A few years ago Marybeth Holleman and I put together a panel for an AWP (Associated Writers and Writing Programs) conference that we called “Wild Writing Residencies.” With three other writers from around the country, we discussed our experiences with a variety of artist-in-residence programs that take place in national parks and other “wild” places. […]
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Denali National Park and Preserve is seeking applications from writers for the 2012 Artist-in-Residence Program. In the past, the program has featured John Morgan, Nancy Lord and this year, Carolyn Kremers. Artists reside in the historic East Fork cabin, 43 miles inside the park, for a ten-day period between June and mid-September. In return for their
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Apologies for the late posting: Blogger, the software platform that hosts this blog and many others, was out of action for the past almost 24 hours. Thankfully, all is returning to normal now: thanks for your patience. Happy Friday the 13th, and thanks so much to all who turned out for our volunteer Meet, Greet,
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It was my good fortune this summer to be invited to be “writer-in-the-park” in DenaliNational Park for ten days in August. This is the second year the park has included awriter as part of the AIR (Artist in Residence) program that otherwise includes three or four visual artists each summer. Each artist (with a companion,
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Another week of summer just flooded by! Around the corner is fall, when we’ll kick off our 49 Writers instruction season with an intensive writing retreat with acclaimed author David Vann Sept. 3-5 at Tutka Bay Lodge. Only a handful of slots remain, so if you plan to attend, register today. And if you or
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“As the road crested over its top everything shimmered, the whole landscape gold and scintillating . . .Physical and temporal boundaries dissolved, and it felt like I’d reached a culmination, as if some crucial gap in my life had been filled.” So writes our featured author, John Morgan, of a culminating moment as the first
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For ten marvelous days this past June, I was writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. Here are some excerpts from the journal I kept. Day 1. Driving to the cabin, I saw a group of fourteen caribou being pestered by a pair of long-tailed jaegers—move along! move along!—they swooped and shouted, protecting their territory. Focusing my
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Never mind the uncertainties of publishing, the hours spent drafting and revising, the frustrations of living far from the places where decisions are made. We get to write in Alaska. And now there’s the prospect of wilderness retreats in the heart of Denali National Park, if the writer-in-residence program takes hold. Here, poet John Morgan
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