Frank Soos will be honored as Alaska’s new writer laureate at the The Governor’s Awards for Arts & Humanities in Juneau on January 29. I’ll be there along with 49 Writers board member Jeremy Pataky. Join us to make a great showing of Alaska writers! Ticket information here. While in Juneau, I’ll also participate in […]
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When Executive Director Morgan Grey asked how long I’d been helping with the blog at 49 Writers, I had to stop and count. Six years. This amazing statewide writing center got its start as a blog, and the blog remains one of its signature features. Accessible statewide, it’s a way for all of us to
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The first ceremony of the week-long Festival de San Lazaro. We were sitting at a brightly lit café in a neighborhood in Colón. The dirt streets stretched into darkness in each direction. Maybe two houses were lit; the rest faded into the night sky glowing impossibly clear constellations. This was my first dinner in Cuba.
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Silence amplifies every sound. It is an odd thing, but in the silence you hear the crunch each time a ski pole punches through the fresh, untracked whiteness into old and weathered snow beneath. You hear the hiss of skis on the surface of the buried trail, and a clatter when the skis cross the
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With thanks to 49 Writers Executive Director Morgan Grey and to Brooke Warner of SheWrites Press, we’re reprinting this terrific post that first ran on the SheWrites blog. And if we may, two additions, just for you: submit an Alaska Shorts feature, and submit to Spotlight on Alaska Books. Here’s Brooke’s introduction to the list:
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Things are picking up this month with a number of literary events and writerly opportunities. Time to come in from the cold and enjoy the company of good folks and good words. EVENTS IN ANCHORAGE The Living Room: Stories for Grown-upsJoin a community of writers, readers, and listeners every 2nd Friday from 7-9pm at Jitters
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As I write this, I’m sitting in a café on Broadway in New York City, preparing for a round of meetings with my editor and publisher. No doubt they will give me feedback on my novel, BEHAVE, which they will be publishing in the next one to two years. But I may find myself ferreting
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The banner of “Secrets Under the Skin,” from Dr. Jill Flanders Crosby’s/University of Alaska’s .edu page. Jill found me. This is an important distinction to make, she often reminds me. She’d read my MFA thesis, a novel about my grandmother’s life in Cuba—a life filled with spirits and ambiguous religious convictions. When she found me,
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Charles Wohlforth In combing our archives for great posts you may have missed, we came across this one by Charles Wohlforth. First published nearly five years ago, it seems especially timely as we launch a new year of literary enterprises. Writing a book that’s worth reading is hard enough. Doing it without going broke is
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I’ll begin with the same disclaimers as last year: I have no crystal ball. I’m not clairvoyant. And admittedly, Alaska is pretty much as far as a writer can get from the Right Coast publishing industry without needing a passport. But I’ve published several books in a variety of ways—mostly traditional, but also independently and in
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