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Andromeda Romano-Lax | All the Colors We Will See: Interview with Patrice Gopo

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In a review in the Anchorage Daily News, Nancy Lord called Patrice Gopo’s new essay collection, All the Colors We Will See, “a very welcome addition to the open-hearted discussion we all should be having.” When I read the book last month, some essays made me teary, while others sparked family conversations or sent me online, […]

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Martha Amore | On the Lit Road

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Hoarse from hollering over the bar din at Alice’s Champagne Palace, I walked out to the parking lot with my anthology contributors, Teeka Ballas and Dawnell Smith. We’d just finished celebrating the Homer event on our Alaska book tour for Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry. We

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49 Writers: Guest Blogger Lucian Childs | Literary Chardonnay: Exploring Alaska’s Urban Wilds

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When people Outside think of Alaska, they imagine snow, rugged mountains, sled dog races, grizzlies, homestead cabins and “The Deadliest Catch.” That people would be living up here in an urban context would probably not occur to them. Lucian Childs But over half of us Alaskans live in cities. What makes our experience unique is

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Mary Catharine Martin | The Perils of Writing Wilderness: On Dave Eggers’s ‘Heroes of the Frontier’

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In the last few months, Alaska has been brutal to people I know. A friend who’s so knowledgeable about the wilderness he teaches college classes on the subject got mauled by a bear on a mountain outside Haines. The outdoors-savvy boyfriend of a friend disappeared while running or hiking outside Nome. A bush pilot I

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It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and you’ll feel fine)

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Are you going to be in Anchorage on Thursday, April 7? Why not join 49 Writers at 7pm at the Anchorage Museum, for a Crosscurrents event entitled “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” featuring award-winning novelists Benjamin Percy and Don Rearden. Ben Percy and Don Rearden will discuss writing fiction that tackles

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Andy Hall: Finding the Narrative

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On Thursday, Feb. 5, Andy Hall and David Stevenson meet for an onstage Crosscurrents discussion titled “Fact or Fiction: Common Challenges in Finding and Creating the Narrative.”  Join us from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Auditorium, the 7th Avenue entrance. I had no idea that I’d write “Denali’s Howl” when

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