Right about now, many of you are either en route or getting settled and psyched for finding your place among the 10,000 or so writers who’ll be attending the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. This year’s AWP Conference is in Seattle, a city that enjoys a symbiotic relationship with Alaska that dates […]
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Erin Anais Hanson was born in Ketchikan and raised in Juneau. She is currently a second-year fiction student in UAA’s low-residency MFA program. 1) Always allow your mind to follow a question-train as far as it will go. Questions help build empathy. Empathy is important for many reasons, but is especially essential in creating believable
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Don Rearden grew up on the tundra of Southwest Alaska, and once slept next to a seal. His debut novel The Raven’s Gift will be flying off Canadian shelves in 2011. 1. Be passionate. Write because you love stories, characters, images, words. Don’t write for others, and don’t write with dreams of big checks and
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Ann Chandonnet spent the prime of her life in Alaska (1965-66, 1973-2006) and now lives, gardens and writes in North Carolina where the locals call insignificant pimples on the landscape (600 feet for crying out loud) “mountains.” 1. Keep your day job. 2. Don’t expect the editors of little magazines to be grateful that your
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Lauri Owen, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, started reading fantasy novels in the third grade, and other than taking time out to sleep, never really stopped. For more than a decade, though only in her free time, Lauri worked as a cop, but in 2003 she changed her mind and became a civil
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Erin Coughlin Hollowell is a writer, editor, teacher, and poet who lives in Alaska. She has been most recently published in Terrain.org, Crab Creek Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Weber Studies, and Blue Earth Review and was commissioned by the University of Alaska to write poems for the play Bed Sheets. She received her MFA from the
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Inspired by the Guardian’s “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction,” we posted last month on our own writing rules . Some of my writing friends, though, objected to the very idea of using the words writers and rules in the same sentence. True, these are writers of young adult fiction – a rebellious bunch by nature.
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