Boston survived AWP! Even with the snow and the wind and the low visibility!
We, too, survived. See the visual evidence below, including photos from the release party for apt‘s third print annual and our misadventures from the bookfair!
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- Event flyers!
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- Carissa Halston, co-founding editor, overeager for the bookfair before it even starts
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- BOOKFAIR!
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- Shannon Walsh, web editor at Anomalous Press, prefers to remain Anomalous
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- Randolph Pfaff, co-founding editor, at table M4
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- Carissa Halston with Anomalous Press co-founder, Erica Mena-Landry
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- Josh Cook, local writer and apt/LF contributor, showing off his skills
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- Carissa Halston, Literary Firsts mastermind, looking as crazy as ever
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- Randolph color coordinates his clothes to his literature.
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- Anomalous editor, David/Raver, also color coordinates with apt!
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- Evan Perriello, local fiction writer, with his story, “The Arrows Are On Their Way”
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- Always by our side, our faithful mascot, Leopold, the Just
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- Buttons of the tandem Carissa-Randolph, the Literary Firsts Flyer girl, and the apt Rocket Man! (buttons courtesy of Anomalous Press)
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- Ladies and gentlemen, apt contributor, Lam Pham!
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- Randolph Pfaff co-hosts the apt release party (Carissa Halston not pictured)
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- Sarah Fawn Montgomery reads at the apt release party
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- Lam Pham reads at the apt release party
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- Steven LaFond reads at the apt release party
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- Denise Warren reads at the apt release party
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- We packed them in at Lir for the apt release party
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- Dolan Morgan reads at the apt release party
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- Alexis Pope reads at the apt release party
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- Michelle Cheever reads at the apt release party
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- Arthur, you look a bit unwell. Some may say undead.
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- Justin Lawrence Daughtery and Carissa Halston at the AGNI reading
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- Ah, young love. (Steven LaFond manhandles editor, Randolph Pfaff)
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- Poet and founder of U35 and Critical Flame, Daniel Evans Pritchard with his poem, “At Dawn: Eurydice”
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- Poet and author of They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights, Gillian Devereux, at table M4!
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- Michael Lynch, author of Underlife and Portico, signs at table M4!
Just in case you’re clamoring for photos and videos from Saturday night’s Literary Firsts reading, all of that is now available at the main LF site.
And, in all the frantic goings-on of the conference and the bookfair, we neglected to mention exciting news. But it’s so important, we feel it really needs its own post. News forthcoming!