Each year, I spend the week between the winter holidays and New Year’s Eve reflecting on the year that is passing and preparing for the year that is coming up. I make sure that I take time to really consider the answers to the following questions: What do I want to let go of? What […]
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There is so much happening at 49 Writers it’s hard to keep up – 2013 is off to a great start! First, we’d like to thank the Alaska Humanities Forum for funding Crosscurrents: a Confluence of Writers and Readers, a project that enables us to stage two literary weekends with partners in Barrow and Kodiak.
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Sue Pope reads from her essay about birding in Bhutan Writers are made of stern stuff! Despite the frigid temperatures around town on Wednesday, a trusty band of students from this year’s workshops turned out to share their writing at our Indigo Tea Lounge gathering. We heard descriptions of the sensory pleasures of St. Thomas
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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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Thanks to all who turned out for our first 2012 Synergies, “Poemgrass: a Poet and a Banjo,” with special thanks to poet Peggy Shumaker and musician Robin Child as well as volunteer coordinators Jeremy Pataky and Susanna Mishler. Coming up: statewide Resolve to Write events, when we gather to share our writing resolve for the
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Tomorrow, Saturday, January 7 at 7pm, come out to Pioneer Park, Bear Gallery, Centennial Center, Fairbanks, for the Fairbanks Arts Association’s Literary Reading Series “Ice Fog Open Mic,” featuring Heather Warren, Donald Crocker, Michael Shaeffer, Jasmine Stokes, Raif Johnson-Kennedy–and you! The 49 Writers Synergies Series opens up 2012 with “Poemgrass: a Poet and a Banjo,”
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In grand style, our first 49 Writers events of 2011 kicked off in Juneau and Anchorage on Friday night, with Resolve to Write gatherings in Anchorage and Juneau. In Juneau, Therese Harvey and Grace Elliott hosted. Therese reports an even dozen in attendance at the Rookery on a freezing cold Juneau night. She adds, “Among us
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Aside from a handful of short email responses, the only writing I did last week was to sign my name to credit card charge slips. I was “busy” strolling Maui’s sandy beaches, snorkeling in the Pacific, hiking a bamboo forest to a spectacular waterfall, marveling at giant waves breaking along Oahu’s North Shore, and watching
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No one said it would be easy. Whenever I think I’ve mastered this simple truth about writing, it seems I have to re-learn it. I like to think it’s because as we advance as writers, we embrace greater challenges, but in truth I know it’s also because sometimes we simply don’t know how we managed
