Guest Blogger, poet, and author Joanna Lilley will begin her upcoming “Milk Run Tour” of Alaska next week with a stop in Juneau. She’ll continue on to Cordova and Anchorage with readings and workshops in all three cities. We’re so pleased to be welcoming our literary neighbor from the Yukon. Click here to register for …
Imagine driving into the woods on a dirt road you have never traveled, looking for a boarded-up cabin, and hoping that it might be a shelter for your family after six weeks on the road. The grass and fireweed is head high, and only the roof is visible from the dirt trace someone called a …
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It’s Friday, and roundup time! We have an extraordinary winter fundraiser coming up that we’re excited to share with you. The 49 Writers Board of Directors and Executive Director Jeremy Pataky warmly invite you to Winter Words, a winter tea and celebration with special guest, novelist Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child and To the Bright …
It’s November 12, and the cherry tree has seven orange leaves clinging to its spindly limbs out in front of my office. The rest of the leaves are a bright mâché on the wet grass. The water and the sky have blended to the color of freshly poured cement and the air is cold as …
49 Writers CLASSES ANCHORAGE | Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2018 from 10 am – 4 pm | More Than War Stories: Practical Steps to Write and Publish Your Book with John Straley | Members or full time students: $69 | General enrollment: $78 Cap: 12 | All experience levels. Registration is open. In this full-day course, novelist and poet John Straley will break …
When I launched the project that would become my book Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold, one of the first people I told was my friend and fellow author Claire Rudolf-Murphy. Claire and Jane Haigh wrote Gold Rush Women, where I first read about Kate. There was a pause in Claire’s …
Happy Winter everyone! At least it feels that way. Daylight savings time ends this weekend, the light is fading quickly, there’s frost most everywhere, and there’s finally snow in parts of the state. As we dip into our darker months, we’re making room for some writing exploration. Coming up soon: John Straley comes to Anchorage …
