AFTER THE LAST fisherman’s funeral, I decided water around here is best when it’s frozen. As I help my youngest daughters into their ice skates, I hum the old carol “In the Bleak Midwinter”: “Earth stood hard as iron, / Water like a stone.” The afternoon is so perfect; it’s like a big exhalation, throwing […]
Tom Kizzia’s long-awaited book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, is now in bookstores! You can read an excerpt here on the Anchorage Daily News website and check out Jeremy Pataky’s July 16 interview with Tom Kizzia on this blog. There are several upcoming opportunities to learn more
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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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At last a preview of our fall workshop schedule, which includes classes in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Palmer. Registration opens on August 31, when you will find full details posted on the website. We are delighted that some of your favorite instructors are returning to teach again, and that we have the opportunity to welcome some
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Registration is open, but limited to fifty, for the third annual North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, May 30-June 2, 2012. I’ll be there, as will other Alaskan writers Seth Kantner, Kim Heacox, Deb Vanasse, John Straley, Nick Jans, Dan Henry, David Hunsaker, and Jeff Brady. This year’s keynote speaker is New York-based screenwriter Scott Silver
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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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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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Book Bag Fundraiser: New titles are being added each day as new donations continue to roll in. We’re halfway to our goal of selling fifty bags. $80 for a great bag of four to five books. Please order soon and thanks if you’ve already done so! http://www.49fundraiser.blogspot.com/. Coming in less than one week: our online
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It’s your last chance to register for Revision Intensive, a six-hour course beginning tomorrow, Oct. 23. Today, Friday October 22 from 4:30pm-6:00pm there will be a discussion at the UAA Bookstore titled The Genre of Romance: Is Romance Changing? Cheryl Lovegreen, Kianna Alexander, Marcy Gentemann, Jackie Ivie and others discuss the nature of Romance books and what is
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Heather Lende reads from her new book at 49 Alaska Writing Center’s Raven Place. For my first reading in Anchorage the microphone was broken. One thing I learned from the accident I write about in Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs is to expect the worst and plan for surviving it. I
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