February 2016

How Writers Improve

Lastweek in this spot, Andromeda started an important discussion on the plateaus we encounter as we learn. Writers are forever learning, which means we’ll forever be hitting plateaus. Eventually, we get past them. We get better—not as quickly as we like, but we do improve. Here’s how: Ganas: A term popularized among English speakers by […]

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Guest Blogger Katey Schultz In Favor of Flashing (fiction, y’all)

What do The Ramones, visual arts portraiture, and the elusive creative genius all have in common? Flash fiction, of course, though I should probably confess that, as a bona fide obsessive when it comes to the flash genre, it’s my personal opinion that all roads lead back to this jaw-dropping, fun, short-form style of writing.

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A Story That Could Be True

I’ve been listening all weekend at the Danger Close: Alaska workshop. I have so much respect for writers learning to offer their heart connections in the most perfect words possible. Stories passed from heart to heart. A Story That Could Be True If you were exchanged in the cradle and your real mother died
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Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for February 5

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

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Guest Bloggers Olga Livshin and Kathleen Tarr – Anna Akhmatova: Disaster Did Not Wither Her

Photo courtesy of Igor B. Runov View of Moscow street taken in January 2016 where Anna Akhmatova admirers have spray-painted her image and fragments from some of her earliest poems across a wall. Translation of above poem: “I was brazen, angry and funny I didn’t know at all this was — happiness.” —from By the

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