Upcoming events at 49 Writers Friday Dec. 12, 7pm: Jimmy Riordan presents Le Roman du Lievre (The Romance of the Rabbit). We’re excited to announce another unique opportunity for the Juneau 49 Writers community in the form of a potluck event hosted by Sarah Isto (1718 Willow Avenue). In 2008 Jimmy Riordan translated the French poet Francis […]
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As always, we’re grateful for you, our readers. And not just because gratitude is good for us …although it is. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sometime early on, maybe the third time Sherrie and I and all three dogs went out, the balance of our understanding shifted. We’d moved in behind the island and brought out the flingers. A few minutes in, one of my tosses went awry, hit a patch of hard pack and kept rolling toward the shore.
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I know, I know. The holidays are coming up way too fast. It’s the season of gratitude, and yet your mind is all caught up in that holiday gift-giving extravaganza that begins…well, let’s not go there. This year, how about mixing it up, gratitude with gift list, by showing some love to your favorite independent
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Cinthia Ritchie In the spirit of gratitude as we look forward to Thanksgiving, here’s a popular post on giving back, first published in 2009, by author Cinthia Richie. Growing up, I read all the time. I read while riding my horse and when I was supposed to be feeding the calves. I read during baling
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Six weeks ago we announced that current Executive Director Linda Ketchum will be leaving 49 Writers at the end of December, and that the Board of Directors was seeking the right person to take over leadership of our small but rapidly growing nonprofit. We focused on recruiting someone from our literary community who could hit
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When I called my father to tell him that I was switching my undergraduate major from Biomedical Engineering to English he remarked, “And how are you going to make a living?” If only I had known then about the myriad options for English majors, the unlimited prospects for those who have learned to craft language
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“Are you sure about this?” my wife, Sherrie, breathed. She glanced over her shoulder toward the comforting glow of our house on the lake shore, then gazed ahead, where a black wolf stood on the ice in the gathering twilight. Bundled against the Southeast Alaska cold, we’d taken along just one of our three dogs—our
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If you’ve published a book, either the traditional way or on your own, you know what I mean by business creep: the way the business side of writing, especially promotion and marketing, can take over your life. For as much as we hear about buzz, there have to be limits to what we’ll do to
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“I am sorry to say that ordinary scientific books are in nearly every case written by men who have no capacity to explain anything.” Anchorage author Bill Streever set out in part to defy this assertion by Thomas Edison, writing a book on ordinary topic that has proved to be anything but ordinary. In fact,
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