This blogpost, in slightly different form, appeared on the blog in 2016. The author has since resettled back in a northern clime, in Canada. A person very close to me is dying. But that is personal, and hard to discuss, even parenthetically.So I begin – I must begin – with ants. Not one but three […]
The Ants but not Only Ants, By Andromeda Romano-Lax Read More »
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
Writing in a Time of Pandemic: Richard Stokes and Juneau’s Burn Thompson Writers Read More »
Two weeks ago, a gang of angry folks followed the request of our out- going president and broke into the U.S. Capital Building. They trashed the place, attacked police, killed one. Others were injured. Brave guards slowed them down long enough for congressmen and senators to be moved to safety. As the smoke cleared and
Carrying Forward our Family Love: By Dan Branch Read More »
Last month, I wrote about things you can do—like developing relationships with other authors and engaging authentically on social media—one to three years before your book is published. Today I’m going to talk about a narrower yet still significant opportunity window, up to a year before pub date and for many months after. Obviously as
Debra Gwartney is the author of I am a Stranger Here Myself, a memoir published in 2019 for which she was awarded the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Last year she won the WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pacific Northwest
REMEMBERING TERRENCE COLE Terrence Cole died on December 12, 2020. He was 67. A lover of family, friends and Alaskan history, he served thirty years as a professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. In May of 2018, Dan Branch and I encountered Terrence at the North Words Writer’s Symposium in Skagway. By then,
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(Photo, Dan Branch) I first met Bob Armstrong on a sodden day in May. My dog and I were thirty miles north of Downtown Juneau on a tidal meadow that borders Eagle River. Low clouds obscured the surrounding mountains. The buds of early blooming wildflowers were clamped shut. Even the resident Canada geese were absent.
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To celebrate the tenth year of 49 Writers’ existence and this blog, we are reposting the work of earlier contributors. Today’s reposting was written by 49 Writers’ founding member, Andromeda Romano-Lax in July, 2011. She is the author of a nonfiction travel narrative and four novels, including Plum Rains, which was published in 2018. According to the
Reposting: Andromeda Romano-Lax—Editing and a Note on Hemingway Read More »
The Covid 19 pandemic is isolating Alaskan writers. We can no longer attend workshopsor public readings. The coffee bars where we met with other writers are closed. To bridge these physical gaps, 49 Writers is providing this on-line forum for Alaskans writing the distance. Birgit Sarrimanolis is today’ artist. APRIL SUPERMOON The earth has completed
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The Covid 19 pandemic is isolating Alaskan writers. We can no longer attend workshops or public readings. The coffee bars where we met with other writers are closed. To bridge these physical gaps, 49 Writers is providing this on-line forum for Alaskans writing the distance. Today’s poem and photograph were created by poet and ceramic
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