These days when I put on my State Writer hat, it mostly means I’m about to hit the road for some other Alaskan town, and more often than not it means I’m driving. Maybe I’d like to tell you about my travels, but what, I wonder, do we readers and writers want to know from […]
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When Tide, Feather, Snow, my natural history memoir, came out in 2009, I thought there could be no greater thrill than to have strangers from all over the country contact me about the relationships they had with my book—relationships that had nothing to do with me. Then, seven months later, my first daughter was born.
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EVENTS IN ANCHORAGE UAA Bookstore Wednesday, June 15 from 4:00pm-6:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore Author Brendan Jones presents Alaskan Laundry Brendan Jones works in commercial fishing and lives in Sitka, Alaska. A Stegner fellow at Stanford University, he also studied and boxed at Oxford University. His literary work has appeared in the New York Times,
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Not surprisingly, one of my most popular all-time blog posts is about publishing mistakes. I expect every author has made a few, some more than most. The same goes for mistakes involving our writing. In no particular order, here are five big errors I’ve made: Not specializing: No one likes to be pigeonholed, and yet
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When I grew up in the flatland, the only way to see rain was to see it fall on you. If rain was nearby, you might get a sense from the clouds crowding in, but you didn’t see it until it was overhead, surrounding you. I lived there, in several places that were all flatland,
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The morning of the memorial celebration and potluck for Eva Saulitis, the beloved Alaskan writer, biologist, and writing teacher who died of cancer in January at the age of 52, I imagined she’d be there signing copies of her last book—printed just before her death—Becoming Earth. I pictured her sitting at a folding table on
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Spruce Tip Beer. A Haiku. A train, a glacier, a howl. A late night walk down a deserted main street. One white blossom set in the deep leaf of a rhubarb. And forty people who notice it. Faculty member Lynn Schooler with conference participants Maggie and Carolyn Just thinking about the North Words Writers
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EVENTS IN ANCHORAGE UAA Bookstore Monday, June 6 from 11:30am-1:30pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore 5 Authors, 5 Genres Authors Bonnye Matthews, C.M. McCoy, Steven Levi, Sharon Emmerichs and Alyse Knorr share their work in various literary genres. Prehistoric fiction, mystery, fantasy, romance and poetry are on the agenda. • Bonnye Matthews, Winds of Change
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Could it be five years and a few months since this post first ran? With Eowyn’s second novel, To The Bright Edge of the World, due out in early August, we expect buzz to keep building all summer. In the meanwhile, here’s a post she wrote for us in 2011. When I first began work
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A few years ago, I was trying to write about a character who was so real to me in my head, but I couldn’t get her on paper well enough to show her to my readers adequately. After several attempts, I took a long walk, pondering how to bring her to life. I went to
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