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Adapting “The Kids from Nowhere” : Interview with Deborah Schildt

Yesterday’s post was about Hollywood coming after an Alaska writer’s novella. Now imagine the process in reverse, with a twist — a local reader (with lots of film experience) comes across an Alaska book, loves it enough to consider adapting it into a screenplay, and works hard to get it ready for Hollywood’s attention. Thanks […]

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Q & A with writer, alpinist, and new MFA Director David Stevenson

David Stevenson, who confirms that he “managed the descent of Mt. Rainier without strangling himself.” UAA’s new Dept. of Creative Writing and Literary Arts low-residency MFA got off to a strong start last year, and recently welcomed a new director, David Stevenson. He was kind enough to answer a few of Andromeda’s questions. What brings

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Authenticity, politics, “failed” novels and “odes to dead salmon”: Interview with our new Writer Laureate, Nancy Lord

Nancy Lord is the author of three collections of short stories and three literary nonfiction books, FISH CAMP: Life on an Alaskan Shore, GREEN ALASKA: Dreams from the Far Coast, and BELUGA DAYS: Tracking a White Whale’s Truths. She settled in Homer, Alaska in 1973. I have to add a personal note, that I first

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Getting out of your own way: Interview with poet & playwright Arlitia Jones

November is NaNoWriMo month, when aspiring writers are encouraged to embark upon the quest to write a novel in one month. I’ve talked about my own attempts to sneak past the internal censor, using contests and challenges like NaNoWriMo, which I think are fun and useful. Arlitia Jones takes part in a similar — and

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Interview with mystery writer and poet John Straley : “I’m still putting a lot of ravens in my books…”

Publisher’s Weekly called THE BIG BOTH WAYS “understated and vivid.” The Denver Post compared it to Steinbeck’s GRAPES OF WRATH. John Straley’s newest mystery takes place mostly in a dory traveling the Inside Passage, and before you think, you can’t row the Inside Passage in a dory, take note that Straley based the premise on

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Border-crossing Ellen Bielawski on Canadian books and publishing

What difference does a border make? A big one, unfortunately. Five years ago, Alaska-born Ellen Bielawski published a major work of creative nonfiction about the diamond mines of Canada, based on her own experiences as a negotiator in the incredibly high-stakes minerals game. Called ROGUE DIAMONDS: Northern Riches on Dene Land, it was published in

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Regional Publisher Celebrates its 50th Along With Alaska: Interview With Sara Juday of Alaska Northwest Books

Sara Juday is associate publisher for Alaska Northwest Books, an imprint of Graphic Arts Center Publishing, and the Alaska sales representative for Ingram Book Company. She has worked for Alaska Northwest Books since 1986. I was eager to hear from Sara about the future of regional publishing, the long history of Alaska Northwest Books, and

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Palin “first biographer” Amanda Coyne on why she didn’t write the book

Amanda Coyne is an Alaska freelancer, a blogger at Huffington Post, and an APU writing teacher. She has been published in Harper’s, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Anchorage Press, where she was an editor until 2005. She also happens to be a friend. So when word got out that the Palin biography by

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