You don’t have to do everything: Thursday afternoon at AWP

Here are a few links and takeaways from the two sessions I attended Thursday afternoon at the AWP Conference and Book Fair. A Reading from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Instructors The readers’ websites and information: David Baker Nancy Zafris Rebecca McClanahan Carl Phillips Listen to “Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected,” by Rebecca McClanahan The …

Read more

Platforms before writing?

Author Laura Munson wrote a very interesting blog post recently about platforms: All-too-quickly the honeymoon is over. Because I learn that there is no Platform band wagon. You have to build it brick by brick and it takes time. Lots of time. A lot like writing a novel. But there isn’t really time to write …

Read more