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Roundup for Literary Alaska

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Roundup for Literary Alaska

Have news, events, or opportunities you’d like to see listed here? Email details to info (at) 49writers.org with “Roundup” as the subject. Spread the word. Your message must be received by close of business the Wednesday before the roundup is scheduled to run at the latest. Unless your event falls in the “Opportunities and Awards” category, it

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Roundup for Literary Alaska

Have news, events, or opportunities you’d like to see listed here? Email details to info (at) 49writers.org with “Roundup” as the subject. Spread the word. Your message must be received by close of business the Wednesday before the roundup is scheduled to run at the latest. Unless your event falls in the “Opportunities and Awards” category, it

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Deb Vanasse | Dirty Secrets of Revision and Editing

I’ve warned you before—I’m obsessed with gardening. Especially this year, when after thirty-six years in Alaska, I moved to the Oregon Coast, where people informed me that everything would grow bigger and faster than I ever expected. It does. For the connections with writing, I blame Natalie Goldberg, whose wisdom I shared most recently when talking

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Martha Amore | On the Lit Road

Hoarse from hollering over the bar din at Alice’s Champagne Palace, I walked out to the parking lot with my anthology contributors, Teeka Ballas and Dawnell Smith. We’d just finished celebrating the Homer event on our Alaska book tour for Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry. We

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New Digs for the Blog!

It’s been almost nine years to the day since Deb Vanasse posted the very first post on this blog. 49 Writers was not yet a nonprofit organization back then, we had not started offering classes and events, and the blog still had its original name—49 Writers, No Moose. Deb’s first sentence in that first post

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