Many if not most literary journals are predictably similar quarter to quarter; they have a certain aesthetic the reader gets to know, and contain a mix of prose and poetry—rarely art, drama, criticism, or graphic literature. Not so for the Alaska Quarterly Review, which distinguishes itself not just by its general (high) quality but with […]
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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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Thanks to all who participated in our 49 Writers online book club discussion this week of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. We enjoyed an engaging dialogue with one another and with the author. Looking ahead, the next online book club discussion will feature David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide. Thanks also to all the children’s
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Today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday), we’ve got an open forum for discussion of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. Leave your comments and/or questions using the comment feature, tagged with either your Google ID, a name of your choosing, or Anonymous. If you have questions or comments for the author, start them with “Nancy.” Stop
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Above: Agent Kendra Marcus of Bookstop Literary will be in Fairbanks on Monday, March 1 for a FREE session with writers. RSVP requested. Details below. That old expression of March coming in like a lion resonates with our writing community this year. March 1 is the opening day of our 49 Writers online book club
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On Monday and Tuesday, March 1 and 2, 49 Writers hosts an online book club discussion of Alaskan author Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. In preparation, we asked Nancy to tell us about the book and discuss what it takes to write and publish literary nonfiction. If you have questions for Nancy, she’ll be “stopping
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There’s still time to pick up a copy of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild and join in our 49 Writers online book club discussion on March 1 and 2. Watch for an interview with Nancy next week. Looking ahead, David Vann, whose Legend of a Suicide we’ll be discussing (with input from the author) here
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The detailed program for this June’s (ninth annual!) Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference is now posted on the website, so check it out. It’s not too early to start making plans to come to Homer June 11-15 for your “fix” of sun-filled writing fellowship. Here are a few highlights of what’s to come: Keynoter The featured
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While assembling an interview with Alaska State Writer Laureate Nancy Lord, author of our next 49 Writers online book club selection Rock, Water, Wild, I got to wondering: What has become of some of our former writer laureates? According to the Alaska State Council on the Arts website, the Alaska State Writer Laureate is an
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In December, The Northern Review , a journal published by Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, recently produced a special literature issue for fall 2009. (The journal normally deals with more scholarly subjects.) The guest editor is Eric Heyne, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the issue was published with support from both the
