March 2014

It's Write-a-thon time: get creative to support your literary community!

It’s hard to believe (with many of us still experiencing post-AWP syndrome) but the 4th Annual 49 Writers Write-a-thon is fast approaching. Friday, April 11, to be exact about the date. The main time and place: 6-10:30pm, Snow City Café – our gracious hosts since the event’s hopeful beginnings in 2011. Now it’s a firmly

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Sherry Simpson: Essaying Alaska

  Sherry Simpson On Wednesday, Mar. 12, 7 pm at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center (W. 7th Avenue entrance), local author Sherry Simpson (Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska) joins Healy writer Christine Byl (Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods) for an onstage conversation about “Essaying Alaska: Beyond Images of the Last Frontier.” This

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Kathleen Tarr: Poland as Muse

For the next six months or more, I’ll be living solo in Krakow, Poland. I don’t know a single person in Poland and have never been. As a destination, it hardly makes anyone’s top-twenty travel list, though it’s bordered by seven countries, including Ukraine. I seem to be drawn to countries with cataclysmic and tragic

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Andromeda: Why Reading and Revising Our Own Book Manuscripts Is So Hard, Part I

This week, I re-read the novel manuscript I’ve been working on for two years in what is my final significant revision before I send it out (fingers crossed) into the publishing world. I’ll probably sweep through it for typos and discontinuities, again, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m equally blind to many of

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