The 2013 Contributions to Literacy in Alaska (CLIA) Awards were presented on July 16 as part of Tuesday’s Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Readings event. This year’s recipients are Alaska’s first Pulitzer Prize finalist, a village literacy advocate, and a Fairbanks historian. Honorees are novelist Eowyn Ivey of Chickaloon, author of The Snow Child; Brevig […]
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It was standing room only at Bill Streever’s Reading & Craft Talk on Wednesday night at Great Harvest Bread Company. New York Times best-selling author Streever (Cold) discussed the writing process for his just-published book Heat, from inspiration to final edits, and made a persuasive case for the endnote. We were delighted to see such
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(Originally published June 25, 2009, republished December 20, 2012) I’m loving this! Another Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference post fresh from my email inbox, with some well-condensed writing and publishing advice that all of us should (must) heed. Thanks to Kathleen Tarr, who is the Program Coordinator for the Low-Residency MFA Program at UAA. The first
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This is the fourth and last post in the series from our September guest author. Thank you, Kathy Tarr! Before Netflix and YouTube, and before I could choose from a thousand cable channels, there was public television. I tuned in to anything Bill Moyers did on PBS, and especially recall his acclaimed poetry series, and
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This is the third post in a series from our September featured guest author. When I was a teaching assistant at the University of Pittsburgh my assigned “office” on the sixth floor of the Cathedral of Learning was a dark, drab cubicle with a metal desk, a shabby lamp, and a few push pins. It
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Thanks for this second post from Kathleen Tarr, our September featured writer. The memoir Eat, Pray, Love sold an estimated zillion-billion copies. It garnered accolades from Oprah, was made into a film (not nearly as well received), and lauded as a book “rich in spiritual insight” by Anne Lamott when it appeared in 2006. After
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A hearty and spirited welcome to our September featured writer, Kathleen Tarr! The Aniakchak volcano on the Alaska Peninsula is a region visited by fewer than 15 persons per year. This summer my friend, Gary Freeburg, hired a bush pilot with a Cessna 185 on floats—a 1.5 hour flight from King Salmon—to drop him off
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This week our Writers in the Schools (WITS) program got off to a great start at Kasuun Elementary in Anchorage, where Teeka Ballas, publisher of F Magazine, taught two classes on “Feature Writing” to 6th graders. We’re told the students didn’t want to leave, and that Teeka was mobbed for autographs! The WITS program continues
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Today’s post is just a link, but a good one. Cirque’s beautiful-as-always new issue is online, with many Alaska names that will be familiar to you all, as well as new names and lots to explore across the genres. In time for the North Renaissance Arts and Science Reading Series (presented by UAA’s Creative Writing
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The community of St. John the Evangelist Orthodox Cathedral in Eagle River was founded in 1972; back then, the people there were not Orthodox Christians, and they certainly were not a church. They lived together in a big house at the end of a street called Monastery, where they began a journey toward church and
