EPISODE SUMMARY Beth Ann Mathews, her husband Jim and nine year old son Glen were living a full and vibrant life in Alaska’s capital Juneau, which, as she describes lies, “between the ocean and a retreating glacier, a dynamic landscape that challenged and nurtured us.” She could not have imagined the challenges the family […]
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READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: GERRI BRIGHTWELL Recorded Thursday, May 25, 2023 | 6-7pm via Zoom Gerri Brightwell is a British writer who lives in Alaska. She is the author of the novels Dead of Winter (Salt, 2016), The Dark Lantern (Crown, 2008), Cold Country (Duckworth, 2003), and Turnback Ridge (Torrey House Press, 2022). Her short
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LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE SERIES: MAY 2023 Recorded Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kara Roanhorse, Diné, is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is working on multiple projects focused on Critical Indigenous youth studies, Indigenous/Black feminist critique, and liberation movements. Her creative writing explores radical relationality,
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“You know, you could write a book,” our overnight guest said as I poured coffee into his mug. It was a bright, summer morning in Juneau, Alaska. For months, he’d followed a blog I’d written for family and friends chronicling my healthy husband’s unusual stroke, recovery progress, and alarming setbacks. Our guest’s compliment triggered a
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Are you tired of Twitter? Allergic to TikTok? Resistant to making Instagram reels? For the last six months, I was. Having enjoyed learning some new social media skills in 2021—ah, those months when making reels was actually fun!—my interest began to fade in late 2022, especially as the algorithms kept changing. Then Elon Musk bought
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: KIM HEACOX Recorded: Monday, April 24,2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kim Heacox first came to Alaska in 1979 as a ranger with the National Park Service. A freelance writer now for forty years, he has authored more than a dozen books, five of them for National Geographic. He has twice won
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LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE SERIES: APRIL 2023 Recorded Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kia Corthron’s plays have premiered throughout the U.S. and in London. Her debut novel won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Awards for her work include a Windham Campbell
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I’ve got some go-to hikes. Mt. Marathon’s Jeep trail. Lost Lake. Routine routes, my basis, build a training base. There are surprises. Birds, conditions, thoughts. The same trail is different every hike. But getting the goods – exercise, fresh air, mindset reset – is the same. All I have to do is go. I’ve got
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READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: HEATHER ARUFFO Recorded: Thursday, April 20,2023 | 6-7pm via Zoom Heather Aruffo is a writer based in Fairbanks. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2021, she was awarded the Pen/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared twice in
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Acclaimed author Melinda Moustakis on her debut novel, Homestead. In this first 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast taped LIVE, we go back in time to the last years before Alaska became a state, and the tumultuous relationship of unlikely homesteaders. Inspired by the story of the author’s grandparents, Homestead was reviewed “absolutely remarkable” by the
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