Gearing up for AWP

We here at Sycamore Review are gearing up for AWP in Austin. I'm leaving with Mark, SR's Fiction Editor, on an early, early plane on Wednesday so we can set up the table at the bookfair and be ready for Thursday's influx of writers. Barney, our Managing Editor, has left already - he's driving, and visiting friends - and will meet us in Austin on Wednesdsay. I keep going back to the gigantic AWP Schedule .pdf to double check that I haven't forgotten about something I really want to see.

Meanwhile, there are things that must be done. The English Department's copy lady seems to have put our order for "How to Submit to Sycamore Review" flyers on hold, and our freebie postcards won't be ready to pick up until Monday or Tuesday. And there's a "Who's Going to Man the Table" sign-up sheet on the office door that no one seems to want to sign...

But we're all excited. We're hoping to meet Tony Hoagland, who judged our 2005 Wabash Prize for Poetry, as well as hear him read. And Mark and I both are hoping to meet up with past mentors (Janet Burroway and Martha Collins, respectively).

We'll be blogging away at AWP, posting pictures and anecdotes here rather than at our usual site (http://www.cla.purdue.edu/sycamore), so check back.