Photos and ephemera: AWP 23

I have so many memories from AWP that I decided it was probably best to just collage them here. Check it out!

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Suzanne Edison reading at The BeerHall Bookfair
The Headmistress Press/MoonPath Press booth, with Julene Weaver (L), Risa Denenberg (C), and Molly Tenenbaum (R)
Molly Tenenbaum reading at The BeerHall Bookfair
Priscilla Long (L) and Sati Mookherjee (R) at the AWP Bookfair
Ronda Piszk Broatch reading at The BeerHall Bookfair

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My slapdash poem for Poets for Science
Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University, home of the Poets for Science project (2023: “Traveling Stanzas”)
Cami Ostman (L) for Wayfaring Writers
A wonderful score! Sonya Huber’s book
The dashing and talented Michael Schmeltzer for Floating Bridge Press

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Just a portion of my haul from the AWP Bookfair, including fiction, poetry, memoir, postcards, stickers, journals, and posters
The day after: Too tired to make my own coffee at home but the need for recovery caffeine is R-E-A-L!
Look what I found hanging in my Greenlake AirBnB, but a painting that reminds me so much of Field’s End (the Bainbridge Island literary community whose conference I used to organize)… no, it’s not the same logo, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same artist!
A detail from The Lab at Ada’s Books, where my second reading took place (thanks, Ada’s!)
Lots of cool stickers including this one which reminds me of the popping up, this year, of speculative fiction presses all around the AWP Bookfair

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Gary Copeland Lilly reading at the BeerHall Bookfair
Myself and Beth Thorpe at The RabbitBox for Attack of the Book People
The Beyond the Veil Press readers at the BeerHall Bookfair
A premiere gathering of panelists to discuss the implications of writing feminist identity in a post-Roe world
Perhaps the most entertaining panel I sat on, with LA writers discussing how they write the new American West
Myself donning the perfect mask to wear to the feminist panel cited above (completely coincidental!)
I had me a Sarah Taylor Experience at The RabbitBox (hey, if you know, you know…) and that there is Coco
Dude holding up at sign that reads “Need Agent” (publicity stunt?)
The inimitable Maya Jewell Zeller reading at Arundel Books for Another Chicago Magazine

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Interior of Optimism Brewing right before the BeerHall Bookfair
Exterior of Optimism Brewing on the night of the BeerHall Bookfair
My least favorite part of AWP: all the paper products strewn about every open surface. Stahhhhhhp!
My fancy new gift mug from my publisher Pioneertown (thanks, Brenna!)
Unabomberish look for the last day of AWP: it was rainy and I was tired
Opening day at the brand-spankin’-new Seattle Convention Center