Brendan Jones, author of The Alaskan Laundry, penned four original posts for us in May as our Featured Author. Low and behold, though, this fine month includes five Tuesdays. This week we re-repost his recent Q&A with Deborah Kalb, which originally appeared here. Look forward to next month’s weekly guest posts from author Miranda Weiss. […]
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A few weeks back a friend went out on a kayak and didn’t return. The fire department found his boat in a bed of kelp. He had gone out at ten in the evening in the wind and rain. I was in Wrangell when it happened. I confirmed his photo for the radio station. Painted
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Back in Sitka, taking a breath with the family before traveling around Alaska to tour with the book, a question keeps coming back: do we as writers take on certain responsibilities as a result of the act of creation? And if so, how to fulfill these responsibilities? For starters, I think what we’re doing as
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The incongruous thing about a book tour is you’ve spent so much time alone working on this loving, faithful animal, and suddenly: it’s in the wild on a table in Barnes & Noble. And you’re in front of 50 people for a reading. My debut novel The Alaskan Laundry released April 26th. On the
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Thank you to everyone who turned out for the Wednesday Crosscurrents event featuring Sherry Simpson and Christine Byl—we were treated to a fascinating conversation on the topic of Essaying Alaska: Beyond Images of the Last Frontier and what it means to write authentically about this place we love and call home. Special thanks to our
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 6-10:30pm. It’s Write-a-thon time! Save the date and get the details here. This is our premiere fundraising event of the year and a great way to show your support for the literary arts in Alaska, while working on your own contribution to the state’s growing body of literature! It was such a treat
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The trope I heard over and over again this past weekend in Seattle, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference – fifteen thousand writers under one roof, can you imagine? – was “it’s so nice to be back with my tribe.” Fair enough. You’ve slaved away for the rest of the year in
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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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There’s still time to register for Christine Byl’s workshop tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 15, 9am-1pm, “Lyric Tinkering: The Poem as a Tool for Prose Writers. Click here for more details and to register. In this class, you’ll explore the poem not as a final product but as a process and a tool, one that can sharpen,
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