Watch a recording of this event: READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: SARA GUINN Recorded: Thursday, December 15 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Hosted by: Amy Bushatz Bio: Sara Ayaniuq Guinn is Yup’ik from Bethel, Alaska. She is an English teacher at Bethel Regional High School, where she has worked since 2019. She has a …
Alaska has a new anthology to enjoy this winter: Wheels on Ice, edited by Jessica Cherry and the late Frank Soos. The story behind this publication is bittersweet, given that Soos, a former Alaska Writer Laureate, long-time teacher and 49 Writers board member, died in a solo cycling accident before the book could be completed. …
Watch a recording of this event: READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: MARYBETH HOLLEMAN Recorded: Thursday, November 17 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Bio: Marybeth Holleman’s latest book is the poetry collection tender gravity. She’s also author of The Heart of the Sound, co-author of Among Wolves, and co-editor of Crosscurrents North, among others. …
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I am writing. No, not writing. I am jamming (writer’s style). I have my notes, I have my laptop, I have my coffee. There is an electric blanket in my lap (which allows me to stay cozy enough to create) and a cracked window beside me providing a constant cool breeze (that will keep me …
This is an edited version of a blog post that ran previously on 49 Writers. “If you’re going to live your life based on delusions, and you are, because we all do, then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful? Allow me to suggest this one. The work wants to be made …
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Watch a recording of this event: READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: ELISHABA DOERKSEN Recorded: Thursday, October 20 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Bio: Elishaba Doerksen is the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale—also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. She grew up in a dilapidated 341-square-foot log cabin …
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The day after graduating from J-school in Missoula I unplugged my laptop, packed my boots and clothes, and gave away the pine desk I had made. I mailed home a couple boxes of school newspaper stories, black-and-white prints and negatives, and a dozen books—including the AP Stylebook. It was June 1991, with flowers on trees …
Watch a recording of this event: LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE Recorded: October 18 | 6 PM – 7 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Ann Fisher-Wirth’s seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books in February. Her …
Dusk in Autumn The moon is like a scimitar, A little silver scimitar, A-drifting down the sky. And near beside it is a star, A timid twinkling golden star, That watches likes an eye. And thro’ the nursery window-pane The witches have a fire again, Just like the ones we make,— And now I know …
Watch a recording of the event: FALL 2022 LUIS ALBERTO URREA READING IN ANCHORAGE Recorded: Monday, September 26 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Wilda Marston Theater at Z.J. Loussac Library 3600 Denali St. Anchorage, AK Co-sponsored by Title Wave Books. Bio: Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of …
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