A big thank you to everyone who participated in last Sunday’s AlaskaPoets in Late Winter Web-chat organized by Sandra Kleven and Andromeda Romano-Lax. Featured poets Tom Sexton, Gretchen Diemer, Kelsea Habecker, and Nicole Stellon O-Donnell talked about how the season heightens their awareness, where they find inspiration, and some of the events that have shaped […]
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Steve Almond is a writer’s writer — an author who has not only given us one-of-a-kind books (God Bless America, The Evil B.B. Chow, Candyfreak, My Life in Heavy Metal and more), but also shows up frequently in the New York Times, on NPR, and in blogs like The Rumpus, talking up literature, culture, and
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Thanks to Maia Nolan-Partnow, our March featured guest writer and today’s grammar expert! I’ve seen a lot of talk on Facebook lately about serial commas, or, as the kids are calling it, “the Oxford comma.” Apparently now it’s the hip thing to have very strong feelings about whether or not to use a comma immediately
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Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette I love revising. Really. But it’s hard, and harder still to teach. If you don’t believe me, plant yourself
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“The darkness of winter is a great backdrop for the inner landscape of the imagination.” Zack Rogow “It’s that permission to go into the interior that winter–at its best–is about.” Mike Burwell “A mindfulness happens in deep cold. We have to pay attention or we can be in deep trouble. That kind of urgency and
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If you are a young writer or know one, don’t miss today’s deadline, March 23, for our second WYAK contest – Flash Fiction! It’s easy to submit online. We are also accepting submissions from young writers for a print anthology that will be published in early summer. Coming up on Sunday, March 5, 1:00-4:00 pm,
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Writing also includes taking breaks and having fun. Here, participants at the 2011 Write-a-thon do a quick yoga stretch before getting back to their poems, essays, and stories in progress. Want to to feel great today? Try one of these easy, healthy prescriptions. One: sponsor a write-a-thon participant, pledging even the smallest donation– say, $2
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Editor’s note: The rest of the world may think its spring, but here at 49 Writers we’ve been saying (with a wink) that it’s not at all too late to have a (late) winter poetry discussion. Just look outside at the snow! Thanks once again to Sandra Kleven for pioneering and producing this wonderful online
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I started blogging in the fall of 2004. I was 25 and living in New York City, and when I realized just how easy it was to set up my own website and start publishing online, I set up a Blogger account and set to work. I imagined eventually someone would notice it and give
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“People say I don’t take criticism well, but I say, what the hell do they know?” Groucho Marx Some call it resilience, but I think that’s too nice a word, too easy. I prefer bounce, because it often comes with a smack, and the whole game can ride on which way it lands. I’m talking
