July 2014

From Our Archives: 49 Writers Interview with Willie Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow

Willie Hensley Back in 2009, we caught up with Inupiat elder and activist Willie Hensley as he was preparing for his first book tour for Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People. Fifty Miles from Tomorrow is your first book. What inspired you to write it? I wrote Fifty Miles from Tomorrow,

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Linda: 49 Writers Weekly Roundup

Crosscurrents Southeast, featuring Alaskan authors Sherry Simpson (right) and Ernestine Hayes, is coming your way! Combining our popular Crosscurrents on-stage conversation with a creative writing workshop, 49 Writers is pleased to be bringing this program to Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Craig in September 2014. In Juneau, Sherry Simpson will also give a reading at Douglas Public

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From the archives: 49 Writers Interview with Melinda Moustakis

In 2010, Deb interviewed Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award Melinda Moustakis. At the time, she was living in Kalamazoo, MI, but she writes about Alaska, where she lived as a child and where she retains strong ties.   Her collection Bear Down, Bear North, for which she won the Flannery O’Connor award, features stories set in Alaska, one of which appeared in

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Linda: 49 Writers Weekly Roundup

Many thanks to all the writers who submitted to the Anchorage Remembers anthology! We received more than 40 stories, which the selection committee will start reviewing soon. The majority of those stories came from writers who participated in one of the four memoir workshop series offered by this official Centennial project. Stay tuned for details,

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