Thank you to author and columnist Elise Patkotak, who closed our spring Reading & Craft Talk last night at Great Harvest Bread Company by sharing her wit, wisdom—and serious side, as well as talking about her experiences with self-publishing. Thank you too to the couple dozen people who forsook the sunny spring evening outisde to […]
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Photo by Sean Mattison We are thrilled to announce that acclaimed poet Carolyn Forché will teach at this year’s Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, Sept. 5-7, 2014. Do consider joining us for an intensive, generative weekend workshop, “Writing on Tutka Bay: New Poems, New Passages.” This year’s retreat is designed for poets and memoirists who want to
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Thanks to Christine Byl for the excellent class last weekend on Lyric Tinkering: The Poem as a Tool for Prose Writers. Found poems are fun! We left with plenty of ideas for experimenting with different forms of poetry to find inspiration for our prose and felt encouraged to incorporate poetry into our writing lives in
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We are excited to offer two special events this weekend featuring Homer author Eva Saulitis, who recently published Into Great Silence, described as “a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place—and of the responsibility we have to protect them.” Tonight, Friday, March 22, 7pm, the Alaska Quarterly Review and 49 Writers
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If you’d like to propose a course for our Spring 2013 Literary Season, check out our instructor guidelines at www.49writingcenter.org /get involved /teach and fill out the easy online course proposal form by November 16. We are always looking for faculty with a strong writing and teaching background and we encourage you to submit your ideas for consideration. One
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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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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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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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Originally planned for posting tomorrow, we bumped this up because it relates to a special event taking place tonight, April 18. Thanks to Nancy Lord for the review. The University of Alaska Anchorage at the the Alaska Humanities Forum celebrate 30 years of Alaska Quarterly Review’s excellence with a special program Wednesday, April 18, at
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There’s only one thing on our mind today here at 49 Writers…WRITE-A-THON WRITE-A-THON WRITE-A-THON! Fundraising has really gained momentum in the last few days and we stand a good chance of meeting and exceeding our goal of $6,000. As Friday dawns, we have 44 participants registered for the event and several planning to register on
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