Update: I’m bumping this to the top because I don’t want to lose the good suggestions in the comments. Add your own suggestions down there.
Thing 1: Come find The Rumpus table at the Book Fair.
We’ll have all sorts of swag, from calendars to Write Like a MotherFucker coffee mugs and tee-shirts to just about everything in the Rumpus Shop. I’ll be there personally as well, selling and signing copies of my new book, A Witness in Exile.
The Cave Canem Fellows reading, Wednesday February 2 from 7:00-10:00 at the Charles Sumner School. The event is to raise money for Cave Canem, and there’s a suggested $10 donation at the door. 20 Cave Canem fellows are scheduled to read. More information here.
Other things to do: The 3-Dollar Bill Reading Thursday, February 3, from 7:30-10:30 pm at the Human Rights Campaign Equality Forum (1640 Rhode Island Avenue NW, in Washington, DC). “3 Dollar Bill” is sponsored by Arktoi Books, BLOOM Literary Journal, Human Rights Campaign, Knockout Literary Magazine, The Lambda Literary Foundation, A Midsummer Night’s Press, The Publishing Triangle, Sibling Rivalry Press/Assarcus Journal, Sinister Wisdom Literary Journal, White Crane Institute, and The Writer’s Center.
VIDA is throwing a party on Thursday February 3 as well, from 9:00-midnight, featuring male writers reading work by women writers they admire. Readers include our very own Stephen Elliott and Seth Fischer. $10 donation at the door to help support VIDA’s work.
Literature Party to benefit 826DC on Friday February 4 at 9:30 p.m. also at the Black Cat. Ticket information is available at the link.
Graywolf Press authors Kim Kupperman and Nick Lantz will be reading at Teaism on Friday February 4 at 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by Chapters Literary Arts Center.
Our own Andrew Altschul will be reading at The Counterpoint Showcase, Saturday February 5, 1:30pm in the Virginia B room at the Marriott Wardman Park.
So what else is happening? Leave your events or suggestions in the comments section.
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I’ll be at the VIDA event for sure and The Rumpus table. And I’ll be signing books (My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas) at the Nebraska Press booth on Friday, Feb 4, 3-3:30. Look for the red balloons.
Bunch of us from The Velvet (http://www.welcometothevelvet.com), The Cult (http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net) and my press Otherworld Publications (http://www.otherworldpublications.com) will be reading at The Velvet Lounge (915 U Street NW) on Thursday night from 7-9. Stop by if you don’t have plans. Here’s the Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=151554561562851 so much great stuff going on at AWP. Just have fun.
Thanks,
Richard
sorry, screwed up that FB Event link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151554561562851
Thanks for the shout-out!
Just FYI, the 3 Dollar Bill reading will feature 30 of the most talented writers from the LGBT community, including Eileen Myles, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Paul Lisicky, Eloise Klein Healy, and many others. It’s also FREE and open to the public. To see the full lineup, check out the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=170152696349960
Friday, Fed 4th at 7:30 – party/reading for ModCloth’s The Written Wardrobe. Come celebrate the release of our first online literary journal with us!
Facebook invite – http://on.fb.me/h4I6Qh
Our site – http://www.modcloth.com
Thanks!
Friday, Feb 4th at 6:00pm–
Join us as over twenty poets lend their energy and language to a group reading in response to Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and in resistance to the atmosphere of national xenophobia under which the bill (and its emerging counterparts) were created.
Confirmed readers include: Francisco X. Alarcon, Tara Betts, Sarah Browning, Regie Cabico, Carmen Calatayud, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, MartÃn Espada, Odilia Galvan Rodriguez, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Aracelis Girmay, Randall Horton, Juan Felipe Herrera, Dorianne Laux, Marilyn Nelson, Mark Nowak, Barbara Jane Reyes, Abel Salas, Sonia Sanchez, Craig Santos Perez, Hedy Trevino, Pam Uschuk, Dan Vera, Rich Villar, and Andre Yang. Hosted by Oscar Bermeo.
Details: http://www.oscarbermeo.com/2011/01/floricanto-in-dc-a-multicultural-reading-in-response-to-sb-1070-2/
Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146685065380826
oh, i now have an article up about what i would do if i was going this year, since i had to bail at the last minute (booooooooo):
http://www.calebjross.com/awpblog/2011/01/27/2011awp_panels_rt/
Going to LITERARY DEATH MATCH, off campus Wednesday night. New to; high expectations. (Fingers crossed.)
http://www.LiteraryDeathMatch.com
Richard can’t make it, but we’re still going for it. How can we pass up the opportunity to present “Live Nude Words”? We’ll be at the Velvet Lounge on Thursday: http://www.badbadbad.net/Page1.html#livenudewords
Edit: Things we could have done at AWP if we weren’t snowed-in in Iowa City with our flight canceled and the next available flight at midnight Thursday. Sigh…
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