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Haunted By Futility or Saving the World: Writing Climate Crisis by Erica Watson

Over the winter, I spent some time driving to an undisclosed location in the desert with two anarchist medics I’d not met before. The person ...

Rachel Epstein remembers John Haines

I would like to share something with you about my relationship with John Haines. This is not a simple matter given the intimate sides of ...
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New Beginnings: A Guest Post by Marybeth Holleman

Marybeth Holleman is author of Heart of the Sound and co-editor of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment. Her essays, articles, and poems have been ...
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Mariah Oxford interviews Sean Schubert: Infection

Sean Schubert has just published the first of a planned three-novel series about a horrific disaster in the Anchorage area. Infection details the surprise discovery ...
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Andromeda: Ten reasons to join the Raven Write-a-thon

The Raven Write-a-thon event is April 8, but the month leading up to the event — that’s now! — is where the fundraising action is. ...
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Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up

Create a team, join a team, register as an at-home participant from any corner in Alaska, or register and plan to come to our Snow ...
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Ivey: A Partnership, with rules

When I first began work on my debut novel, The Snow Child, I knew I could work fast because the idea was so clear in ...
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Benning: Procrastination (A Parenthetical Post)

Karen Benning is one of many fine volunteers helping to pull together our first Raven Write-a-thon on April 8. The others are: Morgan Grey, Sandy ...
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Where “Special” Means Something Special: A Guest Post by Nancy Lord

The latest Alaska Quarterly Review  (spring & summer 2011 issue) is now available, with another fabulous cover photo (by Clark James Mishler) and a stunning ...
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