Don’t miss the very last 49 Writers event of 2013: a New Year’s Eve poetry reading by Joan Naviyuk Kane on Tuesday Dec. 31, 8 pm, 120 West 11th Avenue, to mark the release of Hyperboreal, her second award-winning book. Joan will read selections from this new collection after we enjoy music from Alaskan songwriter Michael Howard. Doors open at 7 pm. Joan is …
Reflection time. As year-in-review lists come flying at us, I hope you’re doing your own, aimed specifically at your journey as a writer. I love looking back at the planning I do at the start of each year as a writer. Inevitably there are things I’d hoped to accomplish but didn’t. No worries: Those roll …
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Don’t miss the very last 49 Writers event of 2013: a New Year’s Eve poetry reading by Joan Naviyuk Kane on Tuesday Dec. 31, 8pm, 120 West 11th Avenue, to mark the release of Hyperboreal, her second award-winning book. Joan will read selections from this new collection after we enjoy music from Alaskan songwriter Michael Howard. Doors open at 7pm. …
Concluding our December series of the most viewed guest author posts of 2013, we can now reveal–drum roll, please–that the most popular was Don Rearden’s unforgettable case for using language with true meaning. A Writer’s Treatise on the Dumbest Three Letter Combination since Homer Simpson’s “D’oh!” I laugh. I love to laugh. I love to …
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In the mad rush of the holidays, it’s easy for writers to forget all they’ve been given. Imagination. The versatility of language. A world of ideas. The joy of discovery. Now, about giving back. It’s been proven time and again that those who have the least give the most. And really, what’s not to like …
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And Though God’s Eye is on the sparrow, this one nevertheless falls today to earth having dashed itself head-long against the windowed wall of my study, a pane it did not see in time to save itself. The unbroken wing folds. The blank black bead of an eye looks skyward. By the time a …
As the year approaches its close, we have been reviewing program activities undertaken by 49 Writers in 2013 in pursuit of our mission: supporting the artistic development of writers throughout Alaska, fostering a writing community, and building an audience for literature. The blog is where it all started in 2008, and it remains a keystone …
Last week, I gave some pointers on ethics and etiquette for book reviews. Some great discussion followed, especially on the point of whether it’s a good idea for writers who know one another to provide honest reviews of each other’s books. Traditional reviewers tend to follow the journalistic rule of not writing on topics in which you …
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October guest author Amy O’Neill Houck generated a lot of interest with her first post on striking a balance between connectedness and community. One of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, has a studio in a small building next to his house. He goes to write in this room that has no internet. I can see …
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