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
It’s a Marathon: Crossing the Publication Finish Line by Beth Mathews Read More »
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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Step 1: READ YOUR BRAINS OUT Move to a town famous for its writing culture. Maybe there’s a fancy MFA program you wouldn’t even try to get into, or a local history of invested writers, and nearly every barista slinging lattes and croissants has published a volume of poetry. Immerse yourself in the regional literature,
How to Write a Novel in 25 Years or Less by Christine Byl Read More »
I take that phrase from a newsletter I read this week by learning expert Scott Young. Reviewing The Handbook of Creativity by Robert Sternberg, Young synthesizes this takeaway: Creativity is a by-product of acquired expertise and a willingness to take intellectual risks. Lately I’ve been struggling to decide what my next novel will be. Over
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