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, […]
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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
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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
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In grand style, our first 49 Writers events of 2011 kicked off in Juneau and Anchorage on Friday night, with Resolve to Write gatherings in Anchorage and Juneau. In Juneau, Therese Harvey and Grace Elliott hosted. Therese reports an even dozen in attendance at the Rookery on a freezing cold Juneau night. She adds, “Among us
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Last week I blogged about my DIY (Do It Yourself) MFA program, a self-propelled effort to ramp up by writing with a commitment to excellence in reading and craft. A few of you kindly asked about my reading list and suggested you might like to read along, which would be an awesome arrangement, like an informal DIYMFA
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Please tell your literary/foodie friends about our next-up class: Stirring Words with Kirsten Dixon, starting Jan. 22. Registration for all of our classes is open now. 49 Writers members and volunteers are invited to an Anchorage potluck gathering to share their writing resolutions for 2011 and to visit with writers Don Rearden and Bill Streever
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Two weeks ago precisely, I mentioned that I was busy getting my husband and 12-year-old daughter out the door for a winter camping trip — one they were doing for school-related reasons. (In other words, this was not my husband’s idea of fun, nor was the timing ideal.) Blogging is not like methodical essay-writing. Hurrying
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Yesterday I was shopping for furniture wax, but the only one I found sounded too dangerous: not only was it combustible, but the fumes could lead to permanent brain damage. Then I got home and learned about the Arizona shooting. It gave me pause. Especially as a writer. It reminded me that the tool of
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If money were no object, I’d have spent the last few years researching and applying to MFA programs; with any luck, I’d be enrolled in one now. But as with much of life, money is an issue, and so instead I embarked last year on what I hope will be the next best thing: a Do
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Over Snow City’s crabby omelets and their world famous Pecan Sticky Bun, Don and his wife, Annette, took me on the exciting ride of a debut novelist. As you may have heard, 49 Writers Board President Don Rearden has a thriller coming out on January 25, 2011: The Raven’s Gift. I had the privilege of
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