Guest blogger Craig Childs will be speaking Thursday, June 21, from 5-7 PM at the UAA/APU Consortium Library in room 307, presented by the University of Alaska Campus Bookstore. Craig’s new book, Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America, chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and […]
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Someone told me the other day that he and his friends used to say, “If summer is on a Saturday this year, we should have a barbecue!” He was from Wyoming, but it seemed like a very Alaskan sentiment too. We race around taking in as much daylight and good weather as we can, and
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Guest blogger James Engelhardt will be participating in Poetry Solstice next week in Anchorage. It’s a celebration of three poets and their new work. Please join us for readings by James Engelhardt, Peggy Shumaker, and Erin Coughlin Hollowell on Tuesday, June 19 at The Writer’s Block Bookstore and Café in Spenard. The reading begins at
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Guest blogger Erin Coughlin Hollowell will be participating in Poetry Solstice next week in Anchorage. It’s a celebration of three poets and their new work: Erin, Peggy Shumaker, and James Englelhardt. Please join us at their reading Tuesday, June 19 at The Writer’s Block Bookstore and Café in Spenard. The reading begins at 7 pm,
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Guest Blogger Marian Call will be performing tonight, Sunday June 10, at Rainy Retreat books in Juneau with author Nicole Dieker. Some city names spark stars in the eyes any young musician: Nashville. Austin. Seattle. Atlanta. It’s natural for artists to gather in hubs; poets go to New England, filmmakers go to Los Angeles, found
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SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 7 PM at Writer’s Block Bookstore and Cafe in Spenard, Alaska | Poetry Solstice: Live Poetry. Preceded by a reception with the authors, this event celebrates the launching of three new titles from Boreal Books, a Red Hen Press imprint that’s been publishing Alaskan literature for 10
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend! We’re on the road like many of you. Do you ever find travel to be a good trigger for your writing? Maybe its similar to the way walking stimulates the ruminating brain. I think car trips and plane rides can have a similar effect–of course seeing new things and new places
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As the editor of “The Billfold,” I get a lot of emails from writers that include some variation of “This is my first pitch.” Sometimes they apologize in advance for the mistakes they’re sure they’ve made; other times they ask me for feedback. No matter how they phrase it, this declaration gets in the way
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SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | Wednesday, May 23, Danger Close Alaska with Don Rearden We’re proud to present the 2018 offering of Danger Close Alaska, the third year of joint 49 Writers and Alaska Humanities Forum programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. Everyone is welcome to attend. This year, Danger Close Alaska takes place one night
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You know the old saying: federal decision-makers who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in rural Alaska. (Wait, maybe that’s not quite it.) In our latest installment of Active Voice: Writers Respond, essayist Erica Watson does not hold back as she examines the actions of the current federal administration to move
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