Picture of me in front of Poe's Grave in Baltimore
If you missed #awp26 but still want the info, here's the 3rd installment of my take-aways & hot tips. hayleyshucker.substack.com/p/awp-day-3
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Sometimes an essay or story idea is like an egg. Unopened, it could be anything. But what? How a little book about a little thing helped @andreafirth.bsky.social with her essay's vision @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/a... #writingcommunity #creativewriting #awp
Though I couldn’t be at AWP in person this year, I still got some value out of the AWP virtual experience — particularly the panels with agents. #AWP #literaryagents rachelkolman.substack.com/p/i-attended...
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Member Bookshelf. Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor A Memoir By Rachel Bennett Steury Foreword By NKDO Founder Ned Brooks Afterword By Author J. Randy Johnson. Memoir explores the author’s experiences before and after giving away an organ to a stranger through a kidney chain, an innovative form of altruism spearheaded by the National Kidney Registry. Author(s) Rachel Bennett Steury Publisher BC Books. Available for purchase now wherever books are sold.
Thank you to @awpwriter.org for featuring my memoir on the Member Bookshelf! My experiences becoming a living kidney donor, explained. Available now! #Memoir #DonateLife #AWPWriter #AWP #NationalKidneyMonth
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How does your medium change the meaning of your words?
We learned so much at AWP's "Material Encounters: On Teaching the Multimodal." This Friday, we're looking forward to exploring visual essays in a special interview with Sarah Minor. Stay tuned!
#truemag #literarymagazine #awp #writing
This unique #book sprang from a panel at the North American Review Bicentennial Conference in 2015 and it continues to attract readers' attention, including at the recent #AWP Conference and Bookfair in #Baltimore
My sequel to #Frankenstein - Mrs Saville - also proved popular in #Baltimore at #AWP - #maryshelley #gothic #literature youtube.com/shorts/ewfKx...
Learn to write about technology. Learn how to run a lit mag. Do the same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world. hayleyshucker.substack.com/p/awp-day-2
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I'm back from Baltimore; I was at #AWP to speak on Sifting through #BookPromtion strategies that actually work. I've asked moderator @cristinadeptula.bsky.social to share the panel questions so I can do a deep dive on each one. Want in?
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For those at #AWP who told me they wanted to read Animal Husbandry but are #audiobook folks, there is an audio version available on Audible. Here's where to find it. #shortstories #fiction www.amazon.com/Animal-Husba...
I've been commenting on the headway of my most recent book, the Mary Shelley biography, but The Strophes of Job had a nice time in #Baltimore too, selling out at its #book signing as well. #AWP
I was pleasantly surprised by the small feeding frenzy at last week's #book signing in #Baltimore - a lot of Mary Shelley enthusiasts at #AWP
Ok it's been a bit...what did I miss at #awp?
Thou shalt not have #awp26 #fomo
Lots of #writingtips and #literarymagzine information for y'all in today's post.
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@brigittewinter.bsky.social + #AWP brought to my attention this wild movie which, while not exactly the direction I took with my story, "Bootcut" @havenspec.bsky.social, is, er, cut from the same cloth. 👖🔪
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Read my murder jeans take here: havenspec.com/fiction/boot...
While at #AWP in #Baltimore, I conducted brief interviews with a handful of the some 13,000 writerly types who attended the conference and bookfair. Really passionate, fascinating people doing really important work.
Back from AWP & still feeling grateful to have seen all you wonderful literary folk.
Here are some highlight photos from our Wednesday reading at the amazing "Poe's Magic Theater."
#awp #brucebond #valerieperreault #kiannagreene #ashlandpoetrypress #poetryreading #chuckcarlise #offsitereading
A poem from Outskirts, a literary magazine
Reading through the Outskirts zine I picked up at #AWP, and it's just bangers.
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There I was, reading at @greedyreads.bsky.social bookstore in Baltimore on Thursday 5 March during the @tupelopress.bsky.social #AWP off-site 30/30 alumni reading.
So many thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for the photos (and video, coming soon to my YouTube channel).
photo of various items collected from AWP conference in Baltimore last week—books, pins, pens, stickers, book markers, bag & nametag
swag brag from #AWP confab 😜
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This photo is from the first day of my #CCCC and #AWP conference odyssey, but I’ll post it as its closing image because it captures the feelings, friendships, and literal lights of the events!
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Best way to close AWP was with a quick visit and chat with @janefriedman.com! As always, her advice was generous and spot on! #awp #awp26 #writer
Wonderful to see Pitt undergraduate women writers at AWP. If you start this early, the sky’s the limit! #awp #awp26 #writer
Bravo, Lana, for making something magical out of your first conference! #AWP sure can be daunting, but you sailed right through it!
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“Put the manuscript down. Have a drink and go paint something after thinking about your book, what gets on the canvas? What music were you listening to while you were writing? What does your book connect with? You worked so hard on this book. Have fun.” — Katya Buresh Wiegmann
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“As much as you can, think of comps as something you get to do to better communicate what the heart of your book is. Not as something you have to do. You use comps every day for your own tastes. The comps play a small role on whether you go purchase a book.” @manadurphy.bsky.social
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“When we look at comps in a query, we ask ourselves: Does the author know who their ideal audience is? Do they know who their future peers might be? Do you know their own work? Can they talk about it?” — Amy Bishop-Wycisk
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“If I could give one piece of advice, try to get it right but don’t stall for two years saying you can’t query because the comps aren’t perfect.” — Elizabeth DeMeo
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