Where are you from, originally? I was born in Pasadena, California, and have lived briefly in Cambridge, IN when I was very young. Most of my life has been lived in Costa Mesa, CA, then eight years in Alaska, and six so far in New Mexico. Why did you leave Alaska and move to Santa […]
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Crosscurrents Southeast, featuring Alaskan authors Sherry Simpson (right) and Ernestine Hayes, is coming your way! Combining our popular Crosscurrents on-stage conversation with a creative writing workshop, 49 Writers is pleased to be bringing this program to Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Craig in September 2014. In Juneau, Sherry Simpson will also give a reading at Douglas Public
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Many thanks to all the writers who submitted to the Anchorage Remembers anthology! We received more than 40 stories, which the selection committee will start reviewing soon. The majority of those stories came from writers who participated in one of the four memoir workshop series offered by this official Centennial project. Stay tuned for details,
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In two days my 11th novel is due in New York. Right now it’s in a file called v3011 28 11.docx. This file occupies a mega folder called Finding Casey. Next to it are three other mega folders, each with different titles, each filled with fifty or more other files, research documents, and so on.
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When I was a kid I learned very quickly that I had a flair for writing rhyming poems, short stories and description (I’m embarrassed to say how descriptive I used to be. You’d need a rake to get through my early efforts.). Such talent got me out of homework assignments, placed in “gifted” classes where
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This post is late because I’m recovering from the Tony Hillerman Wordharvest Writer’s Conference, a two-day event filled with writers I’d never met, and many hopeful students of writing. I gave a breakfast talk, powered by coffee and fear, and apparently did all right because I got a lot of kind remarks throughout the day.
November feature author Jo-Ann Mapson and Henry in their office What I’m doing: * Strapping on my blue tights and red cape (read to the end to discover why) * Finishing up Finding Casey, a novel to be published 2012 from Bloomsbury * Packing for a library event in Sacramento this weekend * Drinking Diet
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First, a big thanks to those of you who are using a small part of your PFD checks to support 49 Writers by joining and donating.We appreciate your support of programs that benefits Alaska’s writers and books. While we’re on the subject of support, we’re enjoying a great response to our book bag fundraiser. If
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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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When I learned that J.D. Salinger had died, I didn’t quite know what to feel. His abhorrence to publishing was beyond my understanding. His desire for privacy seemed extreme, but who am I to talk? I happily spend many days inside my little pueblo house on the prairie without interacting with the world beyond. A
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