Thanks to Peggy Shumaker, our September featured author. Just before dawn, about a hundred Canada geese gather on the riverbank under our window. Everyone haggles at once, in screeks and gronks. Then as light penetrates fog lifting off the Chena, winged ones gather, rise in unison, circle, circle, circle, and depart. The great straggling dotted …
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We’re on the homestretch for registration for the writing retreat with acclaimed author David Vann at Tutka Bay Lodge. Only three of 17 spots remain. Decision time! Last Friday, we shared the news that our 415 L. Street facility is being sold and we’ll be moving on Nov. 1. That’s all we knew a week …
Hang on to your laptops and pens, folks. I let you off easy last week, but today we’ve got lots to share. First off, thanks for the great response to our 49 Writers workshop “Power Writing: Description that Works,” April 24 and May 1 the Kaladi Brothers on Brayton. We’ve filled all ten spots, but …
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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Continuing our series on small and regional presses with an interest in Northern titles, Peggy Schumaker discusses her Red Hen imprint, Boreal Books. Tell us about your company. Who started it? Why? Which books were among the first you published? What niche do you hold in the marketplace? Boreal Books is an imprint of Red …
Save the date: Monday, July 20. That’s when we’re planning another 49 Writers no-host gathering, this time in Anchorage to coincide with the UAA Summer Reading Series. Our plan is to meet after the readings, around 9:45 or 10 p.m., at the bar/lounge at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 600 East Benson, next to Allyn and …
