February 2011

How to Host an Alaskan Style Book Launch: A guest post by Don Rearden

So the moment you’ve waited for your entire life as a writer has passed, and once again you didn’t win a Pulitzer, despite your best intentions and also not actually having anything published at the time and/or anything worthy of such an award. So you’ll settle for a party to drown your sorrows and launch […]

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Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up

Congratulations to our own Deb Vanasse, Program Director for 49 Writers, who is one of three winners in the Guide to Literary Agents “Dear Lucky Agent” contest for literary fiction. Agent judge Lindsey Clemons of Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents selected Deb based on an excerpt from her current novel-in-progress. The winners receive a free year of

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Medred: Noisy Silence

Silence amplifies every sound. It is an odd thing, but in thesilence you hear the crunch each time a ski pole punches through thefresh, untracked whiteness into old and weathered snow beneath. You hear the hiss of skis on the surface of the buried trail, and a clatter when the skis cross the unseen ice

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So you want to create a graphic novel: A Guest Post by Lee Post

Lee Post’s comic strip, “Your Square Life,” appeared in the Anchorage Press over seven years, for a total of 300 comic strips. Since then, he has had four books published and distributed locally, including two children’s books and a ‘best of’ compilation of the comic strip. Most recently, Post drew the first chapter of A Native Lad by Sarah Hurst

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Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up

Today, Friday February 4th, is First Friday! 49 Writers presents Marybeth Holleman at 5.30pm, at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D Street, Anchorage. Right after that, you can catch Marybeth again: Mike Burwell and Cirque Journal are holding a First Friday reading at MTS Gallery, 3142 Mtn View Drive, 8-10pm, with Marybeth Holleman

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Andromeda: The weather report

Where I’m supposed to be: AWP (writing) conference in Washington DC. Where I am: Boston. Weather: More drippy than blizzardy after all. Played airplane roulette and changed my flight but it looks like my original flight might not be cancelled after all. Reminder to self: You’re always looking for more time to read and write.

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Deb: The C Word

You’ll recall we made quite a fuss here at 49 Writers over our writing resolutions this year, hosting Resolve to Write events in Anchorage, Juneau, and Homer. But the fun didn’t stop there. At our January Board meeting, president Don Rearden opened by asking our Directors to share their resolutions for our still-young 49 Alaska

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