Puzzles and games in fiction serve a different function than mystery and tension. The latter two exist in all fiction and at their heart posit the question: what will happen next? Puzzles stand apart. We have immediate access to the scaffolding. They exist within the more explicitly stated construct of rules and parameters. After all, […]
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Watch a recording of the event: LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE Recorded: August 16 | 6 PM – 7 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Claudia Mauro is a poet, science writer, and the founding director of the nonprofit literary publisher, Whit
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Warflower: A True Story of Family, Service and Life in Alaska by Robert Stark “On my mother’s side of the family, every male served in the military. On my father’s side of the family, every male served prison time. My brother went to prison and I joined the army, we pride ourselves on family traditions.
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Watch a recording of the event: LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE Recorded: July 19 | 6 PM – 7 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Jasmine An is from the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Naming the No-Name
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If you’re reading this and have published books, you know the challenges of planning even a single book release event. Coordinating a tour is exponentially tougher. From the end of April through the first week of June, I appeared in Skagway, Haines, Juneau, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Homer, Soldotna, Talkeetna (again), Denali Park, and Anchorage (again).
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Everyone stutters occasionally, but only a few of us are stutterers. And those of us who are stutterers don’t always stutter, just as the rest of you don’t always speak perfectly. We all stammer confessing love, but never do if crying out in pain. The well-meaning compliment, “But you’re not stuttering now,” is as hurtful
Below are a few comments from my perspective about my father, Gary Holthaus, and his writing life. His poetry of life was so expansive that many folks now connecting with us will say, “Wow! I did not know he did that too, or wrote that…” We did not know Dad as a writer growing up,
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Linnea Lentfer reads passages from and discusses her debut novel. “Hold the Tide” is told by a young girl who like Lentfer, is raised hunting deer and gathering berries in remote and wild Southeast Alaska. Unlike the author, her protagonist grew up in a prior century, the child of a shunned and threatened single mother.
AVP 19: Linnea Lentfer, Author, “Hold the Tide” Read More »
The authors I admire the most take the biggest risks. They aren’t fearless. They experience fear and they head into the unknown anyway, feeling their way in the dark. When Michael Cunningham began writing The Hours, which started out as a contemporary retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, he knew all the ways it could
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What Does a Fetal Heartbeat Sound Like? —a found poem Like feet running on wet sand. Like horses galloping horses like a hummingbird a hundred hummingbirds in a snowstorm. Like a country music station picked up like being underwater and fish listening to our kicking like an off-balance washing machine like a
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