Listen to the audio: CROSSCURRENTS EVENT: TOM KIZZIA AND SETH KANTNER Moderated by Don Reardon Recorded: Saturday April 2, 2022 7 PM-8:30 PM The Nave, 3502 Spenard Road Anchorage, Alaska Haunted by Alaska: Join us for a Crosscurrents conversation with Tom Kizzia and Seth Kantner, two of Alaska’s most well-known and beloved authors, about how […]
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Northwords 2017: Discovering Paul Theroux By Katie Bausler and Amy O’Neill Houck, 49 Writers Board Members “All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” ~Mao Tse Tung (as quoted by Paul Theroux) Before we signed up for the North Words Writer’s Symposium, held the first weekend in June in Skagway, neither of us had read Paul
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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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Anchorage, AK – Rasmuson Foundation has named artist Gertrude Svarny of Unalaska its 2017 Distinguished Artist. The award recognizes one Alaska artist annually for a lifetime of creative excellence and contributions to arts and culture in the State. It is accompanied by a $40,000 award that she can use to further immerse herself in the exploration
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Deb Vanasse and Melinda Moustakis It was a rare treat to get to talk to both 49 Writers co-founders in the same day! On Monday, Deb Vanasse attended the reading by Melinda Moustakis at the UAA Campus Bookstore. Deb’s latest novel, Cold Spell (University of Alaska Press), makes an excellent summer reading choice. Melinda’s award-winning collection of
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Many thanks to all the writers who submitted to the Anchorage Remembers anthology! We received more than 40 stories, which the selection committee will start reviewing soon. The majority of those stories came from writers who participated in one of the four memoir workshop series offered by this official Centennial project. Stay tuned for details,
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Dana Stabenow & Deb Vanasse It was great to see a classroom full of writers at the Anchorage Museum on Wednesday night, all eager to learn more about Independent Publishing Options for Writers with Dana Stabenow and Deb Vanasse. Dana shared the wisdom she’s gleaned from more than 20 years of traditional and now epublishing;
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A few weeks ago I sent my son off to Bristol Bay, where a job waited as a deckhand on a fishing boat. Ethan was excited to have lined up one of the summer jobs most coveted by teenagers in our small coastal town: high pay and hard work chasing salmon in the wild estuaries
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49 Writers guest blogger Mei Mei Evans (Oil and Water), a University of Alaska Press Alaska Literary Series author Alaska Book Week (October 5-12) had its most successful year yet! In an unprecedented show of support, schools, libraries, publishers, bookstores, writers, and reading circles from Nome to Kodiak brought energy and awareness to Alaska’s burgeoning
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Jim Sweeney at Great Harvest Bread Company Thank you to Jim Sweeney for kicking off our fall Reading & Craft Talk series with his entertaining and enlightening presentation about how he came to write his two books, The List and Alaska Expedition Marine Life Solidarity. It was a great reminder that the journey is different for
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