A friend asked recently if I’d written a screenplay to submit to the Anchorage International Film Festival. And did I know the deadline was a week away? “No,” I said, “It’s a month away.” “Uh-uh,” she said, “One week.” After I screamed no-o-o-o-o-o, I thought long and hard. Do I want to wait yet another […]
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One thing that can be easily said about writing—there’s no shortage of resources to help writers hone their craft. In general, that’s a good thing. But this abundance also adds to confusion as writers try out different rules and formulae, determining in one way or another that there are “have-tos” involved in this enterprise. There’s
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“Still Breathing”, a poem written by the Australasian poet Stephen Oliver, commemorates Derick Burleson, the Alaskan poet who died on December 29, 2016. Oliver reads the poem in this video presentation. “Still Breathing” was first read at Derick’s memorial by his spouse, Nicole Sprague, on April 1, 2017 in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can also read Derick Burleson’s
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Literary Roundup | August 18-31, 2017 Read More »
It’s a crazy hypothetical, but let’s say you could only give one piece of writing advice, and the advice had to be expressed in a single sentence. Based on where we are along our trajectories as writers, each of us would choose differently. In large part because of the developmental editing assistance I render, my
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Artificial intelligence that advances real human creativity This branding hits me straight on, and not in a good way. First off, I’m bothered by “real.” It juxtaposes nicely with “artificial,” but in these days of fake everything, must we now also worry that creativity has gone the way of eyelashes and news? I suppose
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Literary Roundup | July 7-20, 2017 Read More »
It’s that time of year when I begin my days at the keyboard and end them in the garden. It’s hard not to notice the ways one activity informs the other. I’ve written about this before, but after returning from a faculty stint at a writers conference in Alaska’s Garden City, how could I not
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Anchorage, AK – Rasmuson Foundation has named artist Gertrude Svarny of Unalaska its 2017 Distinguished Artist. The award recognizes one Alaska artist annually for a lifetime of creative excellence and contributions to arts and culture in the State. It is accompanied by a $40,000 award that she can use to further immerse herself in the exploration
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“So you’re here to run,” said the Boise physical therapist who was taking a look at my uneven calves—bulky gastrocnemius on the left, more developed soleus muscle on the right—while listening to the story of why my husband and I were in his state, our forty-first in ten months, for just long enough to get
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