Join us for drinks, snacks, readings (sign up for a slot!), and all the tidings and biddings of a joyous holiday season and New Year. Free and open to all with limited auction items available for last minute gifts for the ones you love (including yourself).
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49 Writers Presents: A Reading Featuring Mieke Eerkens, Instructor for the 2024 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat This year’s featured instructor for the annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat will present a reading in Homer before the retreat. This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: GERRI BRIGHTWELL Recorded Thursday, May 25, 2023 | 6-7pm via Zoom Gerri Brightwell is a British writer who lives in Alaska. She is the author of the novels Dead of Winter (Salt, 2016), The Dark Lantern (Crown, 2008), Cold Country (Duckworth, 2003), and Turnback Ridge (Torrey House Press, 2022). Her short
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It’s November 12, and the cherry tree has seven orange leaves clinging to its spindly limbs out in front of my office. The rest of the leaves are a bright mâché on the wet grass. The water and the sky have blended to the color of freshly poured cement and the air is cold as
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SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | July-Sept, 2018 | 49 Writers presents Danger Close Alaska: programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. One night per month for six consecutive months (one remaining), Danger Close will focus on food, drink, discussion, and writing on different topics, shared between veterans and civilians. Click here for more
Literary Roundup | September 14-20, 2018 Read More »
I’ve loved reading ever since I was a child, and I loved doing book reports for school because I got to write and talk about books I loved. When I was in an MFA program I loved the required book responses (or annotations, as we called them) because I got to take those books apart
Guest Blogger Nancy Lord | Why I Review Books—and Why You Should Consider It Read More »
In graduate school, I began annotating the books I read. Unlike lots of things from graduate school that I should still be doing, this habit stuck. I do it to this day. I love making that short entry in my tiny notebook when I finish reading something—an intentional assessment of resonance, failings, delights—and I find
Guest Blogger Christine Byl | What Shall I Read Next? Read More »
Louise Erdrich told a small group of Alaskan writers gathered at Tutka Bay Lodge outside of Homer a month ago that poetry is lightning and prose is rain. She also said that our survival as a species may just depend on telling stories. It’s in our DNA. I read the other day that literature is
AQR @35 | Chutzpah and Energy, by Heather Lende Read More »
I am always surprised when I hear fellow writers admit that they are not avid readers. The reason they often give is a lack of time, or that they’d rather not let another author—especially a disciple of the same genre or subject matter as theirs—influence their own style. Similarly, there seem to exist more bloggers
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“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.” ~ M.F.K. Fisher When my husband Carl and I left Anchorage to start our lives in the backcountry, I brought along a small box of cookbooks. As Carl worked on the main lodge he was building, and I remained
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