There is so much happening at 49 Writers it’s hard to keep up – 2013 is off to a great start! First, we’d like to thank the Alaska Humanities Forum for funding Crosscurrents: a Confluence of Writers and Readers, a project that enables us to stage two literary weekends with partners in Barrow and Kodiak. […]
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Happy New Year to one and all! We wish you a creative twelve months and look forward to announcing more work published by the growing list of successful Alaskan writers (at time of writing Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child is #22 on the New York Times paperback fiction best seller list). 49 Writers is here to support
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There’s still time to make a year-end financial gift to 49 Writers! The direct support we receive from the community ensures we can continue offering our programs and activities, and we hope you will enjoy the classes and events that we have planned for you in 2013. It’s easy to donate online – just click
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Best wishes of the season to all our blog followers! We hope your winter break with family and friends is both relaxing and restoring.As the year draws to a close, take a moment to put our January events on your calendar. On January 1, we open registration for our spring semester. Although spring might seem
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Thank you to those of you who have already made a year-end financial gift to 49 Writers in response to our annual appeal for support. Direct contributions from the community make up one-third of our budget, and Alaska’s writers and readers have always been generous in their giving. Visit our website for more information about
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Alaska Book Week display at Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this year’s Alaska Book Week—participants came from all over the state, including Barrow, Bethel, Chugiak, Eagle River, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Nenana, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, and Wasilla, and even from Outside (Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, and
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Please join me in thanking Cinthia Ritchie for taking over the weekly roundup duties while Ela Harrison Gordon is on hiatus – we greatly appreciate her offer to help out. It seems appropriate, therefore, to start off by congratulating Cinthia on her 2012 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award! Cinthia is one of four artists who
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Don’t miss the early bird deadline of May 15 for this year’s Tutka Bay Writers Retreat with award-winning author Pam Houston, September 7-9. If you have been planning to register, now is the time! Pam, who has embarked on an extensive book tour for her new novel Contents May Have Shifted, tells us she is
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Our entire 49 writers “family” wishes you a great new year – with lots of ways to reach those writing goals we know you’re considering as you write your 2011 resolutions. If this is your year to learn and grow, take a class with us: from Storytelling on Jan. 9, to Stirring Words, a food-writing
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I used to fantasize of the perfect writing place. I envisioned a beach house with pale wood floors and white curtains blowing in a breeze as I sat behind a small desk in front of the window, my fingers tapping the keyboard in perfect cadence with the waves. In the meantime, I wrote at a
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