Spritzing vodka on an Alaska Airlines jet when de-icing fluid couldn’t be found in the Russian Far East. Alaska’s First Lady forgetting her passport on the first high-profile visit to the USSR in 40 years. Launching notes of friendship across the Bering Strait tied to weather balloons instead of messages in a bottle to […]
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Hoarse from hollering over the bar din at Alice’s Champagne Palace, I walked out to the parking lot with my anthology contributors, Teeka Ballas and Dawnell Smith. We’d just finished celebrating the Homer event on our Alaska book tour for Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry. We
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Tomorrow is the culmination of almost three years of work on the part of myself and my co-editor, Martha Amore. Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry has just been published by the University of Alaska Press. To commemorate the day, I’d like to take a sentimental journey
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Tell us about your background. I’m a full-time writer. To supplement my income, I work as a freelance editor (developmental and proofreading), and I teach creative writing workshops. My undergraduate degree is in English, and I have a Master of Arts in Humanities. I live on Hiland Mountain, outside of Anchorage (in Eagle River, actually),
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Tom Kizzia’s long-awaited book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, is now in bookstores! You can read an excerpt here on the Anchorage Daily News website and check out Jeremy Pataky’s July 16 interview with Tom Kizzia on this blog. There are several upcoming opportunities to learn more
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David Stevenson, Director of the UAA Creative Writing & Literary Arts Low-Residency MFA Program Don’t miss this year’s Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series, which begins Sunday, July 14, 8pm at UAA’s Rasmuson Hall 101 with author Linda Hogan. View the reading schedule here. How long have you been working at UAA? I am
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This semester, 49 Writers is offering classes in Anchorage, Juneau, and Palmer. Our thanks go to the Juneau Empire for spreading the word there! Sign up to avoid disappointment; registrations are coming in daily. If you want to focus in-depth on one piece of work or one aspect of your writing, don’t miss the opportunity
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Much of Alaska is bathed in sunshine, and we’re feeling sunny as well at 49 Writers, basking in the sense of community you all have created at our new 49 Alaska Writing Center. If you’re still spring cleaning, we’d be happy to take a few lovingly used DVDs and board games off your hands for our guesthouse. Drop them off on
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Tired of all the press on Sarah’s new book? We got some nice press of our own this week at 49 Writers. This month’s Alaska Magazine has a nice large write-up on our Ode to a Dead Salmon contest, including a big ugly picture and a quote from the winning entry, with a link to
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Wow. What a week. Dana Stabenow inks a deal with Evergreen Films toward a TV series featuring her Aleut PI, and Joan Kane earns a hugely prestigious Whiting Award. Front page of the Anchorage Daily News, two days running. Of course we covered the big news for Dana and Joan, too. Well done, Alaskan authors.
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