March 2013

Shared by 49 regular K. Tarr, this is more important than anything I have to share today–and just what I’ve needed to hear all month: advice for self-supporting writers, artists, freelancers, and dreamers of all kinds (plus anyone who just wants a chance to hear that soothing “Dr. Who”-style accent).

The first time You always remember your first time. Mine happened in a grove of oak trees, in the middle of summer night, when the sky darkened and the air stilled and all around lingered the damp smell of clover. There was a beach, too, but it was far in the background, and I stood

Sunday Morning Coffee Shop 9:52 am Yuppie moms and dads Trailed by their yuppies in training Order lattes and hot chocolate before sitting In hard-backed chairs at scarred tables, Making their kids read labels on the Sugar packets, talking loud, Drawing attention to their cute and clever kids, Doing whatever it takes to convince themselves

Anchorage author Bill Streever is on APRN’s Talk of Alaska at 10 am today (Tuesday).  Call-in shows are only fun if people actually call in, and Streever says he would welcome writing questions/comments from writers.  Questions can also be posted online.  

A new release by Eva Saulitis; her workshop Prose/Poem is March 23 In my blog post last month, I talked about the transition from writing essays to writing a book length memoir, moving from short to long form.  Today, I’m going to go backwards.  I’m going to talk about the beauty of the small. I

A text from a friend, across the country, yesterday: “Ah, standing in line w/ our WEIRD tribe in Boston.” That tribe is the tribe of writers — including writers who teach writing — now attending the enormous and wonderful word-nerd fest that is the AWP, or the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, which changes locations

Welcome to our March featured author, Cinthia Ritchie, author of the recently released Dolls Behaving Badly. Once, years ago, I taught writing to a group of seniors. No one was particularly talented and one man wrote poems so awkward and cranky that I cringed as he read out loud, cringed not only for his ill-conceived sense

A new literary journal debuts this week from Alaska’s first tribal college. Aglaun publishes creative and academic works, including poetry, memoir/personal essays, short fiction, art and photography, and academic writing. Here, Liz Meredith interview Aglaun founder Caitlin Walls. Q. How did the original idea to begin a literary journal in Barrow come about? Tell us

Anne Coray will be giving a free Reading and Craft  Talk tonight Back in the day, one way to qualify as a “real Alaskan” was to get behind the wheel at 7:20 on a minus 30 winter morning and squint out through a 2-inch peephole that you’d hastily cleared with your ice scraper because you