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From the Archives | Lynn Lovegreen interviews Kathleen Dean Moore

February 6, 2017 / By 49 Writers

In anticipation of author Kathleen Dean Moore and musician Libby Roderick’s appearance tonight in Anchorage, we’re reposting this interview from our archives. Kathleen Dean Moore is best known for her books of nature-focused essays–Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, winner of the 1995 Pacific Northwest Book Award; Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, recipient of the 1999 […]

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49 Writers Literary Roundup | Feb 3-Feb 16, 2017

February 3, 2017 / By 49 Writers

Have news, events, or opportunities you’d like to see listed here? Email details to info (at) 49writers.org with “Roundup” as the subject. Spread the word. Your message must be received by close of business the Wednesday before the roundup is scheduled to run at the latest. Unless your event falls in the “Opportunities and Awards” category, it

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Andromeda | Should we blog our nonfiction book projects?

February 2, 2017 / By 49 Writers

Given that I’ve been blogging since 2008, it’s perhaps ironic that I revisit the tricky question: “Do I bother to blog the nonfiction book that I’m currently writing or recently finished?” Help me out. If you’ve landed here because you’re pondering similar issues, I hope you’ll mull right along with me. First, let me make

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Guest Blogger Cinthia Ritchie | Dazzled by the Past

February 1, 2017 / By 49 Writers

When I was in fourth grade, there was a fat girl in my class. She wore glasses that slid down her nose and hair that hung lank and she had breasts (breasts!) when the rest of the girls in the class wore undershirts with one pink flower embroidered in the middle (bought two for a

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49 Writers | Honoring Gary H. Holthaus

January 26, 2017 / By 49 Writers

We’re glad to partner with Alaska Quarterly Review and the Alaska Humanities Forum on a two-part retrospective celebration of one of Alaska’s most important thinkers and writers, Gary Holthaus. Gary’s been active as a writer and citizen for decades, as the bio below illustrates. A long-time home literary events, Great Harvest Bread Co. in Anchorage

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Guest Blogger Bryan Allen Fierro | Taking Stock

January 25, 2017 / By 49 Writers

It is the day after the Women’s March and I am asking the question: Am I a well-balanced reader when it comes to the multiplicity of writers, especially that of women writers and characters? I sit down in my office this morning to take stock of all the books on my shelves. I want to

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49 Writers Literary Roundup | Jan 20-Feb 2

January 23, 2017 / By 49 Writers

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Guest Blogger Bryan Allen Fierro | Let Me Pin You Down

January 18, 2017 / By 49 Writers

The one question I get more than any other regarding my new fiction collection, Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul, is Did all those stories actually happen? I usually respond with something about truth being no excuse for fiction, or some other defensive-ism that confirms a satisfying enough response for the reader/interrogator. I explain that

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Michael Engelhard | Breitbarted

January 16, 2017 / By 49 Writers

It’s an old saw that, once writers release their creations into the world, they sort of relinquish control over them. Released like birds, words come home to roost or fall prey to sniping ambush. I am not speaking of rights signed over to publishers here, or of the comments sections of online publications—home for truculent

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Deb Vanasse | Balancing Act: A Writer’s Priorities

January 12, 2017 / By 49 Writers

Confession: I obsess over goals. Well, maybe obsess is too strong a word, but I’m definitely in the habit of using the turning of one year to the next as a prompt to look back over what I’ve accomplished and jot a few notes about the projects I hope to pursue in the year to

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