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Crimes Against Mimesis and Linear Narratives by Kristen Ritter

Puzzles and games in fiction serve a different function than mystery and tension. The latter two exist in all fiction and at their heart posit the question: what will happen next? Puzzles stand apart. We have immediate access to the scaffolding. They exist within the more explicitly stated construct of rules and parameters. After all, […]

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War Novels, Combat Women, and the Beautiful Souls Narrative by Kristen Ritter

I was watching Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk, and I found myself performing a familiar exercise: trying to imagine the soldiers as women. Without changing any details of plot or the actors’ essential movements, could I imagine a female in the boy-soldier’s place? What about the boat captain? The sailor? The English commander? What would

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Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference Evolving: By Erin Hollowell

This May 15-18 will mark the return of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference after a year’s hiatus. For nineteen years, the conference has brought together hundreds of writers from around the state and the country to learn from nationally-renowned faculty. Over the past year, the newly expanded Advisory Committee has been discussing how to help

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Writing in a Time of Pandemic: Richard Stokes and Juneau’s Burn Thompson Writers

As the pandemic worsened in early 2020, Juneau’s Burn Thompson Writing Group, like so many others, shifted from in-person to ZOOM meetings. Our routine had been that each of the 6-10 attendees at twice-monthly gatherings passed out copies of their work, then read it aloud. The others then offered suggestions and asked questions, often marking

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