Anchorage, AK – Rasmuson Foundation has named artist Gertrude Svarny of Unalaska its 2017 Distinguished Artist. The award recognizes one Alaska artist annually for a lifetime of creative excellence and contributions to arts and culture in the State. It is accompanied by a $40,000 award that she can use to further immerse herself in the exploration
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I don’t need to reiterate how language is tied to thought. This is a fundamental tenet of linguistics, isn’t it? That what one can think is bound by what one can put into words. And, on the flip side, that thought is set free by language. As I write, I’m not sure whether this is
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Lately I’ve been feeling I can only write at 5:30 in the morning. Well, sometimes on these long summer days when we stay up with the sun late into the evening and the rest of the house sleeps until 8:00, I hit the snooze and don’t get out of bed until closer to 6. But
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When Tide, Feather, Snow, my natural history memoir, came out in 2009, I thought there could be no greater thrill than to have strangers from all over the country contact me about the relationships they had with my book—relationships that had nothing to do with me. Then, seven months later, my first daughter was born.
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The morning of the memorial celebration and potluck for Eva Saulitis, the beloved Alaskan writer, biologist, and writing teacher who died of cancer in January at the age of 52, I imagined she’d be there signing copies of her last book—printed just before her death—Becoming Earth. I pictured her sitting at a folding table on
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This is your final registration reminder for 49 Writers workshops beginning in the next 10 days: Building an Online Platform as a Writer (Lorena Knapp) on Saturday, October 27; Writing Wrongs (Creative Nonfiction with Jonathan Bower) on Saturday, November 3 and 10; Character: Fiction’s Master Key (Andromeda Romano-Lax) on November 6, 13 & 20); and,
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Alaska Book Week display at Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this year’s Alaska Book Week—participants came from all over the state, including Barrow, Bethel, Chugiak, Eagle River, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Nenana, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, and Wasilla, and even from Outside (Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, and
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We had a wonderful turnout last week for our first 49 Writers literary salon of the season—a great opportunity for our members to gather, get to know or reconnect with one other, and share some of their work. These gatherings are hosted in a member’s home and invitations go out to current members only due
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Author Kaylene Johnson, a long-time Alaskan who lives in Eagle River, Alaska, will be featured at the 49 Writers First Friday book signing tonight at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D. St. in Anchorage from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. She has written several books about Alaska including A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My
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The other day, a street sign I’m sure I’ve read dozens of times before stopped me in my tracks: “Buckle up. Somebody needs you!” I was on one of my now-frequent multi-tasking hikes across Homer: pushing my five-month-old daughter in her SUV-style jogging stroller (complete with shocks, oversized pneumatic tires, storm cover, and cargo hold),
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