Thank you to everyone who contributed to the planning of our successful Reading & Craft Talk last week featuring Eva Saulitis. We were glad of the opportunity to collaborate with AQR and, as always, enjoyed the hospitality of Great Harvest Bread Company while appreciating the event coordination by Lucian Childs behind the scenes. Thanks also […]
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It’s hard to believe that AWP Boston has come and gone after the long build-up. Writers and literary groups around Alaska are already planning proposals for next year’s AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair in Seattle, February 26-March 1, 2014, which will feature Annie Proulx as the keynote. The proposal deadline is May 1, 2013. Although
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We asked people to share some of their write-a-thon works with us, and we got three brave takers: Sandy Kleven, Nancy Deschu, and writing from Alabama and with us in full write-a-thon spirit, former Alaskan Cindy Bell. Enjoy their writings and please help us out by voting for one PEOPLE’S CHOICE, just for fun. Casual
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Congrats, all you Raven Write-a-thon Writers, at least 44 strong, including some great Mears Middle Schoolers as well as former Alaskans — from as far as Alabama and Washington — who joined us in spirit. You packed Snow City Cafe: writers, laptops and old-school notebooks everywhere! You wrote a lot of words: over 61,000 tallied,
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Afterparty interpretive judge Maia Nolan commenting upon Rich Capitan’s poem about the birth of a dolphin: “I’ve got two words for you: Kafka-esque.” I wish I could remember a lot more lines like that one from the Raven write-a-thon and afterparty, but right now my head is still reeling. Photos and a report will come
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Thanks to all who turned out last Friday night for our Crosscurrents event featuring Susan Orlean in an onstage conversation with Julia O’Malley. We counted over 170 people in attendance. Thanks are in order as well to our event co-sponsors, Copper Whale Inn and ATIA; and especially to the Alaska Press Club, which was responsible
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Where I live in South Anchorage, the lights are fluttering, the wind is howling, and that’s on top of a viral attack on my desktop computer late last night (all offline documents and thousands of photos lost, at least I think so; anyone who knows more than I’ve been able to Google about the ‘Fake
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They’re neck and neck, separated by a mere penny: Dawnell Smith has raised $364.62 for 49 Writers via her Raven Write-a-thon pledge sheet, and Kirsten Dixon has raised $364.61. Bill Sherwonit is close behind and closing the gap at $359.61, much to his own surprise, because he was one of many who wasn’t sure that
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A few weeks ago we announced the launch of the Raven Write-a-thon (event April 8, registration still open with plenty of time to get involved via links at right) and we asked blog readers to send posts about how they stay in the chair and get the writing done. Vivian Faith Prescott of Alaska and
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