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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A treat this morning: I gave myself some online blog-reading time to get to know Dani Shapiro, the memoirist and novelist who is leading our Sept 2-5 Tutka Bay writers’ retreat. A friend from Denver, Judith, introduced me to this blog (and to Dani’s writings in general) some time ago, but I hadn’t read Dani’s
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At the risk of piling up lots of photos in one day of posting, here are just a few shots from the incredible retreat at Tutka Bay, which — thanks to the great instruction by David Vann and the incomparable hospitality of lodge owners Kirsten and Carl Dixon and staff — went off without a
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Wait — it’s Friday. Wait again — it’s FIRST Friday. That means gallery openings and free food in downtown Anchorage — as well as our contributing literary event on the Raven Place porch, at 415 L St next to Snow City Cafe. Stop by from 6 to 8 p.m. to meet Sherry Eckrich of the
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We’re on the homestretch for registration for the writing retreat with acclaimed author David Vann at Tutka Bay Lodge. Only three of 17 spots remain. Decision time! Last Friday, we shared the news that our 415 L. Street facility is being sold and we’ll be moving on Nov. 1. That’s all we knew a week
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Tutka Bay sunset, May 2010 It might be only two weeks past solstice, but the Fourth of July always feels like the apex of summer. With winter pressing its inevitable approach, I doubt I’m the only one who eschewed hitting the highway this weekend for getting work done. At the cabin, we needed new valves
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While you’re enjoying your summer — and we hope you are! — 49 Writers is busy planning for a very literary fall, including the Tutka Bay Lodge retreat that we keep telling you about on our right sidebar. The registration is now officially open to the public, whether or not you are a writing center
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July 1 is a big day at 49 Writers. First, it marks the end of our members-only registration for the 49 Writers Tutka Bay Retreat featuring David Vann. This retreat is an incredible value – two nights at a lodge where rates normally run $800 per night plus four instructional sessions with one of the
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