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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/letter-awp/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/meghan-ogieblyn">Meghan O’Gieblyn</a></p>
<p>The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, or AWP, the marquee national writer’s conference, takes place in a different city each year and draws thousands of writers, publishers, and editors from places far and wide across the Republic. It is the kind of gathering where you can grab a drink with the editor who published your short story, peruse a book fair where literary journals and publishing houses have set up booths manned by nervous-looking interns, and hear, three times in a single weekend, that old E.L. Doctorow saw about process: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/letter-awp/#more-3264" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Letter from AWP

The Wonder

<h4 class="p1"><span class="s1">Meghan O'Gieblyn is a writer who lives in Michigan. She is the recipient of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and her essays and reviews have appeared most recently in <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Oxford American</i>, <i>The Point</i>, <i>Guernica</i>, and <i>Boston Review</i>. </span></h4>

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<span class="s1">Meghan O'Gieblyn is a writer who lives in Michigan. She is the recipient of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and her essays and reviews have appeared most recently in <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Oxford American</i>, <i>The Point</i>, <i>Guernica</i>, and <i>Boston Review</i>. </span>