Thank you to everyone who contributed to the planning of our successful Reading & Craft Talk last week featuring Eva Saulitis. We were glad of the opportunity to collaborate with AQR and, as always, enjoyed the hospitality of Great Harvest Bread Company while appreciating the event coordination by Lucian Childs behind the scenes. Thanks also […]
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Write-a-thon 2013 is off to a great start, thanks to our wonderful community of writers. We have already surpassed the amount raised this time last year! At time of publication, 21 participants have raised $2,902 donated by 76 supporters. We are more than one-third of the way to our fundraising goal of $8,000, with two
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Earlier this week I received an email from an editor informing me that one of my poems had been chosen for an upcoming anthology. Good news, right? The next paragraph suggested that I delete the last two lines in order to “leave the reader with a stronger image at the poem’s end.” I’m all for
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You once said that the goal of the Alaska Native Playwrights Project is to identify Alaska Native artists who are interested in learning the craft of playwriting and help walk them through the creation of their first script. It’s an attempt to begin filling a void in the American dramatic canon, where Alaska Natives are
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We are excited to offer two special events this weekend featuring Homer author Eva Saulitis, who recently published Into Great Silence, described as “a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place—and of the responsibility we have to protect them.” Tonight, Friday, March 22, 7pm, the Alaska Quarterly Review and 49 Writers
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Note: We’re reprinting Joan Braddock’s letter to all of us in the Alaska community who support UA Press, along with these images of some of their newest Spring 2013 catalog titles–all, coincidentally, written by 49 Writers regulars: Mei Mei Evans, our own co-founder Deb Vanasse, and Sara Loewen. Feel free to post this to your FB pages
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I just spent a “naked” weekend down in Seward. Don’t worry, I had my clothes on, or at least most of the time. What was naked, or missing from my life, was Internet connection. I checked my email once (to make sure no one had died), posted on Facebook once (so no one would think
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The annual Write-a-thon is the premier fundraising event of 49 Writers, and once again we are enlisting your involvement and support. No matter where you are, you can help bring in the individual contributions that are the life blood of the organization and its programming by dedicating 4 hours and 9 minutes of your time
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Julie LeMay As poet Li-Young Lee so succinctly put it: “Mystery is good. Obscurity isn’t.” I have found that most poets struggle with being either too prosaic or too abstract. Either we don’t leave enough room for the reader or we lead the reader in multiple directions at the same time. Nearly two years ago
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It’s hard to believe that AWP Boston has come and gone after the long build-up. Writers and literary groups around Alaska are already planning proposals for next year’s AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair in Seattle, February 26-March 1, 2014, which will feature Annie Proulx as the keynote. The proposal deadline is May 1, 2013. Although
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