Have you weighed in on the MFA question this week? We’d love to hear from writers who’ve earned MFAs, who are working on MFAs, or who are wondering if they should pursue MFAs. Another popular post this week was part two of featured author Ken Waldman’s “In Defense of Self-Promotion.” Ken’s post along with Mark […]
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Recently, Nancy Lord wrote about our need for libraries. Today, we direct you to an ADN Community Voices blogpost by Bill Sherwonit about the Anchorage public library system’s current challenges. Sherwonit says, It’s not like local libraries and their staffs are living high on the hog. If the Daily News is correct and Sullivan’s proposed
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At the post office, I take all the clothing catalogs directly from my box to the recycling bin, to avoid unnecessary temptation. I may need a new pair of boots, but I can’t afford them presently, thanks to some recession-era realities that have hit my home. And yet, I certainly didn’t recycle this month’s tempting
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It was a late February 1995 episode that taught me I better get out and self-promote. I’d recently moved back to Juneau and was freelancing. Though the title Alaska’s Fiddling Poet was yet to be coined, for months I’d been attempting to cobble a living combining writing, teaching, and fiddling. This new venture of mine
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I used to fret over my penchant for organization and analysis, thinking good writers were so right-brained they could hardly hold their heads up. Thanks to the “dancer test,” I breathed a big sigh of relief: by this measure, I couldn’t be more right-brained. (Though retaking it to set up this link, I turned up
We might still be waiting for snow here in Anchorage, but that’s not stopping the 2009 Mushing History Conference, bringing together authors, historians, researchers, writers, veteran mushers and supporters of the colorful history of sled dog travel. In addition to several well-known mushers, speakers and presenters will include Jane Haigh of Kenai, author of Gold
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The political writer Joe Klein (Primary Colors) has written, “Libraries are places where we writers go after we die, if we’re lucky. We’re going to live on through libraries. But there is also something more. In addition to being a place that we go after we die, (if we are lucky,) libraries are also the
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I’m having trouble getting online at all today (make it all this month) because I have not one but TWO kids at home, taking part in NaNoWriMo. Anyone out there taking part in the month-long event, which challenges participants to write an entire fast-draft novel of 50,000 words (less for the younger participants) in the
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There’s no getting around promotion: writers and books need it. With his penchant for both language and entertainment, 49 Writers featured author Ken Waldman is a master promoter. It all starts with recognizing and acting on opportunities. I was going to title this post In Defense of Self-Publishing, but recall how Ned Rozell covered that
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Marilyn Sigman of Homer has an impressive resume: director of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, winner of the Alaska Conservation Foundation’s Jerry S. Dixon Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, former statewide coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s ‘Alaska Wildlife Curriculum’ program, past chairman of the Alaska Natural History Association, and
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