A Day in the Life of UA student and intern by Amy Kelleher
During my final semester at the University of Alaska Southeast, I was offered the opportunity to complete an internship with Tidal Echoes. I had heard ...
Choosing Between Projects: Fun Thought Experiments by Andromeda Romano-Lax
When anyone asks me if I’m “writing something at the moment” I have a hard time not looking taken aback. Writing something? I’m always writing ...
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In Praise of Chipmunking by Richard Chiappone
About 4:00 this morning, I was sitting alone in the dark living room, laughing. My wife and the cat were in our bed (and I ...
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Bushwhacked by Anette Coggins
Something was missing in my story. It all just read like bla…bla, and it felt flat and dull. I was working on my nonfiction book, ...
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Bloom Again–a novel that sees collaboration as the seed of hope
by Dawnell Smith Some of my friends steer clear of tough subjects when choosing books, at least some of the time. They want light reading ...
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Catching up on new books by Alaska authors–Just Like a Soldier and What Turtle Blood Tastes Like
Just Like a Soldier: A Memoir Write up by the author Robert Stark Excerpt “I have no background as a farmer. In fact, the largest ...
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An ode to writer’s events
Or how I learned to stop grumbling and love the conference (and workshops, open mics, and lectures) By Lauren Cusimano I hate writers’ conferences. Or, ...
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A Joyless Addiction That—Surprise!—Isn’t Impossible to Quit by Andromeda Romano-Lax
What if you found out that the main reason most people are on social media is not that they like it, but only because they ...
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In Praise of Beta Readers by Rich Chiappone
In a biography of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev by V.S. Pritchett, I came across these two sentences about the writing of Turgenev’s novel Rudin. ...
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