This week saw the last of our 2014 Resolve to Write gatherings and the first get-together of 49 Writers members and other writers in Mat-Su. Members from Houston, Wasilla, Chickaloon, and Palmer gathered at the welcoming home of Debra McKinney and Paul Morley for an informal potluck and to share of the joys and challenges
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Lael Morgan and Deb Vanasse share publishing advice What a wonderful turnout at last night’s Resolve to Write event in Anchorage, despite the dodgy weather. It was a pleasure to meet so many new members–membership has been growing in leaps and bounds with 14 new members since the first of the year (more than half
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What a wonderful turnout for Joan Naviyuk Kane’s reading on New Year’s Eve! Thank you to all the poetry lovers who chose to see the old year out in this way, who were also treated to some fine music by local musician Michael Howard. Host Olena Davis provided the perfect setting for the event, and
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Don’t miss the very last 49 Writers event of 2013: a New Year’s Eve poetry reading by Joan Naviyuk Kane on Tuesday Dec. 31, 8pm, 120 West 11th Avenue, to mark the release of Hyperboreal, her second award-winning book. Joan will read selections from this new collection after we enjoy music from Alaskan songwriter Michael Howard. Doors open at 7pm.
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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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One of my hopes for this blog is to introduce the occasional poem into our blog mix, as well as features of poets. Later this week, I’ll be running an interview with poet Arlitia Jones. Today, I’m happy to share this poem by John Straley, printed with his permission. THE ENTHUSIASTSby John Straley From: THE
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Kick off your shoes, don’t mind the dog — I may be here or I may be briefly offline. Either way, if you’re already here and have something to say about John Straley, THE BIG BOTH WAYS, mysteries, Alaska fiction, or anything else relevant to our first online book discussion, please go ahead and start
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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
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
One last reminder: on Thursday, LIVING WITH WILDNESS author Bill Sherwonit will be at Title Wave at 7 PM. On Friday, many contributors to CROSSCURRENTS NORTH will be at the Anchorage Museum: Marybeth Holleman, Anne Coray, Mike Burwell, Ann Dixon, Jo Going, Kaylene Johnson, Steve Kahn, Joan Kane, Buffy McKay, Sue Pope, Libby Roderick, Eva