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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Spruce Tip Beer. A Haiku. A train, a glacier, a howl. A late night walk down a deserted main street. One white blossom set in the deep leaf of a rhubarb. And forty people who notice it. Faculty member Lynn Schooler with conference participants Maggie and Carolyn Just thinking about the North Words Writers
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Leigh Newman spent August in the Mary Jane cabin. Photo by Elise Giordano In August 1897, Alaska’s first literary icon landed on the beach in Dyea at the beginning of his overland journey to the Yukon gold fields. Jack London, then a 21-year-old adventure-seeker, found among Dyea’s clustered beach of dogs and humanity the beginnings of
As the year approaches its close, we have been reviewing program activities undertaken by 49 Writers in 2013 in pursuit of our mission: supporting the artistic development of writers throughout Alaska, fostering a writing community, and building an audience for literature. The blog is where it all started in 2008, and it remains a keystone
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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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Jeff Brady is one of the North Words Writers Symposium organizers, along with Buckwheat Donahue and Daniel Henry. He owns Skaguay News Depot & Books, publishes The Skagway News, and also has a small press, Lynn Canal Publishing. Pictured above: Jeff and Dorothy Brady outside one of their cabins on West Creek in Dyea, which they are
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