7 Reasons Why Your AWP16 Proposal Was Rejected

1. Because Claudia Rankine is way more qualified to give the keynote address than you.

Illustration by Alec Longstreth.

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2. The Literary Genius of Fred Durst? Nope.

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3. An all-white, all-male panel? What were you thinking?!

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4. Because you can’t fill an hour reading from the McDonalds secret menu.

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5. Because Creative Native Hawaiian Fiction Seen Through a Non-Fiction Digital Lense: LGBT Issues in the Post-Metamodern Contempory Literary Spotlight Related Arena is not yet a thing.

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6. Nobody blogs anymore, silly!

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7. Because no-one wants to hear about New Poetry from Wombats.

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Wait, everyone wants to hear about New Poetry from Wombats.

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