For this year's #NaPoWriMo, I'll be writing an after poem each day based on a poem by one of the 30 panelists I saw at #AWP26 earlier this month. Full details on the other site, but I'll be sharing excerpts of the WIPs here too: x.com/carriganak/s...
The Bettys in Baltimore! AWP was exciting and productive, but to me these off-site encounters were the truest moments of being in community with fellow writers.
#wtawpress #bettybooks #AWP26 #writingcommunity
AWP members can check out Writer’s TV, where they can choose from AWP on YouTube, members-only videos, and (for registered #AWP26 attendees) #AWP26 Anywhere content to find something interesting to watch. Let the channel surfing begin!
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
#awp #writingtips #writingcommunity #fiction #literature #flashfiction #writinggoals
#AWP26 fellows rocked the second year of the TCU Fellowship Program—now it’s your turn! Faculty and student applications open on April 1, so spread the word or get ready to apply.
📝 i wrote about my panel experience at #AWP26, where i talked about sharing digital poetry works
plus, a little interactive experiment in seeing the process of editing on top of a script!
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Great talk with @margarethutton.bsky.social and Deborah Brown English at #AWP26 in Baltimore. Head to Bloom's new home on Substack to check out our conversation: bloomliterary.substack.com/p/special-re...
@laurencerand.com @bettybooks.bsky.social
Publishing update! My manuscript has found a wonderful home!! Apprentice House Press has selected my book for publication in 2027. From #AWP26, the Apprentice House Press sales table, and me with Aminah Murray, Acquisitions Editor/ Managing Editor.
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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Discussing briefly the enthusiasm people demonstrated for Twelve Winters Press's #books at #AWP26 - including my #biography of Mary W. Shelley, Aspiring Child - very heartwarming youtube.com/shorts/Wvqww...
#AWP26 was fab! Cannot wait til next year in Chicago!
John Waters with his exquisite moustache sits behind a plexiglass shield so he won't get conference cooties. I'm wearing a hot pink cardigan over a blue button up shirt with pink flamingos on it. The Silver Issue of Fairy Tale Review sits between us because I asked him to sign it, along with his book SHOCK VALUE.
Adding to the avalanche of #awp26 recaps with my own. Behold: me and John Waters! www.ancawrites.com/blog/notes-f...
#booksky #writingcommunity
Still feeling energized from #AWP26 and ready to buy more books? Check our our Bookshop.org affiliate page, where we’ve curated lists like staff reads, AWP Award Series Winners, #AWP26 Featured Presenters, and more!
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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A quick #video about some of the great #literary journals I picked up in #Baltimore at #AWP26 - they'll be used for featured short stories in our #podcast A Lesson before #Writing @swampapereview.bsky.social youtu.be/3s7n-QZgW20
And before you watch our full Nevermore recording (haunted #AWP26 event) here’s a short peak thanks to @cieramcelroy.bsky.social! Reading features Carmen Maria Machado, @sequoian.bsky.social, GennaRose Nethercott, me, Jen Pullen, & Matthew Lansburgh! Full recording here: tinyurl.com/yc73pt7n
More Nevermore photos, the haunted off-site event Jen Pullen and I hosted (through @pvww.bsky.social). Here: the haunted Lord Baltimore hotel theater, the hundreds of people lined up to get in, & some of the authors hanging out post-reading! (Before we sleuthed ghosts on the 19th floor!) #AWP26
Loved moderating our Speculating the Machine panel at #AWP26 (on writing about AI, in fiction) with these visionary science fiction writers & genre-benders. Amazing discussion. We also did a pre-AWP reading of our own fiction about AI, for those curious - watch here: tinyurl.com/bdd9r2zk
Belated #AWP26 highlights from Baltimore! Meeting my brilliant One Story editor Karen Friedman in person - and hanging out with the whole awesome One Story team! Also got to see friend and Ghost Parachute editor Brett Pribble & Yaddo friends Anne & Vu from a very special residency!
Tonight! If you're at #AWP26 we hope to see you at our offsite reading event! 5:30 to 8:30 at Le Mondo, 406 North Howard Street, Baltimore. Don't miss it!
New Substack post live today, and it's about being a drag clown, attending #AWP26 and the #ttrpg design classes I'm teaching this month ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/natmesna...
Now that we're finally recovered from #AWP26, here are some of the pictures that we were able to snag during the festivities!
And a massive thank you to everyone who came to help out at the booth!
My favorite part of AWP? Seeing the C-dale MFA crew from back in the day. That's Indiana poet laureate Curtis Crisler, who is just as sweet as he was in grad school.
#AWP26 #SIUC #WritingCommunity
Shout-out pt 3 @awpwriter.org #AWP26 Baltimore #writing conference
@peabody.bsky.social
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@shanayoungdahl.bsky.social
@timwendel.bsky.social
@wirobooks.bsky.social
@zachpowers.bsky.social
Shout-out pt 2 @awpwriter.org #AWP26 Baltimore #writing conference
@kateschapira.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social
@kathmschmidt.bsky.social @katjolewis.bsky.social
@ladiwoods.bsky.social @narrativemedicine.bsky.social
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Shout-out pt 1 @awpwriter.org #AWP26 Baltimore #writing conference
@abwycisk.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@barrelhouse.bsky.social @caroledgarian.bsky.social
@chillsubs.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @janefriedman.com @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
Thou shalt not have #awp26 #fomo
Lots of #writingtips and #literarymagzine information for y'all in today's post.
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#writingcommunity #iamwriting #awp #fiction #literature
#awp26 debrief part one coming tomorrow morning. hayleyshucker.substack.com/about Subscribe so it will go to you automatically.
We're so proud of our alumni who presented at #AWP26
Beth Kander-Dauphin, Sea Creatures, Space & Words
Karol Lagodzki, Writing Beyond the Mother Tongue
C. T. Salazar, More than the Sum of Its Parts
Celeste Schueler, Divergent Writers
Stoked to see this recap of my #AWP26 panel from @amandatien.bsky.social. The vibes were SO brilliant and having them recapped in this delightful piece is a gift.
