Welcome to your extra day. What will you do with it? I will be standing by to register to you for any of the amazing March or April classes 49 Writers is offering. Maybe you want to learn how to write good endings and achieve closure, or learn about writing through the work of Anna …
Happy Leap Year! – some suggestions for what you can do with that extra day Read More »
Every week, as I compile the Roundup I find myself in the difficult position of accepting to miss out some of the events offered to us. I take this as a good sign. Here are some exciting events offered to us by a vibrant community. 2016 Class Schedule Registration for 2016 classes and workshops has …
Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for February 26 Read More »
Dear Reader, I met Ron Carlson at last summer’s UAA MFA Residency. Which seems a funny thing to say, since there have to be plenty of Ron Carlsons in the United States. But I met THE Ron Carlson, the writer guy. And not only did I meet him; I got to sit down and have …
It’s such a fraught topic, writing rules. Some writers are adamantly against them, feeling that establishing such guidelines is unnecessarily restrictive. Others clasp their writing rules to their chests as if they’ve been stipulated by a burning bush; they need those sideboards to give structure to their writing practice. My writing rules tend to boil …
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 questions. Anchorage Mini Memoirs: Let’s Do Some Writing! taught by Judith Conte February 20-21 and 27-28, 1-3pm What Women Want taught by Martha Amore March 3, 6-9pm …
Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for February 19 Read More »
A poem’s form consists of the structural “rules” concerning elements like meter, rhyme, alliteration, or repetition. Each poetic form is like a different shaped vase into which water (language) can be poured. Each form has its own particular way of shaping meaning and progressing through a thought. Each has a unique system of organization and …
Guest Blogger Alyse Knorr: Six Poetic Forms at a Party Read More »
Dear Reader, Ever since we wrapped up Danger Close Alaska, I’ve been wondering what the future would hold for an effort like this. Thing is, you do something like this, and maybe it was great, but then maybe it never happens again. Years pass, interest wanes, and then a decade from now, some young writer …
Juliet and Kanga watch me. Standing in lead at the front of the line, they turn and follow me with their eyes as I step onto the runners of my dogsled. For the past fifteen minutes they’ve been clamoring to go—yapping and singing for the night trail and the star-speckled sky. Now they tremble with …
Please substitute writer/poet/dreamer for the word “artist” below: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and …
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 questions. Anchorage Writing from Historical Research taught by Kate Partridge February 13 and 27, 9am-noon Mini Memoirs: Let’s Do Some Writing! taught by Judith Conte February 20-21 …
Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for February 12 Read More »
