Comments on AWP :: Robert Gray

For anyone who has never attended the AWP conference and would like an overview persepective on it, check out Robert Gray’s post on Fresh Eyes Now. Here’s an excerpt:

“All those headlines declaring the book is dead and readers are an endangered species seemed to have little effect on the 8,000 writers, give or take a few hundred, who inundated the Hilton Chicago last week for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference. . . Was everyone attending the conference carrying a manuscript in their back pocket? Probably. Was the possibility high that few of those books would ever see the light of publication? No doubt. Did it matter? Not so much, at least not last week.”