Tomorrow, Saturday, January 7 at 7pm, come out to Pioneer Park, Bear Gallery, Centennial Center, Fairbanks, for the Fairbanks Arts Association’s Literary Reading Series “Ice Fog Open Mic,” featuring Heather Warren, Donald Crocker, Michael Shaeffer, Jasmine Stokes, Raif Johnson-Kennedy–and you! The 49 Writers Synergies Series opens up 2012 with “Poemgrass: a Poet and a Banjo,” […]
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Lifelong Alaskan Hank Lentfer has written a powerfully moving memoir, Faith of Cranes: FindingHope and Family in Alaska, published this fall by The Mountaineers Books. Though his author bio describes Lentfer as “a gardener, hunter, woodworker, and musician,” he also clearly is a talented writer and a devoted conservationist, husband, and father. Lentfer’s love for
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A shout-out today to another blog stimulating conversations about an important topic: America’s wild places and species. Bill Sherwonit, a regular guest-poster here at 49 Writers, is featured author for a month (ending November 13), discussing ideas related to his book, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness. This is a true online
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We’re hearing rumors of sunshine in Anchorage this weekend, but even if it’s pouring down rain we’d love for you to stop by our WYAK Write Young Alaska booth at the Spenard Farmers Market on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 9 am to 2 pm at the corner of Spenard and 26th Ave. Our lovely teen
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Don’t mind that little snow squall in Southcentral yesterday; spring really is on the way, with summer close at hand. And no fooling, we’re celebrating with Susan Orlean’s “To Tell the Truth” Crosscurrents onstage conversation tonight, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium (free to members; $5 suggested donation for non-members). And
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Remember the 49 Writers First Friday book signing from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. tonight at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D St. in Anchorage. Deb Vanasse will be signing read-aloud titles for young readers (Under Alaska’s Midnight Sun, Totem Tale, Alaska Animal Babies) and books for older readers (Amazing Alaska, ages 7-10; A Distant Enemy,
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So much 49 Alaska Writing Center news each week: Only 10 days until the start of Bill Sherwonit’s class, “Adventures in Creative Nonfiction: The Art of the Personal Essay” (Monday nights 7 to 9:30 pm, Oct. 4 to Nov. 22) (see his recent guest post here for some ideas as to his approach) and only
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Nature writer, author and essayist Bill Sherwonit will teach an eight-week class, “Adventures in Creative-Nonfiction: The Art of the Personal Essay,” beginning Oct. 4. He promises that participants can write about anything they choose, without any reference to larger nature or what we humans like to call “the natural world.” When people ask what I
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“It is, I hope, more than an adventure novel or a study of an obsessed character. It’s the human personality under every kind of duress, physical, emotional, social and spiritual.” This from author Tanyo Ravicz, who homesteaded in Kodiak and returns every summer, on his novel A Man of His Village, winner of the Eric
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One wrote a classic and controversial book on Alaska and has another, featuring former Governor Sarah Palin, in the works. The other’s Alaskan title is drawing huge interest and acclaim overseas. Sponsored by the 49 Alaska Writing Center, both authors are slated for readings at Metro Music and Books in Anchorage in the next two
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