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Revisiting His Dash to Stay Still: Pico Iyer on the Craft and Life of a Restless Writer

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A guest post by author and North Words Program Director Daniel Henry. (First Posted in May, 2018). As Time magazine’s travel correspondent since 1986, Pico Iyer has visited nearly every corner of the globe in search of the astonishing, remarkable, bizarre, and profound. He’s the author of bestselling books including Video Night in Kathmandu and The Global […]

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Jeff Brady | 2017 North Words Writers Symposium Rundown

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North Words Writers Symposium wrapped up in Skagway recently. Jeff Brady, co-organizer, provides a vicarious look at this year’s conference. ~ JP  The 8th annual North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway was the biggest yet. About 40 participants from all over Alaska and the Yukon were extolled by keynote author Paul Theroux to get out and

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Daniel Lee Henry | Environmental Rhetoric at the Hobbit Hole

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Last month, 15 people descended upon a remote harbor near Glacier Bay for a week of boot camp to train minds and mouths in the art of environmental rhetoric. Despite the usual uncertainty, shyness, and/or trauma around speech, students signed up for a course because they saw no other way to change public attitudes and laws than to speak

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Dan Henry: Author Mary Roach Brings Body Functions to Skagway

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Mary Roach Best-selling author Mary Roach launched her career by writing about wart surgery on elephants in the San Francisco Zoo. That, and her meticulous description of orgasms and pooping in space were the sorts of experiences that attracted the attentions of Skagway writer/publisher Jeff Brady and his pal, Buckwheat Donahue. Nearly three years ago,

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North Words Writers Symposium: A Guest Post by Heather Lende

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Registration is open, but limited to fifty, for the third annual North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, May 30-June 2, 2012. I’ll be there, as will other Alaskan writers Seth Kantner, Kim Heacox, Deb Vanasse, John Straley, Nick Jans, Dan Henry, David Hunsaker, and Jeff Brady. This year’s keynote speaker is New York-based screenwriter Scott Silver

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Frontier Rhetorician Dan Henry of Haines grades the debate

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“Sarah and Aristotle” by Dan Henry Aside from being shocked at her buffed-up conservative cred, I am wallowing in the rhetorical compost Sarah Palin produced in the vice-presidential debate. The debate coach in me is turning somersaults. I imagine the practice sessions, the feedback, the script, the coaching strategy. Concerning the speaker, Aristotle says, the

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