Don’t miss the early bird deadline of May 15 for this year’s Tutka Bay Writers Retreat with award-winning author Pam Houston, September 7-9. If you have been planning to register, now is the time! Pam, who has embarked on an extensive book tour for her new novel Contents May Have Shifted, tells us she is […]
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We’ve all been in writing classes or conferences where some brash, garrulous novice insists on putting the cart before the horse. Let’s call him Bob. Bob has spit out one or several or a dozen unrevised manuscripts, and may be talking about a series, and maybe even a movie spin-off, before he has learned how
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Eowyn’s Ivey The Snow Child and Andromeda Romano-Lax’s The Spanish Bow: Alaska books that have found their way into foreign markets. Why might I need an agent? Because the book market becomes more complicated every day, and various rights—from electronic to foreign—need to be handled with care. I’ll be teaching a three-hour clinic, called “Agents:
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Need a break from the holiday madness? Treat yourself to an evening at Café Felix, adjacent to Metro Books, where on Thursday, December 8 from 7-8:30 pm, our own Don Rearden will be featured in an informal talk on our collective literary obsession. Rearden, whose films have aired on TMC and Showtime, will share how
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49 Writers Board President Don Rearden will be featured in a free 49 Writers Reading and Craft talk Dec. 8 at 7 pm Cafe Felix at Metro Books Why 49 Writers? A couple years ago, if you asked me about the literary community of Alaska I would have answered with my own question, “What community?” Don’t get
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49 Writers, 49 Reasons to become our Executive Director. But time’s running out: applications are due November 22. For a full job description and information on how to apply, go to http://www.49writingcenter.org and look for the downloadable .pdf document toward the bottom of the home page. Wherever we go, we hear about young writers – kids and
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The other night I pitched the idea to my book club: Could we read an Alaska book for our next meeting, in October? They didn’t yet know, and perhaps some of our readers don’t either, but October will usher in our very first Alaska Book Week, a time to celebrate books by Alaskans or about
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In comings and goings this week, we thank James McLain for his great posts on screenwriting as our featured author for June, and we welcome poet Susanna Mishler as our featured author for July. We also welcome our lovely and oh-so-helpful summer intern, Kayla Beth Moore, all the way from Tennessee. And then there’s travel
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It’s happened again: 49 Writers director Deb Vanasse has been asked to speak on the subject of humor. This time it’s at the North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, in session this week, and she’s better prepared than the first time, when she had to address a national conference as a newly minted author with
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Don’t mind that little snow squall in Southcentral yesterday; spring really is on the way, with summer close at hand. And no fooling, we’re celebrating with Susan Orlean’s “To Tell the Truth” Crosscurrents onstage conversation tonight, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium (free to members; $5 suggested donation for non-members). And
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