Best wishes of the season to all our blog followers! We hope your winter break with family and friends is both relaxing and restoring.As the year draws to a close, take a moment to put our January events on your calendar. On January 1, we open registration for our spring semester. Although spring might seem […]
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Happy St. Andrew’s Day to one and all! Now that the holiday season is officially under way, here are a couple of 49 Writers event to get you in a celebratory mood: On December 3, 7:00 pm, at Great Harvest Bread Company, celebrated Alaskan chef Kirsten Dixon will give a Reading & Craft Talk entitled
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When summer arrives, we Alaskans tend to head out of the city for the weekend to make the most of our long hours of daylight. But before you finalize your plans, remember these upcoming one-time opportunities from 49 Writers: On Friday, July 20, 1:00-4:00 pm and Friday, July 27, 1:00-5:00 pm, Erin Wahl will be
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Thank you to the twenty-five wonderful writers and readers who joined us at our inaugural reading and craft talk at Great Harvest Bread Company on Tuesday, on what turned out the be the perfect spring evening. Writer Mary Albanese read from her memoir, Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon, and entertained and informed us with her story of writing the book
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Yesterday, I received my first Australia edition copies in the mail. It’s always exciting to see the paper, the font size, the inside design. In this case, there’s the additional factor that my Australia publisher, Murdoch Books, decided to change both the cover and the title, from The Detour to The Art Lover. (Yes, I’m
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Mingling with more than 9,500 other writers at the sold-out Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference on Chicago’s Lakeshore Drive is an experience to remember (not to mention bouncing from table to table at the enormous bookfair like a kid in a candy store, discovering quirky literary journals you never even knew existed).
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It’s about 11 am, and I already have several things to forgive myself for. I intended to get cracking on a novel revision by 9 am. (First draft completed on Dec 31, and two months later, I still haven’t finished even the first round of editing I intend to do before letting the project sit
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Mark your calendars now! Thanks to partnerships with Epicenter Press and Wrangell Mountains Center, we have been able to arrange for two additional Readings & Crafts Talks and an August Synergies event. On Tuesday, April 24, from 7-8:30 pm, Mary Albanese will talk about writing her memoir, Midnight Sun Arctic Moon, at Great Harvest Bread
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A big thank you to the hundred or so writers and readers who came to this week’s Crosscurrents event to enjoy the on-stage conversation between Alaskan authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Eowyn Ivey. Andromeda read from her latest novel, The Detour, released earlier in the week, and Eowyn – just back from a book release tour
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Last night at the 49 Writers Crosscurrents event, I was so gratified to hear that Snow Child author Eowyn Ivey, now at #8 on the UK Bestseller list and #27 on the New York Times Bestseller list (what must that be like? I still can’t quite imagine) admit that she is obsessed with–or shall we
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