We are excited to offer two special events this weekend featuring Homer author Eva Saulitis, who recently published Into Great Silence, described as “a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place—and of the responsibility we have to protect them.” Tonight, Friday, March 22, 7pm, the Alaska Quarterly Review and 49 Writers […]
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Today is the day! Registration is now open for our fall classes in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Palmer. We may yet add some to the schedule and will announce them as details are finalized. Check here and on the website for the latest information. Here’s a quick roundup of topics and instructors: · Thriving in the
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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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Today is the day! If you’ve been meaning to submit a fall workshop proposal, the deadline of June 1 has arrived. We know there are many potential instructors out there, in addition to the writers who have taught high quality workshops for us in past literary seasons (who we hope will considering submitting again). If
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Back in April, Eva Saulitis wrote about the seed the keynote address sows at the beginning of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, that then finds rich soil and fertilizer in all interactions and events, both scheduled in the conference program and informal. She also evoked the agony of having to choose between concurrent sessions. I’m
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The title of Rita Dove’s keynote address for the upcoming Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference is “Silence and Utterance: The Poet’s Life.” In a conference so packed with utterance – taught, chatted, overheard, recited, whispered, shouted, discussed, rhymed, rhythmic, plain-spoken, exclaimed, sung, read aloud, muttered under the breath, interjected, bantered, (and in Dove’s case, surely set
Many thanks to all who turned out for the David Vann reading at Metro Books last night. Now it’s on to Tutka Bay for our first 49 Writers Retreat! But as we all know, there’s no rest for the…well, let’s just say we’re keeping busy here at 49 Writers. Besides the awesome announcement this week
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What happened to June? I spent part of it on a tough assignment as a guest lecturer on an Inside Passage cruise (more about that next week) and another bit at the Alaska Book Festival in Fairbanks, but that doesn’t account for it all, and boy, is it gone. Hopefully you caught the four great
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Today we welcome Jeremy Pataky, a new guest blogger who has agreed to supply us with three winter blogposts in addition to this book review. Jeremy Pataky directs the Wrangell Mountains Center, and lives in Anchorage and McCarthy, Alaska. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana. We are very happy to have him
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