Recorded live on the busiest day of AWP 26 in Baltimore, Josh and Dasha drag a microphone onto the conference floor—ambient noise, raised voices, a missing scarf, and all—for the first of two episodes from the convention. In between the chaos, a conversation about what AWP actually feels like from the inside: the surprising generosity of writers in person versus online, the live blog Josh has been writing from the hotel room between days on the floor, and the way even a conference vlog can become an exercise in the real problems of life writing. Then the main event: a conversation with short story writer and educator Pamela Gullard, whose collection Lake Crescent and Other Spirits just landed her a finalist spot in the Foreword Reviews short fiction contest.

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Links:

Pam Gullard’s Lake Crescent and Other Spirits

Barrett Warner’s Galileo Press

Brad Listi’s otherppl and DeepDive

Edgar Allen Poe’s “exhalation of the spirit”

Theme music: “1982” by See Jazz