Today I put a copy of my new book (Liveaboard) in the mail to Terry Tempest Williams. I know, bold move. I sent her the book because one of the poems is dedicated to her, and because her bird writing inspired so much of the book. I wanted to find a way to say thank […]
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This week we are excited to announce the opening of registration for two of our key events—the 49 Writers 2012 Write-a-thon on April 13, 5-11pm at Snow City Café in Anchorage, and the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, September 7-9. The Write-a-thon is our premiere fundraising event, and this year we are challenging participants to write
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Yesterday, I received my first Australia edition copies in the mail. It’s always exciting to see the paper, the font size, the inside design. In this case, there’s the additional factor that my Australia publisher, Murdoch Books, decided to change both the cover and the title, from The Detour to The Art Lover. (Yes, I’m
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Welcome to our March featured writer, Maia Nolan-Partnow. My name is Maia, and I’ve fallen off the fiction wagon. I finished my MFA in fiction in 2008, when it seemed like the universe was in the process of aligning itself in a way that would ensure my success as a writer. In the year that
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham They’re tiny and seemingly inconsequential, so the decision appears easy enough: to use or forego quotation marks in literary fiction. I was sold on dumping the little guys after David Vann, one of my literary
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Prior to attending the AWP conference, I spent hours poring over the schedule of events, weighing the relative merits of each panel, and wondering if I could sprint from one session at the Palmer House Hilton to another at the Hilton Chicago in the space of 15 minutes. When I left for Chicago I carried
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Mingling with more than 9,500 other writers at the sold-out Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference on Chicago’s Lakeshore Drive is an experience to remember (not to mention bouncing from table to table at the enormous bookfair like a kid in a candy store, discovering quirky literary journals you never even knew existed).
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Imagine: You write a book. It receives an exceptional top honor. And still, you can’t find it in bookstores across the nation. This is the problem plaguing Barrow writer Debby Dahl Edwardson, whose YA book, My Name Is Not Easy, was a National Book Award nominee. Perhaps you already read the details in the March
It’s about 11 am, and I already have several things to forgive myself for. I intended to get cracking on a novel revision by 9 am. (First draft completed on Dec 31, and two months later, I still haven’t finished even the first round of editing I intend to do before letting the project sit
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The part of a writer that is available for public viewing is what’s on the page. This is the truest version of themselves. Malcolm Gladwell Because I taught high school for many years, I sometimes quip that I enjoy writing because my characters, unlike my students, do as I tell them. Except when they don’t,
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