When the Rasmuson Foundation announces its annual Individual Artist Awards, it’s always exciting to see Alaska’s creative community acknowledged and supported in this way. Attendees at the awards reception earlier this week included trustees of the Western States Arts Federation, who were in town for a meeting. I happened to be standing next to the […]
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It was wonderful to see such a great turnout for both Debra Gwartney events on Monday. Twenty writers attended her brown bag lunch seminar on Publishing Nonfiction, and thirty of us gathered for the evening talk on Pitfalls of the Memoir. Debra was generous of her time and knowledge during her brief stay in Anchorage,
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We’re happy to report a successful Crosscurrents in Kodiak last weekend, with good attendance at all three events featuring Homer author Eva Saulitis (despite beautiful weather and whale watching opportunities). We are immensely grateful to our wonderful local partners, Kodiak College and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, and to local author Sara Loewen for not
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We are proud to announce another Crosscurrents literary weekend, coming up April 28 and 29 in Kodiak. Thanks to support from the Alaska Humanities Forum and our amazing local partners, Kodiak College and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, 49 Writers is bringing Eva Saulitis (Into Great Silence) to Kodiak for a series of events that
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The results are in! This year’s Write-a-thon brought in $7,732 for 49 Writers programming – a fantastic effort by a group of 28 dedicated fundraisers, many of whom joined us at Snow City Café last Friday. It was wonderful to see a good turnout from the Teen Underground Writing Society too. Altogether, 51 writers registered
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How can it be February already? The year is racing by. But that’s because so much good stuff is happening in the literary realm. Yesterday 49 Writers was privileged to provide judges for the Anchorage School District round of Poetry Out Loud 2013. A wonderful way to close the door on January. Thanks go to
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The faculty at this year’s Kachemak Bay Writers Conference wasted no time in challenging participants with the big questions. At the opening dinner keynote speaker Barry Lopez asked us to consider the role of a writer in “an imperiled world,” as he characterized the condition of our planet, given the current political, economic, and environmental
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