The last 49 writers author event of 2013 will be held on Thursday, Dec. 5, 7pm at Great Harvest Bread Company, when Marybeth Holleman will give a Reading & Craft talk entitled “How a Book Found Me.” The book in question is Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal, and Marybeth will discuss […]
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Martha Amore with fellow Weathered Edge authors Buffy McKay and Kris Farmen,reading from her novella “Edge of Somewhere” at Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks Thank you, Fairbanks authors, for a warm welcome last weekend and for some good conversations about the local literary scene and the needs of Fairbanks writers. We will be following up soon with a
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The 2013 Contributions to Literacy in Alaska (CLIA) Awards were presented on July 16 as part of Tuesday’s Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Readings event. This year’s recipients are Alaska’s first Pulitzer Prize finalist, a village literacy advocate, and a Fairbanks historian. Honorees are novelist Eowyn Ivey of Chickaloon, author of The Snow Child; Brevig
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This year’s Alaska Book Week is revving up thanks to 49 Writers member and volunteer Mary Kudenov, who is coordinating our annual celebration of Alaska’s authors and their books for her MFA practicum. She has already secured the participation of many libraries and bookstores across the state, and is now seeking authors who are available
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Al fresco reading at Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, June 17, 10pm It’s hard to believe another Kachemak Bay Writers Conference has come and gone. We were so privileged to spend time with the incomparable Naomi Shihab Nye, an amazing and inspirational keynote author. She urged us to develop a sense of patience, to stick with
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We are proud to announce another Crosscurrents literary weekend, coming up April 28 and 29 in Kodiak. Thanks to support from the Alaska Humanities Forum and our amazing local partners, Kodiak College and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, 49 Writers is bringing Eva Saulitis (Into Great Silence) to Kodiak for a series of events that
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We enjoyed a great craft talk earlier this week with Kris Farmen at Great Harvest Bread. Kris impressed us with his in-depth knowledge of the historical period in which he has set his newly published novel, Turn Again—the Kenai Peninsula of the 1890s—and his description of the process and challenges of writing a novel drawn
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Brendan reads his poem “My Grandma” It was wonderful to see such a good turnout of young writers and their families at last Friday’s Write Young Alaska (WYAK) anthology reading. A huge thank you to Peggy Brannon of Kasuun Elementary who encouraged so many of her former students to attend. Works read included poems and
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