Virtual Nonfiction Workshop Series With Erica Watson Dates: December 11, 2024; January 8, 2025; and February 12, 2025 Time: 7:00-8:30pm Location: virtual (Zoom) Description: The purpose of this workshop series is to allow participants the opportunity to give and receive feedback on their work in a facilitated space. The series will consist of three separate […]
Solstice Open Mic Night Join us as we gather again to celebrate our local literary community, our writing, and the turn of the season! When: Thursday, December 12, 6:00-7:30pm Where: Mendenhall Valley Public Library (3025 Diamond Pk Lp, Juneau, AK) What to Bring: Yourself, your friends and family, and your holiday spirit! If you wish, […]
Van Gogh's Starry Night: Winter Solstice Reading (Fairbanks) Join us as we gather to celebrate our local literary community, our writing, and the turn of the season! The theme of this reading is "Van Gogh's Starry Night" so come dressed to impress! Readings will commence at 6:30pm. The event will be punctuated with a costume […]
Open Mic Night Join us for beverages, stories, and a community! If you wish, bring some words to share aloud in the form of a poem, story, or essay (up to 5 minutes). When: Thursday, January 16, 6:30-8:00pm Where: The Rookery Cafe (111 Seward St., Juneau) This event is free and open to the public. […]
WINTER WORDS Join us for a winter celebration and fundraiser! Celebrate the holiday season, connect with other members of the literary community, and enjoy an afternoon with Brendan Isaac Jones, acclaimed author of Whispering Alaska, The Alaskan Laundry, and The Outside Passage. This year's Winter Words fundraiser and gathering will be a cozy afternoon soiree featuring […]
Anchorage Concert Association x 49 Writers Presents: Yarnslingers: A Storytelling Event Theme: Winter's Dark Date: January 29, 2025 Time: 6:30pm Location: Momentum Studios (705 W 59th Ave., Unit C, Anchorage Alaska 99518) Description: Join the Anchorage Concert Association and 49 Writers for an intimate evening of storytelling and community! This event will feature a cast […]
WINTER WORDS Join us for a winter celebration and fundraiser! Celebrate the holiday season, connect with other members of the literary community, and enjoy an afternoon with Ned Rozell, author of Walking My Dog, Jane and summer of gravel and steel, a thru-hike of Alaska, 20 years after the first. This year's Winter Words fundraiser and […]
Memoir Writing with Joselin Linder Date: Wednesdays, February 26 and March 5, 2025 | 2 weeks Time: 5:30-7:30pm AKT Format: Virtual (Zoom) Description: Memoir Writing will provide the tools you need to write a compelling book about a facet of your infinite life, over two weeks, two hours per meeting. Discover how to focus your […]
Writing Sketch Comedy with Joanna Castle Miller Date: Sundays, March 9 - April 13, 2025 | 6 weeks Time: 12:00-2:00pm AKT Format: Virtual (Zoom) Description: Ever wondered why one sketch on Saturday Night Live lives on forever and the next totally flops? How do you turn a funny idea into a successful 3-5 minute comedy […]
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST HISTORIAN 49 Writers members and friends are invited to a “Conversation with national historian and author H.W. Brands” on March 20, 2025, from 4 – 5:30 pm at the A-Loft Hotel, 310 West 36th Avenue. Brands is one of America’s most prolific and preeminent historians and the […]
Intermediate Playwriting with Ryan Buen Date: Mondays, April 14 - May 12, 2025 | 5 weeks Time: 6:00-8:00pm AKT Format: Virtual (Zoom) Description: This course, designed for writers with at a least basic grasp of dramatic writing concepts, will strive to give developing playwrights opportunities to learn through both lecture and practical application. Over five […]
Join us for Tea with Alaska Reads Author Lily Tuzroyluke Tuesday, October 7 Multipurpose Room Wasilla Public Library 5:15 Doors open 5:30-6:30 Presentation 6:30-7:00 meet the author Lily will read from her book Sivulliq: Ancestor and share with us the inspiration behind her debut novel and some writing tips. Fireside Books will have copies […]
The Architecture of a Haunted House: A Horror Craft Intensive with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025 Time: 12:00-2:00pm AKT Format: Virtual (Zoom) Price: $40 for Members | $50 for Non-Members Description: This fiction and literary horror intensive will look at the enduring literary legacy of the haunted house. Through thematic readings, discussions, […]
Reading and Craft Talk with Diane Wilson Date: Thursday, November 6th Location: Mountain View Branch Library Time: 2-3:30pm Address: Mountain View Library, 120 Bragaw St, Anchorage, AK Diane Wilson is the author of five books, including her memoir Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (2006), Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life (2011), […]
Bring in the Clowns: The Literary Uses of Humor with Rich Chiappone Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025 Time: 10am-2pm AKT Format: In Person | Kaladi Brothers Coffee Community Room, 6921 Brayton Dr, Ste 105, Anchorage, AK Price: $80 for Members | $100 for Non-Members Description: If the first objective of any writer is to […]
Join us for drinks, snacks, readings (sign up for a slot!), and all the tidings and biddings of a joyous holiday season and New Year. Free and open to all with limited auction items available for last minute gifts for the ones you love (including yourself).
Join us for drinks, snacks, readings (sign up for a slot!), and all the tidings and biddings of a joyous holiday season and New Year. Free and open to all with limited auction items available for last minute gifts for the ones you love (including yourself).
Join our solstice reading at the Bear Gallery!
The Alaska Literary Field Guide melds art, ecology and poetry in a book that reveals and honors all Alaska beings from the humpback whale and eelgrass to the aurora borealis and beach greens. Join editors and contributors who will share their stories, poems and art.
49 Writers presents a free class for writers of all ages who want to learn sequential storytelling. Here's the link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNik-xFw045XqI6W6TprUf-eXe8HJNWF9mrOiMTtm7MtFv0A/viewform?usp=header
This workshop will focus on developing stories for comics, picture books and graphic novels using a myriad of new media and traditional media formats. Instructor Nathan Shafer is a new media artist and author from Alaska specializing in augmented reality and digital humanities. He received a Creative Capital award in 2020 for his expanded literature touchstone project Wintermoot, a limited series of augmented reality comic books set in an alternate history Alaska.
Here are some examples of his expanded literature work using sequential storytelling:
Goodnight Naruto Runners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk6REyvDxaA
Head Touches Place: The Black Pyramid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzpydVYvmQ