Missed my HUMP DAY at AWP!!!

I was in Chicago last Wednesday for the start of an amazing AWP Conference experience. As such, some of this might be stale news, but I am going to fly with it. Here are the ten things that drew my attention before, during, and after I fell into a sink-hole!

Hump over Chi-town

1) Have you had a chance to listen to our Flash Fiction Friday from February 2012? Wisconsin author Norma Bishop reads her “Got Clean Away,” then I read Michelle Reale’s “What Passes for Normal”

http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=8854

2) Head on over to The Lit Pub where Meg Tuite and I dance toe to toe:

http://thelitpub.com/featured-books/domestic-apparition/

Then, for another glimpse of Domestic Apparition, Meg’s novel, head over to The Nervous Breakdown for Paula Bomer’s awesome review:

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/pbomer/2012/02/review-of-domestic-apparition-by-meg-tuite/

3) Lookin for a place to get lucky? I’ve always had a thing about cabins. You? Don’t make assumptions from the name, you have to check this out!

http://freecabinporn.com/

4) I had the great fortune of reading in three distinct and wonderful events while I was at AWP. Here are some photos from the Connotation Press event. Thanks editor-in-chief Ken Robidoux and photographer extra-odinaire Jennifer Tomaloff:

ConnotationPress.com | EVENT BLOG

5) Eryk Wenziak is getting his groove on at the all new rigor mort.us, check out how your print pieces can become mash-ups, erasures, re-mixes and all sorts of flora! http://rigormortus.submishmash.com/submit

6) February SF& D- from creativity guru Joseph Quintela (how did I miss running into you at AWP???), featuring super-talented Eryk Wenziak and many more:

http://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/

7) Amazon: could it get any greedier? An interesting article for writers.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/amazon-pulls-thousands-of-e-books-in-dispute/?ref=todayspaper

8) Roxane Gay (who is as lovely in person as she is in print!) reviews The Help before (now after) The Oscars in NYDN:

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/02/bad-movieworse-book-part-i-why-the-help-is-hopeless

9) Anna March (the Erotic Extrovert!) brings it with “Hungover After a Bad Date” at The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/2012/02/aural-fixations-the-rumpus-mixtape-12-hungover-after-a-bad-date/

10) ‘I Was Born (a Unicorn),’ or so The Unicorns lyric goes…check out Seth Fischer’s Rumpus ‘Notes From a Unicorn’: http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notes-from-a-unicorn/

And last, but by no means least, I received news that my flash fiction piece, “10,000 Dollar Pyramid” (published in elimae, Feb. 2011) was a Finalist in The Micro- Fiction Awards, 2012. Thanks, editor Brandon Hobson (great meeting you in Chicago!), for accepting this for Elimae. Also, Gay Degani, the other judges, and Alan Presley. The Micro Award