Alaskan poet Mary Kancewick (writing now as Mar Ka) spent the month of July in Vilnius, Lithuania, “trying to improve my knowledge of the Lithuanian language and pursuing research connected to a creative non-fiction project about the effects of political oppression.” Lithuania was, the first of the Eastern Bloc Republics to announce its secession from […]
Hannah Tinti is the 2018 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat guest author and instructor. There are just a couple of open spaces left in the 2018 retreat, so if you’d like to be one of the lucky few to experience the beautiful surroundings at Tutka Bay Lodge and the world class writing instruction from Hannah, please
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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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Explaining what I have been doing in Europe for the last eight months has proved almost as difficult as articulating what I write. (Umm…travel memoir? Personal essays about identity and place?) Since October I have rented apartments in Vienna, Madrid, and Cáceres, so I can explore these cities at leisure and write about my experiences.
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Tomorrow, my wife Joan and I will begin a slow drive south, to Anchorage and then the Kenai. Homer is the destination, though not really the point. I often create this way. In motion, my mind clears, and, as in sunlight after a storm, worlds both fictional and real reappear. At every stop, I pull
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves…” Pico Iyer. I left Alaska last November for a winter’s worth of travel. After 10 years of public school teaching and almost as many living in rural, small town Alaska, I needed a break. Leaving one’s home digs for new environs, no
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