2019

Lynn Lovegreen | Writing Community: Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference 2019

I had the good fortune to attend the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference this month. The annual gathering celebrated its 18th this year, and I’ve been there for most of them, because of its writing community. The Kachemak Bay Campus of the Kenai Peninsula College hosts the conference, under the University of Alaska Anchorage. Thanks to […]

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Mary Odden | A Review of One Water by Rob McCue

Last month, 49 Writers hosted a Crosscurrents conversation in Anchorage at the Writers Block featuring three Boreal Books authors—Rob McCue, Mary Odden, and Susanna Mishler—with Jeremy Pataky moderating. We’re pleased to cross-post this review of McCue’s book by Mary Odden, whose own book is forthcoming from Boreal Books. This review—plus several photographs not included here—was

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John Morgan | Collected Poems

When I was a teenager, just getting interested in poetry, I acquired a volume of the Collected Poems by Winfield Townley Scott. “Winfield Townley who?” you may ask. In fact, he was a known (maybe not very well-known) writer back then. He’d won the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1939,

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Andromeda Romano-Lax | An interview with Caroline Van Hemert, author of “The Sun is a Compass”

49 Writers and the Anchorage Museum present a talk and book signing with Caroline Van Hemert on Wednesday, March 20 from 7-8:30 PM for her newly released book, a memoir that blends Alaska adventure, natural history and personal narrative. Hear stories about her 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Chukchi Sea. Her research

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Literary Roundup | March 8-14, 2019

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming details on the following exciting 49 Writers programs: JUNEAU and ANCHORAGE | Writers, Seekers, Pilgrims: A Session on Thomas Merton taught by Kathleen Witkowska Tarr Juneau: Friday, March 8, 2019 | 5:30 – 9 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church library. Anchorage: Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 2-6 pm at Anchorage Community House3502 Spenard Road,

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Jeremy Pataky | Winter Words Fundraiser Blossoms at the Home of Barbara Hood

We threw our Winter Words celebration on a rather spring-like afternoon last Sunday in Anchorage’s Stuckagain Heights neighborhood. Originally slated for December 2nd, we postponed due to—you guessed it—the November 30th earthquake. Interim Board President Barbara Hood hosted this fundraiser in her home. It was a gorgeous day with lush light, long views, and great company (not to mention stable ground). It felt

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