Thanks to Rich Chiappone, who has been our featured author this month and is also the author of this week’s cover story, “Rich! Bear!” in The Anchorage Press. Last week, in my blog titled “Will You Read My Manuscript For Me?” I encouraged writers to both give advice freely and to receive it with an […]
Needs a Little Work: guest post by Rich Chiappone Read More »
OK, I am not making this up: one minute ago, today July 16, at about 10:15 AM, I climbed into my comfortable writing chair, here in my dorm room at UAA intending to write this week’s blog on the subject of giving advice to newer writers who ask me to read there work. I had
Will You Read My Manuscript? A guest post by Rich Chiappone Read More »
Recently, at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, when the facilitator of a panel I was sitting on, my friend Nancy Lord, introduced me to the audience, she added (only half joking), “Rich is a bit of a contrarian.” Of course, I responded, “Am not!” OK, it’s a lame joke, but I cannot refuse a straight
Gerunds from Hell: A Guest-post by Rich Chiappone Read More »
I feel like a lucky guy, I really do. As a writer, I have little ambition to do anything beyond writing as well as I possibly can each time I sit down at the keyboard, and yet, somehow, rather miraculously, I now have two hardbound books to my name. Neither of them were my idea:
Bad Beat Stories: Guest-post by July featured author Rich Chiappone Read More »
Man, I have to say I was really startled by Andromeda’s announcement that she is about to enter the Low Residency MFA program at Antioch. Andromeda Romano Lax is everything that most of the writing students I’ve taught say they are striving to become: a skilled, published and respected writer; a serious writer who got
You want to do what?: Guest-post by Rich Chiappone Read More »
I happened to be clicking around randomly on just a few of our Alaska writer website sidebar links, and I was pleased to see several exciting Alaska-authored books coming our way. This is not a complete list — in fact, I’m hoping you’ll tell me what I’m missing, whether the forthcoming books are yours or
Andromeda: Big Alaska books coming this year! Read More »
I wondered if I could get through this month of guest posting without reference to my summertime exchange with Rich Chiappone about nature writing (and, when he got going, genre writing generally). Couldn’t do it. I enjoyed returning to the scene of the fight (figuratively speaking) and rereading Rich’s pointed responses to my post. I
Nature Writing Redux and Some Favorite Books: A Guest Post by Bill Sherwonit Read More »
The stinky entries for our Ode to a Dead Salmon contest keep rolling in. Remember you’ve got 8 days to submit your entry to debv@gci.net for a chance at an autographed Ray Troll t-shirt of your choice. Also, check out our 49 Writers Northern Favorites shelf in the sidebar to the right. We’ve added several
49 writers weekly round-up Read More »
I have never blogged before, so forgive me if I’m not good at this. (I sound like an innocent farm boy on his first trip to the brothel. Promise not to laugh at me, please!) Bill Sherwonit’s recent post discussed what seems obvious to everyone around him: the fact that nobody wants to be called
‘Nobody wants to be called a nature writer’ : a response by Rich Chiappone Read More »
What happened to June? I spent part of it on a tough assignment as a guest lecturer on an Inside Passage cruise (more about that next week) and another bit at the Alaska Book Festival in Fairbanks, but that doesn’t account for it all, and boy, is it gone. Hopefully you caught the four great
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