One of my favorite lines on craft comes from Rebecca Solnit: “Any subject is a good enough starting point to travel any distance, toward any destination.” Actually, she was speaking about Thoreau’s practice of giving his politics and his leisure time equal narrative weight, of balancing berry picking with jail time, but the metaphor lends […]
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Crosscurrents Southeast, featuring Alaskan authors Sherry Simpson (right) and Ernestine Hayes, is coming your way! Combining our popular Crosscurrents on-stage conversation with a creative writing workshop, 49 Writers is pleased to be bringing this program to Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Craig in September 2014. In Juneau, Sherry Simpson will also give a reading at Douglas Public
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Many thanks to all the writers who submitted to the Anchorage Remembers anthology! We received more than 40 stories, which the selection committee will start reviewing soon. The majority of those stories came from writers who participated in one of the four memoir workshop series offered by this official Centennial project. Stay tuned for details,
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This is your final reminder that the deadline to submit a short memoir piece to the 49 Writers Anchorage Remembers centennial anthology is June 30—click here for more information and to submit. We know there are many fascinating stories out there to share and this is a chance to see yours in print! It’s always a pleasure to round
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