Lit Crawl NYC: Brooklyn
Saturday, May 19th, starting @ 6:00pm
Various locations in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights
(see Calendar for full details)
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FAKE AWP 2011
02/04/11 08:00 PM
FAKE AWP 2011
Brooklyn Hosts the Literary World’s Pre-Eminent Fake Writing Conference
February 4, 2011
Brooklyn, NY--The annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) conference boasts the most influential names in fiction and poetry, along with the leading institutions of the literary-industrial complex.
The first annual Fake AWP conference boasts several writers and poets who are just wonderful people. Except, and he was insistent on this point, Jim Behrle.
To provide a haven for those either too broke, too busy, or too disillusioned (with the fact that really it ought to be AWWP, jeez) to attend the massive four-day conference in Washington, D.C., an assortment of Brooklyn writers and editors are taking over Brooklyn Winery from 8pm to 10pm on Friday, February 4th. Even as AWP tackles some of the most pressing issues facing authors, publishers, and academics, Fake AWP will be addressing brunch, snark, literary crushes, and whatever it is Jim Behrle thinks about all day.
Audience participation will be encouraged, with the potential to earn the title of Fake Dean of American Letters.
The presentation list is as follows:
Jim Behrle (poet, critic, and cartoonist; 20012, Gawker, the Awl, “24/7 Relentless Careerism”; www.americanpoetry.biz), presenting "When I Was Young I Wanted to Be a Department Chair," in the Walt Whitman Lecture Hall.
Tobias Carroll (writer; Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Scowl, the Rumpus; www.thescowl.org) presenting "Punchlines at the End of the World: Joshua Cohen's Witz as Spiritual Descendant of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Novels" in the Seamus Heaney Pavilion.
Jason Diamond (writer and editor; Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Jewcy; vol1brooklyn.com, jewcy.com) presents "Snark Mastery: Post Upper West Side" in the Seabiscuit Proscenium.
C.A.B. Fredericks (editor; Slice magazine; slicemagazine.org) presents "Oligarchs. Oligarchs? Oligarchs!: Towards a Sustainable Model of Literary Publishing" in the Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier Latrine and Conference Room.
Jim Hanas (writer and curator; Why They Cried, Adult Education; jimhanas.com, adult-ed.net) presents "Deeply, Madly, Sillily: A Love Letter to Renata Adler" in the Manute Bol Cocktail Lounge.
Caitlin MacRae (writer and baker; Nerve, Slice; slicemagazine.org/blog) presents a cautionary lecture on the dangers of brunch in the Jim Behrle Memorial Theater.
Further talks are expected from Bomb's Luke Degnan, as well as a very famous and fabulous fake Brooklyn literary figure.
Please address any queries to event organizer C.A.B. Fredericks at cab.fredericks@slicemagazine.org or 805-455-9962.
FAKE AWP 2011
Friday, February 4th, 2011
8pm to 10pm
at Brooklyn Winery
213 N. 8th Street between Driggs and Roebling, Brooklyn, NY
NO COVER