It’s time to sign up for classes that start in February and March!!!!! And don’t miss February 5th’s CrossCurrents Event: Who Owns the Story? More details below. 2016 Class Schedule Registration for 2016 classes and workshops has started. Description, details, and registration on our website. Feel free to contact us at 49writers@gmail.com if you have any […]
Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for January 29 Read More »
During the 49 Writers recent Anchorage Resolve to Write event, I enjoyed hearing about everybody’s plans for the upcoming year. I was also interested to hear how much writing everybody accomplished in 2015. Truly inspiring! The event is helping me dive into 2016, a year in which I hope to finish a book of short
Guest Blogger Martha Amore Ponders What Women Want Read More »
Now I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds, said Krishna to both Arjuna on the battlefield and Robert Oppenheimer of the Manhattan Project. These words, for not entirely obvious reasons, rattled around my head yesterday as I wandered the trails behind the University of Alaska, Fairbanks with a long stick. My purpose, among other
Guest Blogger Kris Farmen: Alma Mater Read More »
“He loved Big Brother.” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I
Want to make yourself unpopular? Correct someone’s grammar. And yet, for a writer, grammar isn’t just making sure you’ve got the right their-there-they’re, it’s about understanding how sentence structure and punctuation can be used to make your writing more effective. My students have often jumped to point out e e cummings’s lack of adherence to
Grammar is Your Friend Read More »
There is one seat left for a civilian, and three seats left for veteran/active service members for the Danger Close: Alaska workshop. More info below. Also, now is the time to sign up for classes that start in January and February, including Deb Vanasse’s Craft Intensive: Masterful Writing ONLINE. 2016 Class Schedule Registration for 2016
Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for January 22 Read More »
The first book length memoir I wrote came in at 689 pages. Clearly I had a lot to say back then. The first edit cut 300 pages but still, there were too many pages left to read. At the other end of the wordiness spectrum is a succinct little memoir like the classic,“Wedding dress for
Guest Blogger: Judith Conte on Mini-Memoirs Read More »
“It strikes me that in America we don’t much have a ‘sacred’ place or role for the isolate artist any longer. Everything has been sucked up into marketing and celebrity and the almighty commodity—so if you are a writer, you are meant to sell something. If it sells, it has worth. But in my heart
The Sustainable Writer: What’s Your Return? Read More »
There are times when empirical approaches to history simply don’t do the job. I say this both as a novelist and as a former archaeologist and historic preservation specialist with two college degrees in the subject. For example, there is a mountain in the northern part of the Wrangells called Pingpong Mountain. Back when I
Guest Blogger Kris Farmen: Desktop History Read More »
What is a poetic line, exactly? What difference does it make where the line “breaks?” When we look at words on a page we can instantly identify a poem because a poem is lineated. Lines (or their conspicuous absence) are a large part of what makes a poem a poem. How does a poet decide where the line begins and
Guest Post by Susanna J. Mishler: Line, Please! Read More »
