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Kansas City
Battle of the Genres (AWP offsite event)
Parlor KCMO 1707 Locust St, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPart cocktail party, part game-show-style fun, this event will be a chance for you to mingle with fellow writers and experience the Battle of the Genres. The below authors will compete for the title of the Ultimate Craft Champion, while you cheer them on with drinks, cheers, and good-natured heckling.With Melissa Febos, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Maurice […]
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AWP Conference: “What Exactly Do You Do?: Jobs as Guides into Our Characters’ Worlds”
Kansas City Convention Center 301 W 13th St #100, Kansas City, MO, United StatesIn Other People's Trades, Primo Levi describes his "vagabond and dilettantish curiosity" about jobs other than his own. This panel features writers who have thought deeply about what their characters do for work—at times fulfilling, at times dangerous, occasionally invented, and usually calling for arcane knowledge, skills, and habits of mind. From sponge diver to […]
