The final post in this month’s series from guest author John Straley. I would like to make something clear from the last post. It takes me four times as long to revise something as it does to write the draft. That’s how I figure out how long to spend working during the revising stage. The …
Here is the third post from July guest author John Straley. I once heard Robert Hass, before he was the Poet Laureate of the United States, say “Being a writer would be great, if it wasn’t for all the damn paperwork.” So we have inevitably come to writing the cursed book. In the earlier blog entries …
Here is the second post from July guest author John Straley. As he told us in his first post, “I thought I would write about craft questions I have never taught or lectured on before…and I hope to respond to questions that may come in over the month and enter into a dialogue with any …
John Straley I thought I would write about craft questions I have never taught or lectured on before. I’m going to keep my posts short and I hope to respond to questions that may come in over the month of July and enter into a dialogue with any of you who are reading these posts. …
Thank you to author and columnist Elise Patkotak, who closed our spring Reading & Craft Talk last night at Great Harvest Bread Company by sharing her wit, wisdom—and serious side, as well as talking about her experiences with self-publishing. Thank you too to the couple dozen people who forsook the sunny spring evening outisde to …
Photo courtesy of Christina Whiting First of all, we’d like to express our appreciation to everyone who participated in last Friday’s Write-a-thon – a great time was had by all at Snow City Café as you created new work and raised money for 49 Writers! We’ll have a full report for you next week. Special thanks go to …
What a week it has been! Multiple literary events to launch our spring season and a multitude of literary friends turning out for classes and author readings. It feels so good to reconnect with our community. First thanks go to the warm and wonderful Camille Dungy for her excellent poetry class, “How to Write a …
Well-known as a novelist, John Straley is also a poet; “The Gift,” he says, is an old poem from his cowboy days. Don’t miss his craft talk, “Lessons from a Life of Crime,” Thursday night, Feb. 6, from 7:00-8:30 pm at the Great Harvest Bread Company in Anchorage. THE GIFT Pulling a pack string up the …
This week we reached a new milestone: our current membership is more than double what it was this time last year! Thank you to the 28 new members who have joined since the beginning of 2014, who hail from not only Anchorage but also Douglas, Juneau, Skagway, and Wasilla. We’re just a few short of …
John Straley has been a writer and a criminal defense investigator in Alaska for thirty years. In a 49 Writers workshop on Feb. 6 from 1 – 4 pm, he will talk about the practical talents it takes to do both kinds of work and how he has disciplined his life to be able to complete long …
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