49 Writers Blog

With school letting out for the summer today in Anchorage and around the state, it might seem odd that we’re getting excited already about our ...

Sick-lit, I discover today while net-surfing, is an entire misery-memoir subgenre. Its mainstay is the cancer memoir, and it relies on healthy doses of humor, ...

I finished writing my third book almost two months ago. I sent it to Cathie Woods, my editor, and she did her “thing” to it, ...

Late last August I was running along a meadow trail when an undeniable idea arrived that Kim Cornwall’s poem, What Whales and Infants Know, should ...

My middle son, Ross, has been ploughing his way through the Harry Potter series. He sits in our armchair with his legs dangling and a ...

Apologies for the late posting: Blogger, the software platform that hosts this blog and many others, was out of action for the past almost 24 ...

As stated in the sidebar — but even I don’t always notice the sidebar — 49 Writers will be on KSKA 91.1 public radio today ...

We don’t allow shouting caps, exclamation marks, and sales pitches from just anyone, but 49w regular Rich Chiappone of Anchor Point is an exception. Thanks ...