Someone told me the other day that he and his friends used to say, “If summer is on a Saturday this year, we should have a barbecue!” He was from Wyoming, but it seemed like a very Alaskan sentiment too. We race around taking in as much daylight and good weather as we can, and […]
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Guest Blogger Marian Call will be performing tonight, Sunday June 10, at Rainy Retreat books in Juneau with author Nicole Dieker. Some city names spark stars in the eyes any young musician: Nashville. Austin. Seattle. Atlanta. It’s natural for artists to gather in hubs; poets go to New England, filmmakers go to Los Angeles, found
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As the editor of “The Billfold,” I get a lot of emails from writers that include some variation of “This is my first pitch.” Sometimes they apologize in advance for the mistakes they’re sure they’ve made; other times they ask me for feedback. No matter how they phrase it, this declaration gets in the way
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Ed note: 49 Writers is pleased to be a small sponsor of this tiny comic-con. Read on to hear from Alaska Robotics owner, Pat Race about opportunities to and study with the many authors, artists, writers, and songwriters that the conference draws to Juneau. See you there! Juneau’s tiny-sized comic convention takes place this Saturday at the
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Lots of good reasons could justify short wintertime trips to Juneau, but I felt lucky that poetry was the reason behind last week’s trip. Julie Hungiville LeMay and I were invited by Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) to serve as judges for this year’s Alaska Statewide Poetry Out Loud Competition there, a fun
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Isn’t it funny how the experiences that drive you to write also seem to be the toughest to get down? At least, in a way that’s satisfying, that captures the essence, that feels right. Those key compelling moments when life could have gone either way, that were hard or dangerous, that shock the adrenaline, that
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Jeremy Pataky Southeast Alaska is rainforest country, where water substantiates the world—even trees, there, are shown to contain molecules from out at sea delivered inland in salmon. Its lush fecundity translates into a literary watershed, too—many great writers and scholars hail from Gustavus, Haines, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and points between. Lately, the roster of 49
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