WINTER WORDS 2023 Celebrate the winter writing season, enjoy afternoon tea, win fabulous door prizes, and support 49 Writers! Join us for the annual Winter Words fundraising event, which this year features Jessica Cherry, co-editor, and Corinna Cook, Roman Dial, and Bill Sherwonit, contributors, to Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska, which was […]
Alaska has a new anthology to enjoy this winter: Wheels on Ice, edited by Jessica Cherry and the late Frank Soos. The story behind this publication is bittersweet, given that Soos, a former Alaska Writer Laureate, long-time teacher and 49 Writers board member, died in a solo cycling accident before the book could be completed.
ANCHORAGE | 49 Writers presents, The Situation and the Story with Frank Soos February 8, 9, 10, 2019 This class has three consecutive sessions (one hour lunch break on Saturday) Anchorage Community House, 3502 Spenard Road, 99503 Members or full time students: $185 | General enrollment: $205 Cap: 12 | All experience levels | Registration: http://49writers.web907.com/soos19 One of
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One of the things I often tell writers regardless of whether they are poets, fiction or nonfiction writers is that we must inhabit our form, live within it to understand what we can and can’t do. Here’s a little example: When I was in graduate school, one of my professors (my favorite professor, Ben Kimpel,
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One of my Christmas gifts from a good friend was a box of Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils (complete with extra erasers), the model I am assured has been the writing tool of choice for “many Oscar, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize winners throughout the 20th Century.” Who knew it was only my choice of writing implement that
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The reality of a Fairbanks winter is setting in. It’s cold, around zero most every day this week at our house, and around minus 20 in town. There’s comfort in this hard windless cold, so solid a person feels he can lean against it. Not so the dark. Today there are fewer than four hours
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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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It’s been snowing a lot in Fairbanks these past few days. Which means I’ve been scooping a lot. That’s how we clear our driveway of snow, the scoop being mostly made of a galvanized sheet of steel, fabricated right in the shop of one of the oldest businesses in Fairbanks, Wilbur Brothers Sheet Metal. It
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Frank Soos teaches the Art of the Essay We were delighted by the announcement that Frank Soos has been selected to serve as the next Alaska Writer Laureate. Frank has worked with many of our writers over the last year, helping them to to develop their work and ‘the art of the essay.’ He has
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Thoughtful conversation from Sherry Simpson & Ernestine Hayes and engaged audiences in each community Thank you to the many partners, writers, and readers who contributed to the success of our recent Crosscurrents Southeast program in Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Craig. More than 200 people participated in nine community events, and it was wonderful to meet
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