Big Changes are afoot at Cirque – A literary journal for the North Pacific Rim. We are pleased to share these latest updates straight from current editors Mike Burwell & Sandra Kleven, cirquejournal@yahoo.com A New Editor: Between Issue #5 (Winter Solstice December 2011) and Issue #6 (Summer Solstice, June 2012) many changes have come down in the […]
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Registration is open for these 49 Writing Center March courses: Graphic Novel with Lee Post starts March 7th. Alaskan Screenwriting 101 with Don Rearden starts March 15th. A two-hour clinic, Publishing in the Literary Marketplace with Ronald Spatz, takes place March 26. Also: 49 Writers and the 49 Alaska Writing Center are asking writers, readers,
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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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Welcome! You’re in the right place to ask questions from Peggy Shumaker, our Writer Laureate; Vivian Prescott, who divides her time between Sitka and Puerto Rico, and is founder of an organization called “Raven’s Blanket” that is sponsoring a new poetry prize; Zack Rogow, who is not only a prolific poet, but also an award-winning
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Please tell your literary/foodie friends about our next-up class: Stirring Words with Kirsten Dixon, starting Jan. 22. Registration for all of our classes is open now. 49 Writers members and volunteers are invited to an Anchorage potluck gathering to share their writing resolutions for 2011 and to visit with writers Don Rearden and Bill Streever
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Our fundraiser book bags (five books, logo tote, $80) will continue to be on sale through the holidays, and the next two people who order will receive, as part of their surprise mix of books, one guaranteed addition: The Winterlake Lodge cookbook by Alaska chef Kirsten Dixon, signed. If that sounds like a great book to keep or help
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Congratulations to Nancy Lord, who has been selected as this year’s Denali National Park’s Writer in Residence. Nancy will be the Park’s guest during her stay at the East Fork Cabin. John Morgan, last year’s Writer in Residence, was the first in the new program; check out our archives to read about his experience there. And look for
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Have you checked out the inaugural issue of Cirque? First, there is substantial content by a veritable who’s-who list that includes nonfiction by Jeff Fair, Sandra Kleven, Bill Sherwonit; plays by Nancy Lord and Peter Porco; poetry by the recently departed Marjorie Kowalski Cole, plus Ann Dixon, Ernestine Hayes, Cinthia Ritchie … and that’s just
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