Watch the recording of this event: CROSSCURRENTS ANCHORAGE: BRIAN CASTNER Moderated by Matt Komatsu Recorded: Saturday April 16, 2022 7 PM-8:30 PM The Anchorage Museum, 625 C Street Anchorage, Alaska Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. His most recent book is Stampede, a new history […]
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CROSSCURRENTS ANCHORAGE: BRIAN CASTNER Moderated by Matt Komatsu Saturday April 16, 2022 7 PM-8:30 PM The Anchorage Museum, 625 C Street Anchorage, Alaska Mark your calendars and join us for a Crosscurrents conversation with Brian Castner and Matt Komatsu. Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq
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CROSSCURRENTS FAIRBANKS: BRIAN CASTNER Moderated by Chris Miles Thursday April 14, 2022 7 PM-8:30 PM Centennial Center Exhibit Hall, Pioneer Park Fairbanks, Alaska Register for the event HERE. Mark your calendars and join us for a Crosscurrents conversation with Brian Castner and Chris Miles. Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer,
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DANGER CLOSE MEMOIR WORKSHOP WITH AUTHOR BRIAN CASTNER Saturday, April 16, 2022 1 PM – 4 PM AKDT The Nave, 3502 Spenard Road, Anchorage $55 Members | $70 Non-Members Attention civilian, veteran, and veteran-connected writers: What do you need to take your writing to the next level? Brian Castner, the author of the military memoir
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Editor’s Note: Danger Close Alaska 2020 takes place Saturday, March 7 from 11 AM–3 PM at the Anchorage Community House. Danger Close is open to the public. Registration is just $10 for members of the military, active duty, retired, reserve, and families. If you’ve participated in any of our four previous Danger Close seasons, then
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Welcome to August! While you’re soaking up the last of summer’s sun, you can be thinking ahead to what writing adventures you might have this fall. Soon we’ll be announcing our fall lineup of classes and craft talks. Meanwhile, we have Danger Close on August 22, and the ninth annual Tutka Bay Writer’s Retreat in
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SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | July-Sept, 2018 | Danger Close Alaska: programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. One night per month for six consecutive months (four remaining), Danger Close will focus on food, drink, discussion, and writing on different topics, shared between veterans and civilians. See event details and register on 49
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Someone told me the other day that he and his friends used to say, “If summer is on a Saturday this year, we should have a barbecue!” He was from Wyoming, but it seemed like a very Alaskan sentiment too. We race around taking in as much daylight and good weather as we can, and
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Have you ever had an idea for something, but you weren’t sure you knew how to pull it off? Of course you have. You’re a writer. Everything we do begins with a blank slate: an empty bar napkin, an un-scribbled scrap of paper, a blank computer screen. And yet you do. It begins with three
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