Last year at #AWP18, in lieu of being able to secure an event space for the CCM/Entropy AWP reading, I brainstormed an idea to still have, in some small way, a literary performative space. As with most ideas I come up with, it happened as a mixture of caffeinated insanity and sincere impulsivity. The result was #CryingCorner, which I tweeted about mere minutes after conceiving of the idea.
#AWP18 – I'm filming writers reading up to 5min & posting it on social media. Dubbed "The Crying Corner," part of #TheAccomplices initiative, it's my attempt at including those that can't make it to Tampa this year. *Hit me up if you'd like to take part.*
— Michael J Seidlinger (@mjseidlinger) February 26, 2018
Thankfully people dug the idea. At the conference, I filmed over a dozen writers at and around the bookfair. It was a blast. Fast forward a year later and I continued the series past #AWP18 and through to the spring, summer, and fall seasons in New York City. Well, I’m relaunching #CryingCorner. One year later, 52 writers filmed (53 if you count a very good boy’s cameo appearance for the 53rd edition—see below), it’s time for “Season Two.”
Want to read? Find me at #AWP19 and/or hit me up on social media and let’s make it happen.
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Take a look at Season One
1 — Nick White, author of Sweet and Low
2 — Brian Alan Ellis, author of Sad Laughter
3 — Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
4 — Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else
5 — Nadia de Vries, author of Dark Hour
6 — Michael J Seidlinger, author of My Pet Serial Killer
7 — Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue
8 — Chiwan Choi, author of The Yellow House
9 — Mila Jaroniec, author of Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover
10 — Paul Lisiky, author of The Narrow Door
11 — Wendy Ortiz, author of Bruja
12 — Shy Watson, author of Cheap Yellow
13 — Amy Saul-Zerby, author of Deep Camouflage
14 — Rae DelBianco, author of Rough Animals
15 — Brian Allen Carr, author of Sip
16 — Hillary Leftwich, author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock
17 — Michele Filgate, editor of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About
18 — Deirdre Coyle, author of How to Talk to Writers at Parties
19 — Jimin Han, author of A Small Revolution
20 — Joanna Valente, author of Sexting Ghosts
21 — John Maher, news editor at Publishers Weekly
22 — Annie DeWitt, author of White Nights in Split Town City
23 — Cecilia Corrigan, actor and playwright
24 — Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other
25 — Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters
26 — Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse
27 — Jennifer Baker, editor of Everyday People
28 — Trevor Ketner, author of Major Arcana Minneapolis
29 — Joseph Grantham, author of Tom Sawyer
30 — J David Osborne, author of A Minor Storm
31 — Matthew Binder, author of The Absolved
32 — Patrick Nathan, author of Some Hell
33 — Madeline Stevens, author of Devotion
34 — Taylor Larsen, author of Stranger, Father, Beloved
35 — Evan Lavender-Smith, author of From Old Notebooks
36 — Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under
37 — Adam Gnade, author of The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad
38 — Mathias Svalina, author of The Wine-Dark Sea
39 — Kati Stevens, author of Fake
40 — John Wray, author of Godsend
41 — Michael Bible, author of Empire of Light
42 — Leland Cheuk, author of No Good Very Bad Asian
43 — Sady Doyle, author of Trainwreck
44 — Sarah Sala, author of The Ghost Assembly Line
45 — Stephanie Valente, author of Little Fang
46 — Chaya Bhuvaneswar, author of White Dancing Elephants
47 — Kelby Losack, author of The Way We Came In
48 — Scott Adlerberg, author of Jack Waters
49 — Andrew Miller, author of If Only the Names Were Changed
50 — Elizabeth Schmuhl, author of Premonitions
51 — Kurt Caswell, author of Laika’s Window
52 — Matthew Revert, author of Try Not to Think Bad Thoughts
53 — J. Russell Terrier, author of The Treat that Got Away
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