Concluding thoughts from our guest-poster. Thanks Barry! When I first came North two decades ago, I met the editors of a now defunct magazine called Dannzha, which aspired to be a Tundra Times for the Yukon but which was doomed by a lack of funds and a tiny market to a short life. But in […]
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Barry Zellen, our featured author last month, shares this final post with us, in two parts. In my last post I started to describe some new work that dives into the ambiguous and haunting imaginations of philosophers of the state of nature, that allegorical, proto-historical realm of pre-history that describes mankind before the erection of
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Hang on to your laptops and pens, folks. I let you off easy last week, but today we’ve got lots to share. First off, thanks for the great response to our 49 Writers workshop “Power Writing: Description that Works,” April 24 and May 1 the Kaladi Brothers on Brayton. We’ve filled all ten spots, but
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Concluding thoughts from our March featured author, Barry Zellen. During the last few years, I published what started out as a trilogy on how the Arctic has transformed and modernized, as the two worlds collided: the modern, globalizing world, and the traditional, indigenous world. Along the Arctic coastal plain, and Canada’s high northern archipelago, this
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Our second post in a three-part series from March featured author Barry Zellen. Many years ago, I lived in Inuvik, wearing the hat of a small town journalist, with the coolest job in the world, publishing a bilingual newspaper serving the Inuvialuit villages of the Western Arctic, with half the page in English and the
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A late but enthusiastic welcome to our March featured writer, Barry Zellen, who expected to be our April writer but is jumping on board quickly with stories to tell and thoughts to share. His posts will continue next week. I just looked at my calendar and saw that April was just a few days away,
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We’ve had a great response to our 49 Writers call for featured authors for 2010, and there’s still time to toss your name in the mix. It’s a fine way to connect with other writers and get the word out about what you’ve been doing. Email me on or before December 15 at debv@gci.net to
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Have you weighed in on the MFA question this week? We’d love to hear from writers who’ve earned MFAs, who are working on MFAs, or who are wondering if they should pursue MFAs. Another popular post this week was part two of featured author Ken Waldman’s “In Defense of Self-Promotion.” Ken’s post along with Mark
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