SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | Friday, April 27, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 PM | Sunrise to Sunset: A Bartlett Night of Stories is a creative showcase of stories, art, and music performed by students. Requested $5 donation to Story Works Alaska. Located at Bartlett High School. ANCHORAGE | April-May 2018 | The UAA Campus Bookstore will […]
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Ed note: 49 Writers is pleased to be a small sponsor of this tiny comic-con. Read on to hear from Alaska Robotics owner, Pat Race about opportunities to and study with the many authors, artists, writers, and songwriters that the conference draws to Juneau. See you there! Juneau’s tiny-sized comic convention takes place this Saturday at the
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Three abreast, rows of well-groomed horses extended over hills and around bends farther than I could see. Riders carried banners from their home regions: Rio Nef, Rio Del Salto, Puerto Bertrand, Villa Castillo. We moved not as band of trail-weary, beaten-down campesinos with hundreds of kilometers behind us. Instead, we marched with flags flying as
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Have you ever had an idea for something, but you weren’t sure you knew how to pull it off? Of course you have. You’re a writer. Everything we do begins with a blank slate: an empty bar napkin, an un-scribbled scrap of paper, a blank computer screen. And yet you do. It begins with three
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Literary Roundup | April 20-26, 2018 SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | April 2018 | The UAA Campus Bookstore will be hosting four more literary events in April 2018. Friday, April 20, from 4–6 PM: George Gee presents Flutters from Side Street: Dry Erase Drawings, Social Discourse, and Political Ramblings. In 1992, George Gee and his wife
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Thanks to everyone who turned out for the fantastic AQR launch last week. We’re excited that Ron Spatz, AQR Editor, is teaching a Demystifying Literary Journals class for us this weekend — lots of folks have signed up, which hopefully means lots of Alaskan work will be landing on editors’ desks in the coming months!
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For what seems a long time, I’ve been revising a novel. I blame my country for this, as I’m devoting a big chunk of my life to community organizing. Right now, it feels like the world needs an American reset more than it needs my novel. This doesn’t mean I’ve lost my sense of
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URGENT—Volunteers Needed for Exceptionally Special Young Writers Conference in Palmer, April 28th at Sherrod School For decades the Young Writers Conference in Palmer has been an annual event that schoolchildren and presenters across the Mat-Su Valley have anticipated with delight. Students hoping to attend must work to be accepted. They have to produce a book:
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Continued from part II. THE FINAL UPLOAD Only a few more steps and my 2002 out-of-print travel narrative, Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez, would be available to e-readers. I did not use the “Kindle Create” feature, now available at Amazon’s KDP, for example, so I can’t speak to its ability to ease the chore
SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | April 2018 | The UAA Campus Bookstore will be hosting three literary events in April 2018. Friday, April 6, from 4-6 PM: Alaskan Author David Brown presents Shadowing Dizzy Gillespie in honor of Gillespie’s 100th birthday. After a chance meeting in Georgetown in 1985, Brown had the opportunity to spend countless hours with Gillespie at performances,
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