AWP Report - Part 3

The last day of the AWP conference was another busy one. I started with a 9AM panel: "Telling Other People's Stories: Narrative Nonfiction, its Pleasures and Perils." Five non-fiction writers talked about their projects and the challenges of finding the right subject and then getting close enough, or too close, to investigate.

Next I went to "Private Practice: Managing the Novel from Symptoms Through Recovery" moderated by my friend Elizabeth Brundage and featuring novelists Jennifer Haigh, M...