Richard Dauenhauer and Nora Marks Dauenhauer take questions about their work. Our thanks go to Alaska State Writer Laureate Nora Marks Dauenhauer and former Poet Laureate Richard Dauenhauer for their most enjoyable reading last Friday at the UAA/APU Consortium Library. Selections covered the full range of their work, from Nora’s ever-popular “How to Make Good […]
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We have a winner! Our readers have spoken, and “One fish, two fish, red fish, more red fish” surged ahead in the final few days to win this year’s Ode to a Dead Salmon contest. This fishy homage to Dr. Seuss captured the spirit of the challenge to produce clever bad writing with a distinctly
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Today: Resolve to Write events, when we gather to share our writing resolve for the new year. We’ll kick off the fun with our first-ever Resolve to Write for young writers: join WYAK hosts F Magazine publisher Teeka Ballas and ASD senior Lauren Heyano for an informal discussion on how to get started (and stay motivated), how to fine-tune your work, and how to get your writing into print. Young writers of all ages are welcome: today, Friday, January 20, 4-5 pm, Teen Underground, Loussac Library. The Anchorage event for members and volunteers will be tonight, January 20, at 7 pm. If you haven’t received your email invitation, contact us at 49writers@gmail.com. Not a member or volunteer yet? Visit www.49writingcenter.org to sign up today! Unfortunately, the Eagle River event has been canceled due to lack of response. In Homer, the Resolve to Write event (open to all writers) is on January 24 at 6 pm at the Homer Library; we hear there will be plenty of snacks for those who come straight from work. Registration is brisk for our spring term, which begins February 2. From our “Publish and Promote” series to plot, poetry, submissions, and more, we’ve got something for everyone. Make 2012 the year you get serious about writing! Sign up today. Our spring line-up includes our first course taught in Palmer, Writing Your Place (begins February 2) and a Fiction Apprenticeship with novelist Mattox Roesch. Open to three participants, the Fiction Apprenticeship is an individualized option for writers who need to dive into greater depth and detail on their work. Interested applicants should send 20 page of a fiction project and a brief statement of goals for their work to apprenticeship@49writingcenter.org by January 31. One change to the spring course schedule: Copyright Basics with John McKay will be on February 18 rather than March 24. For a comprehensive calendar of literary events throughout Alaska, visit http://www.alaskalitevents.com/. Tonight, Friday January 20, 7pm, Ray Troll and Dr Kirk Johnson will be presenting and
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With school letting out for the summer today in Anchorage and around the state, it might seem odd that we’re getting excited already about our fall term of writing instruction here at 49 Writers. But we love reviewing course proposals (for fall, due June 1) from some of the state’s finest writers and putting together a
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A reminder to writers in Southeast Alaska: 49 Writers is headed your way, and we’d love to meet with you at one of our no-host Writers Gatherings. Come catch the excitement, tell us about your writing, and share ideas about how we can better serve your area. In Ketchikan: Monday, Nov. 15, 4:30-5:30 pm at The
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But soft! What splash from yonder stream I hear? With a decidedly Shakespearean bent, our readers have chosen from three worthy finalists the tale of a fish-spurned lover in Jerry Juday’s “Russian River Campground, 5:15 a.m.” as their favorite bad writing in our annual 49 Writers Ode to a Dead Salmon contest. For his efforts,
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We’ve been feeling the love from statewide newspapers covering the expansion of 49 writers into the 49 Alaska Writing Center and Raven Place guesthouse. Yesterday, The Juneau Empire published a particularly nice feature by Amy Fletcher about all of us (us? who? yes — I’m talking about you as well, blog reader, because you’re part
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…A new fish-fantastic public bus ready to hit the streets of Ketchikan on Monday, painted by Ray Troll and Memo Jauregui.
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