LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE June 20 | 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Kat Chow is the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir, named a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. She was a reporter at NPR. […]
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE July 18 | 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. As a survivor of the Columbine High School shooting, Krista Hanley (she/her) has turned her trauma into authentic advocacy. Her creative nonfiction writing has […]
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE August 22 | 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Leah Altman (Oglala Lakota) is a Native American transracial adoptee and was raised in the Portland area. She has written for several local and national publications, […]
49 Writers Presents: A Reading Featuring Amy E. Butcher, Instructor for the 2023 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat This year’s featured instructor for the annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat will present a reading in Anchorage before the retreat. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 […]
49 Writers Presents: A Reading Featuring Amy E. Butcher, Instructor for the 2023 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat This year’s featured instructor for the annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat will present a reading in Homer the evening before the retreat. This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 6:00 PM […]
13th annual 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat featuring instruction by Amy E. Butcher - Applications open! September 15-17, 2023, at Tutka Bay Lodge. Amy Butcher is an award-winning essayist and author of Mothertrucker (Little A, 2021), a book that interrogates the realities of female fear, abusive relationships, and America’s quiet epidemic of intimate partner violence set against the […]
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: MELINDA MOUSTAKIS Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 6:30-7:30 PM via Zoom Bio: Melinda Moustakis is the author of the novel Homestead ( Flatiron Books 2023), which is about two unlikely homesteaders in 1950’s Alaska and based on her maternal grandparents who homesteaded in Point MacKenzie, Alaska. Her linked story collection Bear […]
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: SHARON EMMERICHS Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | 7:00-8:00PM via Zoom Bio: Sharon Emmerichs was born in Sweden to American parents and grew up in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan. She has been a writer all her life, from the time she scribbled ‘words’ and pictures on pieces of paper, […]
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: ELYSE GUTTENBERG Wednesday, May15, 2024 | 6:30-7:30PM via Zoom Bio: Elyse Guttenberg is the recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship in Literature and an Artists Initiative Award. Her first novel, Sunder, Eclipse, and Seed, (Penguin, 1990) was shortlisted for best first novel by the International Association […]
WRITERS RETREAT AT THE SHRINE OF ST. THERESE The Shrine of St. Therese 21425 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK Thursday, June 6 - Saturday, June 8 Quieting the Mind, Opening the Senses, Freeing the Words This year’s mindful writing retreat at the beautiful Shrine of St. Therese offers an opportunity to quiet our busy minds and […]
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: MONICA HALL Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 6:30-7:30PM via Zoom Bio: Monica is a speaker, writer, coach, and entrepreneur. In addition to working as a business consultant, Monica has founded several companies, including an eponymous skincare line and a successful business centered on natural, chemical-free body care, and has worked in […]
49 Writers Presents: A Reading Featuring Mieke Eerkens, Instructor for the 2024 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat This year’s featured instructor for the annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat will present a reading in Anchorage before the retreat. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM […]
49 Writers Presents: A Reading Featuring Mieke Eerkens, Instructor for the 2024 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat This year’s featured instructor for the annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat will present a reading in Homer before the retreat. This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM […]
14th Annual 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat featuring instruction by Mieke Eerkens - Applications open! September 20-22/23, 2024, at Tutka Bay Lodge. About the Retreat Join us for a one-of-a-kind writing retreat set against the stunning backdrop of remote coastal Alaska. The Tutka Bay Writers Retreat allows writers of all genres, backgrounds, and experience […]
READING AND CONVERSATION: FAMILY MATTERS featuring Susan Pope and Kate Troll Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 6:30-7:45PM via Zoom This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Family is one of the most complicated subjects an writer can grapple with. Whether we love them, hate them, or something in between, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
