So who is Mattox Roesch. the visiting writer who’ll be teaching our Fiction Workshop beginning Feb. 17? For starters, his first novel, Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same (Unbridled ’09), was named one of the best books of 2009 by Booklist and New West. His short fiction has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including The Sun, …
I’m Not A Dog Musher: A Guest Post by Mattox Roesch Read More »
Welcome! You’re in the right place to ask questions from Peggy Shumaker, our Writer Laureate; Vivian Prescott, who divides her time between Sitka and Puerto Rico, and is founder of an organization called “Raven’s Blanket” that is sponsoring a new poetry prize; Zack Rogow, who is not only a prolific poet, but also an award-winning …
With Poets in Winter: Online Discussion Sunday 2 to 5 pm AK time Read More »
Our first Crosscurrents Event, “Environmental Writing & Activism,” was a big success: stimulating conversation, 59 attendees, many books sold and new friends made. Thanks to our authors and co-sponsors. Audio content will be available as a web extra on the KSKA website soon; we’ll let you know when it’s up. The next Crosscurrents Event will …
Thanks to January featured author Marybeth Holleman for this final guest-post. Lately I’ve been puppy-sitting Ivy, a three-month old Siberian Husky-Labrador mix. God, is she cute, and God, is she crazy-wild. The only way to keep her from tearing up my houseplants and irritating my two older dogs is for my husband to walk all …
I promised myself at the beginning of the month that I would try do something each January day to make the year feel truly new, and I’ve found that this “to-do” list has been more fun than my more sober and goal-oriented New Year’s resolutions, which are filled with more “don’ts” than “dos.” My “make …
Andromeda: Get ready for Sunday's online poetry discussion Read More »
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with Alaska’s literary organizations, we bring you this interview with Connie Huff of Alaska Professional Communicators, with thanks to volunteer interviewer Stephanie Jaeger. Can you tell us about the history of APC? Alaska Professional Communicators was originally called Alaska Press Women. Alaska Press Women was founded in …
Stephanie Jaeger interviews Connie Huff, Alaska Professional Communicators Read More »
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 pm, we’re excited to present our first CROSSCURRENTS event: an onstage discussion, “Environmental Writing and Activism,” with Nancy Lord, Marybeth Holleman, and Charles Wohlforth, at Out North Theater. Our thanks to Cook Inletkeeper, the Alaska Center for the Environment, and the Prince William Sound Science Center for co-sponsoring …
On belief and nature writing: a guest post by Charles Wohlforth Read More »
49 Writers is spreading its wings beyond the Anchorage area! Last Tuesday’s ‘Resolve To Write’ event in Homer, co-ordinated by Miranda Weiss, had a great attendance of around 15. Writers of all stripes connected over burger and brew at Alice’s Champagne Palace, received an insider preview and some background stories about Nancy Lord’s new book, …
I have been trying to imagine thousands of red-winged blackbirds falling from the sky, dead, lying on the ground all around me. How must it have felt, to see that, to stand in a field of dead red-winged blackbirds? And what does it mean? We don’t even know what caused their deaths. Fireworks? Maybe. But …
Thanks to Rich Chiappone for this guest-post.My friend Nancy Lord has long considered herself the Queen of All Writing Retreats, and for good reason. Although I don’t have the actual number right here in front of me, I believe that Nancy has enjoyed the hospitality of various writers’ colonies, enclaves and hideaways in all fifty …
