June is a great month for Alaska’s writers. The North Words Writers Symposium wrapped up in grand style, with talk of it doing a stint at Denali next year, and the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference is about to get underway. In Anchorage, we’re looking forward to meeting nationally-acclaimed author Bruce Hale, who’s teaching “Funny Business: […]
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Skagway, site of this year’s North Words Writers Symposium You have a fine idea for a book, a nonfiction narrative that weaves the riveting stories of three men whose lives intersected when they reinvented themselves during the Klondike Gold Rush. Recording their journeys, the three left notes, letters, and journals. There’s only one tiny problem:
Recounting her childhood as the daughter of a gambler and a stripper, “amid the denizens of Anchorage‘s nightlife–pimps, con men, gamblers, prostitutes, heroin addicts,” Kim Rich’s acclaimed memoir Johnny’s Girl was made into a television movie. Though Rich now lives in Texas, she returns to Alaska this summer for a retreat weekend of writing, teaching,
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Thanks to all who turned out last Friday night for our Crosscurrents event featuring Susan Orlean in an onstage conversation with Julia O’Malley. We counted over 170 people in attendance. Thanks are in order as well to our event co-sponsors, Copper Whale Inn and ATIA; and especially to the Alaska Press Club, which was responsible
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I am starting this, my final blog for the month of April, at midnight. I don’t normally write at night, but I just returned from a late night run to Wal-Mart and thought I’d give this a try. I do, on occasion, shop late at night. All the parents know why. I can go alone.
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The spring has left me struggling to preserve a sense of magic in our house. Two events caused the crisis: My daughter Mary lost yet another tooth, and Easter came. Now seven, my girls are getting smarter and wiser about the broader world. This is both a good thing and a loss. With that awareness
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I have been told I should start a blog. See above title to know why I haven’t so far: Domestic bliss. Or not. As I mentioned in my earlier blog, I have three seven year-old daughters. That means I don’t have much of a life, outside of being mom to three seven year-old daughters. Did
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Kim M. Rich is the author of the memoir Johnny’s Girl (Alaska Northwest Books, 1999). The book chronicles her growing up in Alaska’s underworld with her father, a professional gambler, who was murdered when Kim was 15. In 1995, Hallmark Entertainment adapted the story into a movie starring Treat Williams. In 1997, Perseverance Theater in
Hang on to your laptops and pens, folks. I let you off easy last week, but today we’ve got lots to share. First off, thanks for the great response to our 49 Writers workshop “Power Writing: Description that Works,” April 24 and May 1 the Kaladi Brothers on Brayton. We’ve filled all ten spots, but
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