tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post115456560621782945..comments2023-07-14T04:28:49.111-06:00Comments on Now What: the writer's edge : part oneLance Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659209766706247259noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1154621011958664022006-08-03T10:03:00.000-06:002006-08-03T10:03:00.000-06:00Thanks to all who made FC2's first "Writer's Edge"...Thanks to all who made FC2's first "Writer's Edge" conference such a success. Although festivals and conferences of writers have become familiar in recent years, I don't recall ever attending one quite like this. There was an intellectual depth, artistic adventurousness, and political awareness that has never seemed to me characteristic of gatherings of "creative writers," and many of us attending felt that we'd discovered a dispersed community of like-minds. The world of experimental and formally innovative writing seems amorphous, fissured, and fragmentary, but it is also vast, and there's no reason why "The Writer's Edge" can't be an annual comming together of this worldwide literary diaspora. If alternative literary culture is to survive under present conditions, it will require extensive collaboration, and FC2 exists to enable this. We look forward to seeing all of you again next year.<BR/><BR/>R. M. Berry<BR/>Publisher, FC2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com