You might have caught him on NPR’s Weekend Edition, explaining how fire walking is really a lot like tossing a hot potato and likening the crunch of hot coals under his feet to popcorn. Or maybe you caught the starred PW review of his recently released Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places: “Streever is […]
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This semester, 49 Writers is offering classes in Anchorage, Juneau, and Palmer. Our thanks go to the Juneau Empire for spreading the word there! Sign up to avoid disappointment; registrations are coming in daily. If you want to focus in-depth on one piece of work or one aspect of your writing, don’t miss the opportunity
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The Better Bombshell asks writers and artists to answer a simple question: Who is the better bombshell? According to the forthcoming anthology’s website, “The project is centered around a simple void in modern media: the lack of positive, multidimensional female role models. Who do today’s young women admire? Who do today’s men covet? What earns
Jo-Ann, Stewart, and Henry A little bit more on video, then I’ll move on to my experience with social media. Lois Gilbert, like any good filmmaker, knows you shoot lots of footage. The magic of the composition comes together with editing, the same way it does in writing. With the unused footage, we decided to
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Dear Writergirl, I’m stuck in my novel and don’t know what to do. Do you have a few minutes to listen to my obsessive chatter? I’m almost finished. In fact I’m on my last chapter. But the whole time I’ve been writing I haven’t been sure if the book should be written it in first- or third-person. It’s
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Paid Up Fifty dollars a month.Back then it was a lot of money,added to base pay, andsent home to wife and baby boy. So Wayne Gross Kleven joined the paratroopers, even though he was afraid of heights, and dying to go home, to sway under silk canopy to Corrigidor. Wayne made it back, lived to see
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Thanks again to everyone who came out to the Anchorage Resolve to Write event, and to Morgan Grey for organizing it, and Martha Amore for hosting. I promised to put up links to the three publications I mentioned during my conversation with Sherry Simpson about writer’s block and other obstacles. These were: 2004 New Yorker
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There is so much happening at 49 Writers it’s hard to keep up – 2013 is off to a great start! First, we’d like to thank the Alaska Humanities Forum for funding Crosscurrents: a Confluence of Writers and Readers, a project that enables us to stage two literary weekends with partners in Barrow and Kodiak.
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“Writing science creatively” feels like an oxymoron when you’re slogging through a science journal article to find a nugget of information that will sing off a page of creative writing or trying to capture the amazement and meaning behind “just the facts” of science. Whether you’re a creative writer with an inquiring mind, a scientist who
Welcome and thank you to our January featured author, Jo-Ann Mapson. Over my twenty-plus years of in publishing, I have experienced the highs of seeing a book made into a TV movie, and my career fall off the map completely. When Solomon’s Oak was published in 2010, I was stunned. My previous publisher had dropped me
