The seats are filling, but we still have room in the upcoming 4-week class, “Writing the Intimate and the Explicit,” which will meet Wednesday nights beginning Oct 1 from 6:30-8:30 pm. To get a sense of the questions and exercises that will be featured, read my original June post on the topic, to which I’ll […]
Andromeda: Intimate and Explicit Scenes–Are You Up for the Challenge? Read More »
A few weeks ago I drove a friend, Loggerhead, from Healy to his dry cabin on the south side of Denali Park. I think he earned the nickname when he worked in Everglades decades ago. I met him more than ten years ago when we both worked for the concessionaire that provides bus transportation into
Douglass Bourne: Hookers, Place, and Writing Workshop Read More »
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Linda: 49 Writers Weekly Roundup Read More »
They’d been begging to take me up mountain for days, but I kept us in the classroom. I am their new white teacher, dedicated. Our schoolhouse is built upon stilts poised above the permafrost. The building’s red has begun to match the fiery colors in the changing tundra; it’s late August in Alaska’s northern most
Alaska Shorts: Up Mountain, by Samuel Chamberlain Read More »
Earlier this month, on returning home from a trip to Denali National Park, I got some exciting news: one of my stories, “Of Waxwings and Goshawks and Standing Up to Power,” has been named a “Notable Essay” in this year’s Best American Essays anthology (joining two other 2014 Alaskan notables, Eva Saulitis and David Stevenson).
Tell us about your background. I’m a full-time writer. To supplement my income, I work as a freelance editor (developmental and proofreading), and I teach creative writing workshops. My undergraduate degree is in English, and I have a Master of Arts in Humanities. I live on Hiland Mountain, outside of Anchorage (in Eagle River, actually),
Kellie Doherty interviews Deb Vanasse, author of Cold Spell Read More »
It wasn’t the friends who laughed or the enemies who mocked him. It wasn’t the strangers who caught the odor and turned away. The unkindest cut came from Rory himself. More than anyone, Rory was disappointed in himself. “Coward!” he snarled. “You’re so afraid of water you won’t even take a shower.” Rory suffered from
Alaska Shorts: Have Courage, by Peter Porco Read More »
Most of us are still on a high from the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat last weekend with poet Carolyn Forché. It was an unforgettable learning experience and many participants generated strong new work in the form of poetry and memoir prose. Carolyn’s teaching focused us and inspired us to find new ways to create and
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Earlier this week I launched a kickstarter campaign to help fund a series of readings. In talking to people about the project and Le Roman du Lièvre, the book that has necessitated it, I have found myself stumbling over my history with the text and the many converging paths that have lead me to this point and
James Riordan: From Obsession to Book Read More »
The early stages of turning my “Animal Stories” idea into a book went remarkably smoothly. Two decades of writing wildlife essays had given me plenty of material to choose from. Though there are some iconic Alaskan animals I haven’t yet encountered and/or examined in story, I had more than enough diversity in the species, locales,
Bill Sherwonit: Getting Tense While Moving from the Present to the Past Read More »
