At last a preview of our fall workshop schedule, which includes classes in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Palmer. Registration opens on August 31, when you will find full details posted on the website. We are delighted that some of your favorite instructors are returning to teach again, and that we have the opportunity to welcome some […]
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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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Thank you to the twenty-five wonderful writers and readers who joined us at our inaugural reading and craft talk at Great Harvest Bread Company on Tuesday, on what turned out the be the perfect spring evening. Writer Mary Albanese read from her memoir, Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon, and entertained and informed us with her story of writing the book
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Mingling with more than 9,500 other writers at the sold-out Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference on Chicago’s Lakeshore Drive is an experience to remember (not to mention bouncing from table to table at the enormous bookfair like a kid in a candy store, discovering quirky literary journals you never even knew existed).
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Mark your calendars now! Thanks to partnerships with Epicenter Press and Wrangell Mountains Center, we have been able to arrange for two additional Readings & Crafts Talks and an August Synergies event. On Tuesday, April 24, from 7-8:30 pm, Mary Albanese will talk about writing her memoir, Midnight Sun Arctic Moon, at Great Harvest Bread
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A big thank you to the hundred or so writers and readers who came to this week’s Crosscurrents event to enjoy the on-stage conversation between Alaskan authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Eowyn Ivey. Andromeda read from her latest novel, The Detour, released earlier in the week, and Eowyn – just back from a book release tour
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The most exciting literary news this week is the publication of The Detour, the second novel of 49 Writers co-founder, Andromeda Romano-Lax, which takes place in Italy in the days leading up to World War II. Booklist calls it “a gently haunting work of subtle and surprising wisdom” and Library Journal describes the author as
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Ethereal, bewitching, seductive – thus have reviewers praised Alaska author Eowyn Ivey’s best-selling debut novel The Snow Child. If that sounds like love, so too does the way Ivey’s book was conceived. In her day job at Fireside Books in Palmer, she came upon a
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This week our Writers in the Schools (WITS) program got off to a great start at Kasuun Elementary in Anchorage, where Teeka Ballas, publisher of F Magazine, taught two classes on “Feature Writing” to 6th graders. We’re told the students didn’t want to leave, and that Teeka was mobbed for autographs! The WITS program continues
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We’ve all been in writing classes or conferences where some brash, garrulous novice insists on putting the cart before the horse. Let’s call him Bob. Bob has spit out one or several or a dozen unrevised manuscripts, and may be talking about a series, and maybe even a movie spin-off, before he has learned how
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