Things are
shutting down here for a few days as I head off to AWP, the annual writer
convention that attracts nearly 13,000 writers (and, apparently, $28 million
for the host city which is Minneapolis…how much of that $$ is spent at bars, I
wonder?).
If you’ll be at
AWP, you can find me:
--trolling the
bookfair
--wandering the
bar/s
--squeezed into
panels
--conversing
wildly in a corridor
--at the end of
a long line, glaring angrily at random people ahead of me
--selfie-ing at
the Mary Tyler Moore statue
--headed to the
secret bathroom no one else knows about on the convention floor that I locate first thing
--peering at
nametags, too vain to wear my glasses
--lugging a
totebag jammed with books and journals and stickers
--targeting the bookfair booths that are serving bourbon
--squirting Purell on my hands two seconds after shaking hands with the coughing poet
--splitting a check 15 ways at lunch
--all in all, having an amazing and amazingly overwhelming time of it!
And, reading at
the following off-site (but not distant!) events:
Friday, April 10
11:30am - 6:00pm
Minneapolis Convention Center: Room M101BC
[below ground level]
The Third Annual HEAT Reading, HEAT: Hotter Than Hell, will take
place at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Room M101BC (1st Floor). It is a
free, fiery offsite event MC-ed by the fantabulous Antonia Crane. Indulge in
our cash bar. Make your $5 contribution to VIDA (if you can). Win gift
certificates to Powell's you can use online.
The Breakdown:
DOORS OPEN AT 11:30AM.
READERS READ FOR 4 MINUTES EACH, FROM THE TOP OF THE HOUR UNTIL
QUARTER OF THE NEXT.
RECESS (15 MINGLE MINUTES)
"LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN" UNTIL 6 PM.
FOUR PM
Leslie Pietrzyk
Anna Leahy
Ben Tanzer
Janée J. Baugher
Robin E. Black
Bonnie West
Jane Neathery Cutler
***
April 10, 2015
6:30 PM ~ 8:00 PM
Sponsored by The
Sun Magazine
Open to the public
Minneapolis Central Library
Pohlad Hall
300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN
[10 mins from the convention center, via free public
transportation]
With:
Sy Safransky
Krista Bremer
Joe Wilkins
Leslie Pietrzyk
