It’s been almost nine years to the day since Deb Vanasse posted the very first post on this blog. 49 Writers was not yet a nonprofit organization back then, we had not started offering classes and events, and the blog still had its original name—49 Writers, No Moose. Deb’s first sentence in that first post […]
New Digs for the Blog! Read More »
49 Writers envisions “a vibrant community of Alaskan writers coming together to inspire, create, and share.” While that vision informs all our mission-driven pursuits, it doubles as a pretty great description of this blog, too. All sorts of 49 Writers programs and events have grown over time out of the steady, consistent, and galvanizing energy
On Your Mark. Get Set. Post! Read More »
I’ve enjoyed this opportunity to blog again (and you’re not done with me yet, since March has a fifth Wednesday and I have a minor injury that will keep me sedentary for a little while, so I agreed to take it on). Thank you to 49 Writers for the change to get into blogging again,
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Why I’m Not Ashamed to Love the Internet Read More »
I started blogging in the fall of 2004. I was 25 and living in New York City, and when I realized just how easy it was to set up my own website and start publishing online, I set up a Blogger account and set to work. I imagined eventually someone would notice it and give
Maia Nolan-Partnow: To blog or not to blog? Read More »
Did you know blogs can be personality-tested? Frightening, but it’s evidently true. I found a link on a blog called Shrinking Violets Promotions to this Typealyzer.com website that crunches and scrutinizes the language style of a particular blog (at least that’s how I’m understanding it) and slaps on a Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator Label. 49 writers
If this blog were a person, it would be a firefighter! Read More »
Busy, busy. So much to do. But how about stopping by Snow City Cafe on West 4th Avenue tomorrow (Friday) evening for the AQR First Friday series? There will be an art opening at 5:30 followed at 7:00 by live music and readings from Alaska Quarterly Review’s 25th anniversary issues. Staying home instead? If you’re
and a few more event notices… Read More »
First, a headline I somehow missed. “Coast Guard rescues sinking Andromeda.” Well, OK, the headline was a little different, and the name of the boat wasn’t mentioned until later, but my first thought stumbling upon this a few months after the fact was: “See? I told you guys I gained weight this year.” And I
The Killer Hill in Anchorage Press this week Read More »
About 13 years ago, shortly after I moved to Alaska, I got a call from George Bryson, a local newspaper editor who was having trouble reaching me. I must have been working on my first or second article for “We Alaskans,” that wonderful and now-defunct Sunday magazine of the Anchorage Daily News, a place where
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