Moonlighting and AWP Photos (part 1)

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AWP Conference: See What You Missed (Part 1)

For those of us who weren’t lucky enough to flit across the border to Vancouver this week for the AWP conference, here’s a little taste of what we missed.

The photos are courtesy of AWP’s official shutterbug Richard Allnutt. (Note to those shopping for author headshots —Tod Goldberg, this means you!— Richard does a helluva job)

All photos here are thumbnails, click to open larger version.

Alistair Macleod prior to his keynote address with DC-based writer Howard Norman.





Scene from the Asian American Poets session: Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Tina Chang

That’s Mr. Booker winner, to you.
Michael Ondaatje wows the crowd.

(Note to: *Amardeep Singh: See what I mean about the beard?)

*For those hankering for a serious blog about literary studies, Amardeep Singh and his friends have started The Valve, a new blogspace for academic literary conversations.

Comments

[Christy]

Thanks to you and, through you, to Richard for the glamour shot of Ondaatje.
While I'm sad not to have gone to AWP this year 'round, I'm awfully glad not to have embarrassed myself in an entirely other country (having already done so in the US of A) making goo-goo eyes at the beautiful Mr. O.
Sigh.

[The Happy Booker]

Oh Christy, The Happy Booker has her own fascination (and possible restraining order) with the dashing Mr. O. For a true Ondaatje glamour shot, check out Richard's portfolio (www.rmallnutt.com) and scroll down, you'll see it, taken at Mason last semester--it's a keeper.
You owe me, sister!