These days it seems there are Alaska author successes to report every week, a most encouraging trend that we hope is here to stay. Read Michael Dirda’s glowing review of Don Rearden’s The Raven’s Gift in Wednesday’s Washington Post, and then stop by the DeBarr Costco tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 17, 1-3pm to buy a copy or just […]
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Hard to believe, but our 49 Writers Fall 2011 Literary Season is winding down. We’ll celebrate the great work of our students and others at a 49 Writers Open Mic on Thursday, November 10, 7-9 pm at the 49 Writers’ Cafe at Out North Contemporary Art House at 3800 De Barr Road in Anchorage. If you are
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We’re writing another chapter in the most well-known and long-standing environmental battle in Alaska: the fight over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a part of the world that looms large in my imagination, but not through personal, on-the-ground experience. I know the Arctic Refuge only through literature, most of it nonfiction. When talk
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I’ve always had a secret desire to be a forest ranger. Maybe it was reading about Edward Abbey out there in his fire tower; maybe it was listening to fireside chats on family camping trips in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but it seems like such a divine life, spending your days out on
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Marybeth Holleman is author of Heart of the Sound and co-editor of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment. Her essays, articles, and poems have been published in a wide range of journals, magazines, and anthologies. She has taught creative writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and has led intensive writing workshops across the state.
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Today, Friday February 4th, is First Friday! 49 Writers presents Marybeth Holleman at 5.30pm, at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D Street, Anchorage. Right after that, you can catch Marybeth again: Mike Burwell and Cirque Journal are holding a First Friday reading at MTS Gallery, 3142 Mtn View Drive, 8-10pm, with Marybeth Holleman
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Our first Crosscurrents Event, “Environmental Writing & Activism,” was a big success: stimulating conversation, 59 attendees, many books sold and new friends made. Thanks to our authors and co-sponsors. Audio content will be available as a web extra on the KSKA website soon; we’ll let you know when it’s up. The next Crosscurrents Event will
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Thanks to January featured author Marybeth Holleman for this final guest-post. Lately I’ve been puppy-sitting Ivy, a three-month old Siberian Husky-Labrador mix. God, is she cute, and God, is she crazy-wild. The only way to keep her from tearing up my houseplants and irritating my two older dogs is for my husband to walk all
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Tomorrow night, Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 pm, we’re excited to present our first CROSSCURRENTS event: an onstage discussion, “Environmental Writing and Activism,” with Nancy Lord, Marybeth Holleman, and Charles Wohlforth, at Out North Theater. Our thanks to Cook Inletkeeper, the Alaska Center for the Environment, and the Prince William Sound Science Center for co-sponsoring
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49 Writers is spreading its wings beyond the Anchorage area! Last Tuesday’s ‘Resolve To Write’ event in Homer, co-ordinated by Miranda Weiss, had a great attendance of around 15. Writers of all stripes connected over burger and brew at Alice’s Champagne Palace, received an insider preview and some background stories about Nancy Lord’s new book,
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