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, […]
David Vann This interview first ran in 2009; since then, Vann has published several novels, all to wide acclaim. David, thank you for writing the best and most intricately structured book I’ve read this year – a truly amazing read that, by about page 135, I was looking forward to finishing so that I could
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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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Howard Weaver The story of my long love affair with Alaska and the heartbreak that ended it is easy to retrace. For 23 years I chronicled my every turn in the pages of newspapers, in public, for everyone to see. I explored those pages again recently while researching a book about those years and the
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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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The floor of the evergreen forest surrounding Tutka Bay Lodge was covered with ferns and blooming dogwood during the recent Post-Conference Workshop of the Katchemak Bay Writers’ Conference. Renowned essayist Scott Russell Sanders admired them as we walked with him along the boardwalk that connected the lodge to our writing classroom – a renovated skow
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Here’s a handy step-by-step guide from Katherine Fausset and Heidi Bell, who presented The Agent and the Editor at this year’s Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.
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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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Clint Jefferson Farr This article, first published in the Juneau Empire on June 26, 2014, is used with permission of the author and Juneau Empire. Act I – The Hook You know, there comes a time in everyone’s life where they must balance a rock on their nose and vigorously recite the lines of a
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John Straley I thought I would write about craft questions I have never taught or lectured on before. I’m going to keep my posts short and I hope to respond to questions that may come in over the month of July and enter into a dialogue with any of you who are reading these posts.
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