Today, Friday February 4th, is First Friday! 49 Writers presents Marybeth Holleman at 5.30pm, at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D Street, Anchorage. Right after that, you can catch Marybeth again: Mike Burwell and Cirque Journal are holding a First Friday reading at MTS Gallery, 3142 Mtn View Drive, 8-10pm, with Marybeth Holleman […]
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New Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award Melinda Moustakis lives in Kalamazoo, MI, but she writes about Alaska, where she lived as a child and where she retains strong ties. Her collection Bear Down, Bear North, for which she won the Flannery O’Connor award, features stories set in Alaska. Moustakis gave us a chance to preview a few of the stories;
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Alaska Quarterly Review . has done it again. The current issue (volume 27, number 3 & 4, fall and winter 2010) includes a wide variety of some of the best contemporary writing readers will find anywhere. And, again, it includes what has become one of its trademarks—a “special feature.” This time, that feature is a
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Cleaning out, getting ready for winter? Today’s the day to drop off your nearly new donations for our 49 Writers benefit yard sale: 4-6 p.m., 415 L St (next to Snow City). We’ll be happy to email a receipt for your taxes. If you’d like an item back if it doesn’t sell, just let us
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Many if not most literary journals are predictably similar quarter to quarter; they have a certain aesthetic the reader gets to know, and contain a mix of prose and poetry—rarely art, drama, criticism, or graphic literature. Not so for the Alaska Quarterly Review, which distinguishes itself not just by its general (high) quality but with
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As a new issue of Alaska Quarterly Review hits the shelves, we caught up with editor Ron Spatz to discover how this esteemed journal has earned and maintained its reputation as one of the nation’s finest literary publications. How long have you been with AQR? I’ve been with Alaska Quarterly Review from its inception. It
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On Monday and Tuesday, March 1 and 2, 49 Writers hosts an online book club discussion of Alaskan author Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. In preparation, we asked Nancy to tell us about the book and discuss what it takes to write and publish literary nonfiction. If you have questions for Nancy, she’ll be “stopping
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There’s a tight race underway for our next 49 Writers online book club choice. It’s great to see all the interest, with lots of fans for each book. If you haven’t already voted, you can weigh in (once) at our sidebar poll before 5 p.m. Sunday. The online discussion will be March 1 and 2,
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I’ve heard that more books are sold in the last quarter of the year than in the other three quarters combined, and while the holidays must certainly play a part, I think there’s also something about fall and the prospect of winter that makes us want to hunker down an abudance of good reading material.
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If you’re looking for great summer reading that (at $6.95) won’t break the bank, be sure to check out the current issue of Alaska Quarterly Review, one of the country’s premier literary magazines. By design, AQR doesn’t focus specifically on either Alaskan writers or Alaskan themes, but the Spring/Summer issue features a compelling nonfiction piece,
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