NAWP

You kinda have to keep clicking but you get there eventually...

Hey, that NAWP open mic on Thursday? Links in here:
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Are you sad you're missing AWP? Join our open mic Thursday @ 8:00 pm Eastern!

Wish you could hit the book fair? The hotel bar? Just pile up your 79 unread books you already own by your computer, grab a drink, and get NAWPy!

BE LIKE DUSTI!

And let's say the typo in the first post is just NAWP style.

NAWP Not at AWP (NAWP) is an online literary series of sorts with readings, open mics, and a shouting ostrich.

Also, register! Join the fun on Thursday!

If you want more on what NAWP even is, there's a li'l blurb on the website:

In case you aren't familiar with NAWP, the whole thing started because we're busy teachers/parents, so things come up for us all the time. This is, or better or worse, 100% normal NAWP. Thanks for your flexibility, and we'll see you an hour later than originally planned on Thursday! NAWP!

Small updates on this: Our time has moved to 8pm EST! Registration and attendance are still open!

@notatawp.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social

It's AWP week, which means it's NAWP's time to shine*!

*go to work like normal, do laundry like normal, drag the kids from event to event like normal, stare out the window zoned out & longing at a stoplight for so long the massive F-150 behind you blows its horn louder than Armageddon like normal

Here, we made one of those "Where I'll be at AWP" thingies.

Someone write us a theme song. Something like...

🎶 Take a break from the horrors
with a poem or two.
Sound your yawp at NAWP
because we love you too. 🎶

Can't go to AWP this week? Are you "attending" Not at AWP instead? Hey! That's us! Come read a thing or two or just hang out in the audience this Thursday. NAWP!

Ostriches are tall. Just sayin'.

one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint

[NAWPstrich shyly taps mic, clears throat]

Yes, hello, sorry to be a bother but we wanted to announce again that it is time for our annual NAWP open mic. NAWP stands for Not at AWP and is an online space for writers who, well, you probably figured this out but writers who couldn't get to AWP.
NAWP!

NAWP!

I have a new one that is very close to being ready to send out...lmk if you like eco poetry that tackles AI, social media and representation...if you want a memoir of what it has been like to be an interfaith Jewish kid in a dysfunctional family full of loss, I have that, too.

If any presses want to publish my book in time for next year's AWP in Chicago, that would be cool....just saying

Oh yeah, here:
bsky.app/profile/read...

You're a dog drinking coffee surrounded by a country being burned to the ground (and burning others too). Come enjoy some poems. Take a minute. Read something. Hear other amazing people read theirs. It'll be nice. Take a break from the hellscape.

NAWP!

YOU HEARD HER!

I'm usually such an AWP girlie but I'm staying home this year and I'm reading poems at this event instead! I want to hear you read, too! Sign up and hang out!

I'm gonna need one of you who can attend AWP to let me know if any hotel bars can whip up a crab martini.

Yeah, I've got some FOMO*.

*funky old music on

Now I kinda actually really want to try a crab martini...

Look, whatever, I'm rambling, the point is, do you write? Will you be doing laundry next week instead of ambling about AWP in Baltimore having crab martinis with other writers? Then sign up and register for our open mic!
bsky.app/profile/read...

NAWP has utterly no shade for AWP. This question always comes up this time of year, like those little yellow flowers in the lawn fighting the snow. NAWP loves AWP, or, rather, NAWP actually know little about AWP because, well, NAWP can't AWP.

[NAWPstrich shyly taps mic, clears throat]

Yes, hello, sorry to be a bother but we wanted to announce again that it is time for our annual NAWP open mic. NAWP stands for Not at AWP and is an online space for writers who, well, you probably figured this out but writers who couldn't get to AWP.
NAWP!

Hell yeah! Thanks, Thad, and we'd love to have you join next week's annual open mic, Will! We really only have the one bird, but he's generally very happy and excited.