The essay is, I think, the messiest of forms. Which might be why I like it so much. There are no set rules for length or structure, certainly not for content. In her introduction to the very first Best American Essays collection (that would be in 1986), Elizabeth Hardwick wrote that an essay “at least […]
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Earlier this month, on returning home from a trip to Denali National Park, I got some exciting news: one of my stories, “Of Waxwings and Goshawks and Standing Up to Power,” has been named a “Notable Essay” in this year’s Best American Essays anthology (joining two other 2014 Alaskan notables, Eva Saulitis and David Stevenson).
Sherry Simpson On Wednesday, Mar. 12, 7 pm at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center (W. 7th Avenue entrance), local author Sherry Simpson (Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska) joins Healy writer Christine Byl (Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods) for an onstage conversation about “Essaying Alaska: Beyond Images of the Last Frontier.” This
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Nature writer, author and essayist Bill Sherwonit will teach an eight-week class, “Adventures in Creative-Nonfiction: The Art of the Personal Essay,” beginning Oct. 4. He promises that participants can write about anything they choose, without any reference to larger nature or what we humans like to call “the natural world.” When people ask what I
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