I design in our Tlingit formline design style explained most eloquently by Bill Holm in Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. I create paintings in acrylics, drawings in graphite, and carvings in alder and cedar. I get inspiration from our history, land, people – our culture. I am inspired by works of other […]
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I am STILL working on the Alcan book, the one that I started about two and a quarter years ago. Part of me keeps thinking, Aren’t you done with that book yet? This is taking forever! But the other part of me keeps at it because I want to make this the best novel I
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Homer is beginning to green up, the light pouring in over the mountains and across the bay. It seems early to be thinking about September, but as every Alaskan knows, summer flies by without a glance over its shoulder. With that in mind, early registration for the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat is happening until May 1st at
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2016 Class Schedule Registration for our classes and workshops continues. Description, details, and registration on our website. Feel free to contact us at 49writers@gmail.com if you have any questions. Anchorage Set Your Fiction on Fire taught by Kim Heacox April 13, 6-9pm Homer Confusing the Censor: Nurturing Receptive Mind taught by Peter Kaufmann and Wendy Erd
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ONE THING AT A TIME: This has been the direction I’m moving toward in 2016, and as so often happens, every time I think I am arriving at a new epiphany, I stumble upon something from years past that shows me I ask the same questions and find the same answers again and again. With
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It was a summer morning. I took the jeans from my drawer, lifting them to my face, breathing the aroma of strawberries and hay that still clung to the knees. I pictured myself kneeling in the strawberry fields, earning money for our move to Alaska in 1964. I was in 4th grade when my family
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Are you going to be in Anchorage on Thursday, April 7? Why not join 49 Writers at 7pm at the Anchorage Museum, for a Crosscurrents event entitled “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” featuring award-winning novelists Benjamin Percy and Don Rearden. Ben Percy and Don Rearden will discuss writing fiction that tackles
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2016 Class Schedule Registration for our classes and workshops continues. Description, details, and registration on our website. Feel free to contact us at 49writers@gmail.com if you have any questions. Anchorage Forms of Poetry taught by Alyse Knorr April 6, 13, 20, and 27, 6-9pm Effectively Use Microsoft Word to Publish your Book to Kindle taught by
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