Poking our heads back in to ask, is everyone ChicaGOING to #AWP next year?
(Crowd starts chanting) Flip their table! Flip their table!
Well that was nice. Did #AWP leave anyone else wanting BaltiMORE?
Yeah yeah, don't worry, we're seeing ourselves out.
Kind of freaked out that we can't find a crab latte anywhere around #AWP.
Maybe we'll do another impromptu #AWP panel in the alley, but this one will be a crab-based writing challenge. Why not? We wouldn't have Frankenstein without such moments.
We're honestly a little surprised by the lack of Edgar Allan Poe crab-themed talks and readings at #AWP this year.
"Chill subs
Cool subs
Mediocre subs
Just okay subs"
#OverheardAtAwp #AWP #AWP26
Happy #AWP Friday. Who has the coffee and advil?
We don't question why anyone's crying so long as you're crying.
So the #AWP bingo center square has to be someone posting something like "Ah! Too much, I have to hide in my hotel room" on social media, huh?
We're going to host an impromptu #AWP26 panel discussion in the alley called "How to Power Through a Multitude of Rejections," but it'll just be a bunch of us weeping on each other's shoulders and sharing a flask of bourbon.
Haha, we forgot this actually happened. It was fall of 2025 at the time in case you want a time stamp on that foolery.
Haven't used this account in a while—our bad!
Anyway, if you're looking for our books at #AWP26, just head to the book booths, find the prestigious presses and publishers, and ask to see the rejections section behind the curtain on their Submittable accounts.
Bam! There we are!
Love checking email and remembering we got maybe a little drunkish last night and ordered some books.
Hey, don't worry—I just checked, and that one press you like that was closed for submissions in 2023 says they're going to consider opening for submissions in 2024.
[throws sheets off the bed, pushes aside beard longer than Rip Van Winkle's to get to keyboard]
Why, we've overslept! It's September submittin' time!
Nice job, lit mag who left our submission marked "Received" for one full calendar year before opening it long enough to reject it. Your love for the written word is evident. You are true literary citizens.
The Literary Citizen slowly realizes they are about as successful with agent queries as they were at asking out the cute love interest in 8th grade...
We'll save you the time and clicks: No, the agent didn't send you an email overnight. No, none of the other agents did either.
Or maybe they think email goes to the regular, actual mailbox? Maybe someone could offer a tutorial?
Hey, does anyone know if maybe the literary agents wifi is down? Like, all of the agents, everywhere? It would explain a lot, really.
Be careful out there, writers.
We could pay your $35 literary contest submission fee, or we could grab our crotches in your direction like DMX in the process of losing his mind up in here, up in here.
Agreed and also please tell that to everyone we've sent query letters to. 🫤
We would do simultaneous subs, to be clear, by which we mean we'd leave copies on 10 different buses.
Tried to hype ourselves up for a new round of queries to literary agents, but we're wondering if we'd have a higher success rate by just leaving the first 10 pages on a bus with our email address at the end.
This is high art
We call this "Days we check Submittable."
ENDORSE (but also read Song of Solomon, of course)
"HoW dId AmErIcAnS vOtE LiKe tHiS?"
Motherfucker, do you know Americans? The people who like AI over Shakespeare?
