We enjoyed a great craft talk earlier this week with Kris Farmen at Great Harvest Bread. Kris impressed us with his in-depth knowledge of the historical period in which he has set his newly published novel, Turn Again—the Kenai Peninsula of the 1890s—and his description of the process and challenges of writing a novel drawn […]
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Brendan reads his poem “My Grandma” It was wonderful to see such a good turnout of young writers and their families at last Friday’s Write Young Alaska (WYAK) anthology reading. A huge thank you to Peggy Brannon of Kasuun Elementary who encouraged so many of her former students to attend. Works read included poems and
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We were delighted to see so many turn out on a sunny August evening for our Synergies event last Friday. We were treated to a wonderful evening of poetry, prose, and music with visiting writer Dan-Beachy Quick and Alaska musician Emily Kurn, who was accompanied by Lu-Anne Haukaas Lopez and eve read some of her
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Debby Dahl Edwardson’s latest young adult novel is a Junior Literary Guild selection Thirty-five years ago, when I first came to Alaska, I fancied myself a poet. I was also dabbling with short stories and thinking–although daunted by the thought–of novels. I was living in an old log cabin outside Fairbanks on the corner of
Oct. 8-15: In honor of Alaska Book Week, we’re giving away a free book each day. Just visit our Alaska Book Week site or our facebook page and comment on the question for the day, and your name will be entered in a drawing for that day’s book.
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Given that our roots here at 49 Writers are pretty grassy, it likely surprises no one that we embarked on a “field of dreams” project. We thought it would be a great idea if someone set aside a whole week to celebrate Alaska books, and we decided it might as well be us. By us,
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The other night I pitched the idea to my book club: Could we read an Alaska book for our next meeting, in October? They didn’t yet know, and perhaps some of our readers don’t either, but October will usher in our very first Alaska Book Week, a time to celebrate books by Alaskans or about
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It’s free, it’s fun, and you could win a Ray Troll t-shirt. That’s our Ode to a Dead Salmon bad writing contest www.odetoadeadsalmon.blogspot.com . But the pressure is on: entries must be emailed to 49writingcenter@gmail.com by midnight on Sunday, August 7. Check out the competition and the rules at www.odetoadeadsalmon.blogspot.com and give us your best
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