Overheard at AWP #483: “Who? Don DeLillo? Who’s Don DeLillo?”
Events
Chris Cooper Reads PBQ!
Yes, we are as happily surprised to see him at AWP as you were. Reciprocal fandom is nice. This is Chris, smiling, just so you know…
Jill Birdsall Awarded Gertrude Stein Award
Jill Birdsall’s short story “Oker’s Pond,” part of her most recent collection, appears in Painted Bride Quarterly Print 6 as a part of Issue 85: Displacement, (which will be back-up online again shortly). We are pleased to announce that another story from the same collection has just been awarded first prize in the Gertrude Stein Award
AWP Postscript
Here’s the trouble with Associated Writing Program’s Annual Conference: It ends.
It ends, and then we are left to process everything we learned, remember every moment that blew us away, hang on to all of those words.
We’re Going to Boston for AWP!
Come see Painted Bride Quarterly at Booth 1209 during the AWP Conference! Our staff will be available for photographs and discussions! Gain bragging rights and be the first to buy our hot-off-the-printers Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual 6. We will also be selling our previous issues, magnets, stickers, and enough swag to make your literary friends jealous!
Why Wait for Saint Patrick? Come to Perch Pub on March 12
Kevin Varrone’s most recent publications include Eephus (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012), and Passyunk Lost and The Philadelphia Experiments (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Boxscore: An Autobiography, a poem sequence about baseball, history, and Philadelphia, is due out as a…