I have a couple buddies who are always introducing me as “Kris Farmen, the famous Alaskan writer.” I don’t mind this so much because they often do it while introducing me to attractive women. Still, it can be a little embarrassing. I’m an Alaskan, and I am a writer, but …
A Little of that Human Touch: A Guest Post by Featured Author Kris Farmen Read More »
Among the more onerous delusions that encumbers the twenty-first century is the notion that gadgetry and electronics will solve every problem we have ever faced as a species. I was born in 1975, which makes me a bit young to qualify as a curmudgeon, but I am old enough to …
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It’s free, it’s fun, and you could win a Ray Troll t-shirt. That’s our Ode to a Dead Salmon bad writing contest www.odetoadeadsalmon.blogspot.com . But the pressure is on: entries must be emailed to 49writingcenter@gmail.com by midnight on Sunday, August 7. Check out the competition and the rules at www.odetoadeadsalmon.blogspot.com and give us your best …
In comings and goings this week, we thank James McLain for his great posts on screenwriting as our featured author for June, and we welcome poet Susanna Mishler as our featured author for July. We also welcome our lovely and oh-so-helpful summer intern, Kayla Beth Moore, all the way from Tennessee. And then there’s travel …
Can we ever own the land–or does the land instead possess us? That’s the question posed in the jacket copy of Kris Farmen’s novel The Devils’ Share, published by McRoy Blackburn of Fairbanks. Set in the Wrangell-St. Elias wilderness, it’s the story of a young man named Jack who “faces the dangers hidden behind both …
Stephanie Jaeger interviews Kris Farmen: The Devil's Share Read More »
It’s official! Our totally cool and totally free “Your Alaska Online Travel ‘Zine” workshop for writers ages 12-15 will be held at the equally cool Teen Underground center at the Anchorage Loussac Library. Our thanks to the Loussac Youth Services library staff and to East Coast travel writer Jenna Schnuer for this great opportunity, as …
Create a team, join a team, register as an at-home participant from any corner in Alaska, or register and plan to come to our Snow City RAVEN WRITE-A-THON (and extremely creative afterparty) on April 8th from 5 to 11 pm. You’re a rugged Alaskan individual, so we won’t be surprised if you have your own …
“It is, I hope, more than an adventure novel or a study of an obsessed character. It’s the human personality under every kind of duress, physical, emotional, social and spiritual.” This from author Tanyo Ravicz, who homesteaded in Kodiak and returns every summer, on his novel A Man of His Village, winner of the Eric …
July 1 is a big day at 49 Writers. First, it marks the end of our members-only registration for the 49 Writers Tutka Bay Retreat featuring David Vann. This retreat is an incredible value – two nights at a lodge where rates normally run $800 per night plus four instructional sessions with one of the …
