeting so many people I only knew online–Melissa Febos, Vanessa Veselka, Gregory Crosby (who blurbed Underlife and Portico!), Troy Palmer, Alban Fischer, Lam Pham, Alexis Pope, Justin Daugherty, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Jordan Scott, and Susan McCarty’s fiance, who specifically stopped by the table to give me her regards (how sweet!)
Seeing people I don’t see nearly enough, including Dolan Morgan, Tom Oristaglio, Steven LaFond, Elisa Gabbert, John Cotter, Denise Warren, Bill Pierce, Karyn Polewaczyk, Andra Hibbert, Karissa Kloss, Robert Kloss, James Tadd Adcox, Cat Parnell, Askold Melnyczuk, and our dear AP authors: Gillian Devereux and Michael Lynch
Karissa Kloss’s greeting to me at Literary Firsts: “Hello, trouble.”
Hearing the phrase, “I’m a lexicographer,” and turning around to see Emily Brewster
Drive-by hugs from Lori Hettler, John Reed, Ethan Gilsdorf, Siena Oristaglio, Daniel Nester, Danielle Jones-Pruett, Evan Perriello, and Matt Salesses
Seeing people at multiple events! Krysten Hill, Kurt Klopmeier, and Colin O’Day
Seeing editors who are now friends: Michael Thurston and Jim Hicks
Meeting the Fourteen Hills crew, all of whom were so incredibly nice: Ari Moskowitz, Kelly McNerney, and Miah Jeffra
The apt release party, wherein I laughed and sighed and gasped and loved every reader so, so much.
Special thanks to everyone who stopped to see us at table M4
Extra special thanks to our tablemates from Anomalous Press, especially Erica Mena-Landry and Shannon Walsh
And, of course, thanks (always) to Randolph Pfaff
