As some of you know, we are lucky to have the national conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs being held in Atlanta in Feb. 28- March 3, 2007. If you have not been, this is a wonderful opportunity to catch readings and workshops, talk with writers of all levels and wander through a great book fair. This is the biggest annual national event of creative writing, and they're expecting about 5,000 people. You should be one of them!
Planned events include a poetry extravaganza (not sure exactly what that is!) and featured readings by John Barth, Anne Beattie, C.D. Wright, Charles Wright, Tayari Jones, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Martone, and many others. The Georgia Review's 60th anniversary poetry reading features readings by Albert Goldbarth, Rita Dove, Paul Zimmer and Kevin Young.
The important stuff: a very reasonable registration rate for the whole conference is $35, but to get this rate you have to register before Nov. 15. After that it's $40, and $45 on-site registration. This doesn't include lodging, so you might want to start checking around for people to crash with. Or maybe the creative writing club will help organize?
For more information and registration, check out www.awpwriter.org.
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