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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Publisher Vered Mares with two of her authors, Kris Farmen and Martha Amore Another book launch to remember! Between Don Rearden’s musical extravaganza for The Raven’s Gift on June 27 and last night’s party for Weathered Edge (a trio of novellas by Kris Farmen, Martha Amore, and Buffy McKay), complete with roller girls, music by Jonathan Bower,
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This year’s Alaska Book Week is revving up thanks to 49 Writers member and volunteer Mary Kudenov, who is coordinating our annual celebration of Alaska’s authors and their books for her MFA practicum. She has already secured the participation of many libraries and bookstores across the state, and is now seeking authors who are available
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2013 Write-a-thon: TODAY’S THE DAY! So far we have raised $6,682, thanks to our 34 participants and their 183 supporters. It’s not too late to sign up: online registration is $10 and on-site registration will be $30. To register, just go to our FirstGiving webpage and click Join Now. All donations are greatly appreciated. If
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Tonight’s main event: First Friday, April 5, 7:00pm, Crosscurrents with visiting writer Nancy Zafris and Fairbanks author Frank Soos at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center (7th Avenue entrance), who will discuss The Short Story: Alive and Well? Check out Nancy’s blog post earlier this week about Stories That Matter. There is still one slot
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Best wishes of the season to all our blog followers! We hope your winter break with family and friends is both relaxing and restoring.As the year draws to a close, take a moment to put our January events on your calendar. On January 1, we open registration for our spring semester. Although spring might seem
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We enjoyed a great craft talk earlier this week with Kris Farmen at Great Harvest Bread. Kris impressed us with his in-depth knowledge of the historical period in which he has set his newly published novel, Turn Again—the Kenai Peninsula of the 1890s—and his description of the process and challenges of writing a novel drawn
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My new novel, Turn Again, is about to be released upon the world. This is less a time for contemplative reflection of a job well done (I hope) than an occasion to lie awake at night staring at the ceiling in the two-am dusk, full of trepidation. The process of producing a book is often
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During my college days at UAF, I was assigned to read Bruce Chatwyn’s The Songlines for one of my anthropology classes. If you haven’t read it, The Songlines is many things, not the least of which is a travelogue of the Australian outback. It is, however, best known for Chatwyn’s description of what
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Not long ago I found myself in conversation with a young friend who had expressed her desire to major in English in college, with the ultimate aim of becoming an editor and publisher. The recent upheavals in the publishing business are nothing new to writers, but this young friend of mine—let’s call her Emma—had
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