Comments on: writing the west, or … not. yes, it’s AWP, and it’s in Denver http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/ for readers and writers who care about place Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Summer Wood http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Summer Wood Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:09:22 +0000 http://www.allochthonous.com/?p=494#comment-980 Yeah, Tammi, I know what you mean. There are the places you "own" by knowing well, and then -- maybe it's fair to say that the places that haunt your memory and imagination "own you," in a sense? California's Lost Coast is like that for me; a strong enough pull to cause me to set my new novel, WRECKER, there. Partly it's just the unanswered questions that beg to be addressed, the mystery the place holds for me. Fertile ground for thought. Thanks for coming to the panel, thanks for writing in, and please come back often! Yeah, Tammi, I know what you mean. There are the places you “own” by knowing well, and then — maybe it’s fair to say that the places that haunt your memory and imagination “own you,” in a sense? California’s Lost Coast is like that for me; a strong enough pull to cause me to set my new novel, WRECKER, there. Partly it’s just the unanswered questions that beg to be addressed, the mystery the place holds for me.

Fertile ground for thought. Thanks for coming to the panel, thanks for writing in, and please come back often!

]]> By: tammi russell http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/comment-page-1/#comment-979 tammi russell Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:50:45 +0000 http://www.allochthonous.com/?p=494#comment-979 Hi Summer, Just back from the AWP and, like a lot of people, still recovering. Your panel was an excellent kick-off to three days of way to much information. I have pages and pages of notes & thoughts. I wonder if I can share one here on the subject of place: given the vast changes in geography in "the West" I am struck at how small a place we can call our own. Originally from Carmel, CA, an ocean town, I feel I can own that place pretty thoroughly. Yet, just a few hundred miles away, there is Death Valley, a place that I visited first when 15, and return to as often as possible. Although the desert moves me in a profound emotional, even physical way, I still feel like I am a visiter there. I can't own it in the same way I can my little ocean town, or my new home, here among the Flat Irons of Colorado. Hi Summer,
Just back from the AWP and, like a lot of people, still recovering. Your panel was an excellent kick-off to three days of way to much information. I have pages and pages of notes & thoughts. I wonder if I can share one here on the subject of place: given the vast changes in geography in “the West” I am struck at how small a place we can call our own. Originally from Carmel, CA, an ocean town, I feel I can own that place pretty thoroughly. Yet, just a few hundred miles away, there is Death Valley, a place that I visited first when 15, and return to as often as possible. Although the desert moves me in a profound emotional, even physical way, I still feel like I am a visiter there. I can’t own it in the same way I can my little ocean town, or my new home, here among the Flat Irons of Colorado.

]]> By: Summer Wood http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Summer Wood Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:38:28 +0000 http://www.allochthonous.com/?p=494#comment-978 Hey Jennifer and Kristen, Thanks for coming! AWP is a zoo but so many great people, and so much great food for thought, that it's totally worth it. Looking forward to hearing more from you both. I'll be posting on a couple of panels I attended. Feel free to pitch in on what struck you as most useful during the conference! Hey Jennifer and Kristen,

Thanks for coming! AWP is a zoo but so many great people, and so much great food for thought, that it’s totally worth it. Looking forward to hearing more from you both. I’ll be posting on a couple of panels I attended. Feel free to pitch in on what struck you as most useful during the conference!

]]> By: Kristen http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/comment-page-1/#comment-977 Kristen Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:29:19 +0000 http://www.allochthonous.com/?p=494#comment-977 Your panel was the best, by the way. I attended every "western" panel. It was my first conference and loved being around writers. Pam Houston mentioned this blog; I'll be following. And, writing. Your panel was the best, by the way. I attended every “western” panel. It was my first conference and loved being around writers. Pam Houston mentioned this blog; I’ll be following.
And, writing.

]]> By: Jennifer Simpson http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/comment-page-1/#comment-965 Jennifer Simpson Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:55:29 +0000 http://www.allochthonous.com/?p=494#comment-965 Hi Summer! I'll be there with the crew from UNM... and Blue Mesa Review. DO find our table... Your panel sounds great. Hi Summer! I’ll be there with the crew from UNM… and Blue Mesa Review. DO find our table… Your panel sounds great.

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