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No time yet to summarise yesterday's events, but I just want to follow up on my last post. This morning in the pool I met Halley Suitt who writes a blog called Halley's Comet and is doing some very interesting work . We had an intriguing conversation about the gulf between bloggers, who are writers often coming from non-literary backgrounds and with no involvement with the publishing world, and writers who may wish to become bloggers but may be weighed down by the very literary background which in the past has supported them. (well, we didn't actually say that, but that's how I am interpreting it.)
We were then joined by yet another escapee from the AWP conference, someone who has been attending it for years but finds it bogged down in ego and tradition, and who also wished she had gone to SXSW instead. My first thought was that maybe we should take the news to next year's AWP and give it another whirl, but actually I think I'd rather organise something myself and bring everyone together. Spring 2007 seems a good slot to aim for. Watch this space for 'when two worlds collide'!
You're in very interesting company in Austin:
http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm
>:r
Posted by: runran | March 13, 2006 at 20:17
Yes he's there. But so are a group of very vociferous women who consider him a joke. Don't believe all you read on the web :)
Posted by: Sue Thomas | March 14, 2006 at 00:44