Allison Silverman has written for some of the greatest satiric minds of television: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Cecily Strong, Tina Fey. When she was in college she would watch comedy onstage and make a note whenever a status shift occurred. “Status informs all humor,” she maintains. So, what is a status shift? Consider a toddler. […]
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I’m sitting in the parking lot of the local public pool, reading and drinking lukewarm coffee, knowing my bladder won’t let me fully relax, watching the clock and feeling the pain in my lower back from this unhealthy sitting position. The lap lanes close at 2:00. I need precisely one hour to do my workout
Watch a recording of this event: Recorded: Friday, January 21 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Bio: Rich Chiappone is the author of three collections of stories and/or essays published in national magazines including Alaska Magazine, Gray’s Sporting Journal, the Sun, and others; and in literaries including Catamaran Literary Reader, Fiction Southeast,
The Opposite Of Trust: A Cold War Novel Of Passion And Betrayal by Rodger Carlyle Every night Ellen would sit on the rickety picnic table next to Wolf Lake, letting the aurora temporarily fill some empty spot. Some nights she could imagine her body converted to electrons dancing across the sky with the aurora taking
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Watch a recording of this event: Recorded: Thursday, December 9 2021 | 6 PM – 7 PM via Zoom Join us as members of Dan Branch’s Juneau writing group read passages of his astute and funny memoir of his time as a new lawyer and Vista volunteer along the Kuskokwim River to the shores of
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Watch a recording of this event: Recorded: Thursday, January 13 2022 | 6 PM – 7 PM via Zoom Let’s jump start our creative process for 2022 with an informal workshop on writing practice, discipline and inspiration. It’s been a tough year, so let’s make the next one a little better. Bio: Heather Lende is
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I was watching Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk, and I found myself performing a familiar exercise: trying to imagine the soldiers as women. Without changing any details of plot or the actors’ essential movements, could I imagine a female in the boy-soldier’s place? What about the boat captain? The sailor? The English commander? What would
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DANIEL NELSON BRANCH, age 70, died peacefully on January 5, 2022, at his home in Juneau. It can be a cliché to say a man lived a full life, but Dan did that and more. He left an indelible mark on people across Alaska with his work as a state attorney, his passion as an
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49 Writers had the honor of interviewing Julia Izumi, an award-winning playwright, Theater Alaska workshop instructor, and Brown University playwriting professor. Below, she shares her thoughts on the writing process, what she’s learned from her mistakes, and the limits of American theater. How do you approach a new play? What is your process? I’ll get
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I put away my scale for the month of January. Generally, I believe in weighing myself daily, which research supports as helping with weight control. But I could tell I was investing too much in the flashing numbers, being buoyed or dismayed by small fluctuations instead of putting emphasis on real health: how I feel,
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