Your official AWP conference bingo card.
Unlike thousands of literary types from across the country, this writer will be will not be attending the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) yearly conference, currently underway in Denver. But I do usually go, and there’s something reassuring about the same rites of passage that occur each year: the sideway-look greetings at each bookfair table, the look of longing of aspiring writers, the grunts of been-there-done-that from the oldsters have gone there since the late 90s. (That last one is me, by the way.) It’s as if each interaction, each routine but important to one’s writing career experience, merits a scratch-off in the lottery card of the mind.
Or maybe it’s all a game of Bingo. So here, without further ado, for those keeping score in Denver and at home, is your official AWP conference bingo card. Print it out, attendees, scratch off each box, and enjoy!
Printable version [pdf]
Well played.
Snort!
Is “one night stand” the same thing as Free Square?
Um, someone needs to seriously print this and and use it. If anyone does, and takes pictures, we will do a post all about them. I swear.
BINGO!
The late 90s!? I attended my first AWP in 1979. There were 250 participants. It was, shall we say, different.
Beat me to it! This is awesome.
How awesome and on-target is this?! My only wish is that it would say “check name tag” ANYWHERE–why limit it to elevators? My elevator square would be “make inane small talk with admired writer in elevator.”
I think I did the name-check in elevator because people often stay away from me, especially at AWP, and elevators are my opportunity to see who they are. I never get to the “inane small talk” phase. Next year, though.
@Hummer all I can say is wow, and I am not worthy.
@Seigal which row BINGOd for you?