Our second post in a three-part series from March featured author Barry Zellen. Many years ago, I lived in Inuvik, wearing the hat of a small town journalist, with the coolest job in the world, publishing a bilingual newspaper serving the Inuvialuit villages of the Western Arctic, with half the page in English and the […]
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Erin Coughlin Hollowell is a writer, editor, teacher, and poet who lives in Alaska. She has been most recently published in Terrain.org, Crab Creek Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Weber Studies, and Blue Earth Review and was commissioned by the University of Alaska to write poems for the play Bed Sheets. She received her MFA from the
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I’ve been thinking a lot about agents lately. After nine published books, I’ve decided I need one. Backstory: I’ve had two agents before, but neither placed any of my work. Like much I’ve done with my writing (caution: don’t try this at home), I acquired my first agent without putting much thought into it. My
A quiet week, this. Spring break? Or maybe we’re all deep in our projects. I for one am thrilled to be almost through my last revision before submitting my latest novel. More on that later. For now… Whether you’re an emerging or an established writer, you know adage “show, don’t tell.” But how do you
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A late but enthusiastic welcome to our March featured writer, Barry Zellen, who expected to be our April writer but is jumping on board quickly with stories to tell and thoughts to share. His posts will continue next week. I just looked at my calendar and saw that April was just a few days away,
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I happened to be clicking around randomly on just a few of our Alaska writer website sidebar links, and I was pleased to see several exciting Alaska-authored books coming our way. This is not a complete list — in fact, I’m hoping you’ll tell me what I’m missing, whether the forthcoming books are yours or
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Inspired by the Guardian’s “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction,” we posted last month on our own writing rules . Some of my writing friends, though, objected to the very idea of using the words writers and rules in the same sentence. True, these are writers of young adult fiction – a rebellious bunch by nature.
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Many if not most literary journals are predictably similar quarter to quarter; they have a certain aesthetic the reader gets to know, and contain a mix of prose and poetry—rarely art, drama, criticism, or graphic literature. Not so for the Alaska Quarterly Review, which distinguishes itself not just by its general (high) quality but with
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Congratulations to Nancy Lord, who has been selected as this year’s Denali National Park’s Writer in Residence. Nancy will be the Park’s guest during her stay at the East Fork Cabin. John Morgan, last year’s Writer in Residence, was the first in the new program; check out our archives to read about his experience there. And look for
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This June I’ll be on a panel at the new North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway — more on that conference coming up very soon — and contemplating the trip reminded me that I’d really like to read a few good gold rush novels before I go. Do they exist? I have read some wonderful
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