Sound my Barbaric AWP

Just wanted to give you a heads-up that the 2009 AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) conference is coming up in February in Chicago. I know that probably seems far off in the future, but you're going to want to book a hotel room and start hydrating real soon.

So I've heard, anyway. This conference will be my first one. I'm told to hit as many seminars as I can, and not to miss the bookfair, where watching a bunch of writers awkwardly attempt to network should be worth the price of admission by itself.