SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | Wednesday, May 23, Danger Close Alaska with Don Rearden We’re proud to present the 2018 offering of Danger Close Alaska, the third year of joint 49 Writers and Alaska Humanities Forum programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. Everyone is welcome to attend. This year, Danger Close Alaska takes place one night […]
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Word went out via email a while back to those on our mailing list announcing the exciting news that Louise Erdrich will be our guest instructor this year at our 8th Annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat. We’re awfully excited that she’s coming and have heard—and seen, as reflected in the high number of applications coming
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I love talking about writing. Poetry. Essays. Fiction. If there’s a discussion about stringing words together, I’m in! Over the years, I’ve attended all types of literary events – workshops, craft talks, university classes, institutes, reading circles. But for this Alaskan, the nirvana of all writing events is the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat. Debra Magpie
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Homer is beginning to green up, the light pouring in over the mountains and across the bay. It seems early to be thinking about September, but as every Alaskan knows, summer flies by without a glance over its shoulder. With that in mind, early registration for the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat is happening until May 1st at
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Sunrise at Tutka Bay Writers Retreat Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal.” ~A. Bronson Alcott Like a note held long in a song, a pair of eagles glides effortlessly across a crisp September sky as sixteen writers
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Best wishes of the season to all our blog followers! We hope your winter break with family and friends is both relaxing and restoring.As the year draws to a close, take a moment to put our January events on your calendar. On January 1, we open registration for our spring semester. Although spring might seem
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Happy St. Andrew’s Day to one and all! Now that the holiday season is officially under way, here are a couple of 49 Writers event to get you in a celebratory mood: On December 3, 7:00 pm, at Great Harvest Bread Company, celebrated Alaskan chef Kirsten Dixon will give a Reading & Craft Talk entitled
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Don’t miss the early bird deadline of May 15 for this year’s Tutka Bay Writers Retreat with award-winning author Pam Houston, September 7-9. If you have been planning to register, now is the time! Pam, who has embarked on an extensive book tour for her new novel Contents May Have Shifted, tells us she is
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This week we are excited to announce the opening of registration for two of our key events—the 49 Writers 2012 Write-a-thon on April 13, 5-11pm at Snow City Café in Anchorage, and the Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, September 7-9. The Write-a-thon is our premiere fundraising event, and this year we are challenging participants to write
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Until six years ago, I was a dabbler, never taking my writing seriously. Winter of 2005, I got the bug. Bad. When I finished that first (and probably last) novel two years later, I found I had a second job, so engrained had the daily writing schedule become. To spur me on, I started attending
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