It was wonderful to see such a great turnout for both Debra Gwartney events on Monday. Twenty writers attended her brown bag lunch seminar on Publishing Nonfiction, and thirty of us gathered for the evening talk on Pitfalls of the Memoir. Debra was generous of her time and knowledge during her brief stay in Anchorage, […]
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It’s hard to believe that AWP Boston has come and gone after the long build-up. Writers and literary groups around Alaska are already planning proposals for next year’s AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair in Seattle, February 26-March 1, 2014, which will feature Annie Proulx as the keynote. The proposal deadline is May 1, 2013. Although
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This is your final registration reminder for 49 Writers workshops beginning in the next 10 days: Building an Online Platform as a Writer (Lorena Knapp) on Saturday, October 27; Writing Wrongs (Creative Nonfiction with Jonathan Bower) on Saturday, November 3 and 10; Character: Fiction’s Master Key (Andromeda Romano-Lax) on November 6, 13 & 20); and,
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Alaska Book Week display at Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this year’s Alaska Book Week—participants came from all over the state, including Barrow, Bethel, Chugiak, Eagle River, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Nenana, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, and Wasilla, and even from Outside (Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, and
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We had a wonderful turnout last week for our first 49 Writers literary salon of the season—a great opportunity for our members to gather, get to know or reconnect with one other, and share some of their work. These gatherings are hosted in a member’s home and invitations go out to current members only due
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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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Please join me in thanking Cinthia Ritchie for taking over the weekly roundup duties while Ela Harrison Gordon is on hiatus – we greatly appreciate her offer to help out. It seems appropriate, therefore, to start off by congratulating Cinthia on her 2012 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award! Cinthia is one of four artists who
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If you are a young writer or know one, don’t miss today’s deadline, March 23, for our second WYAK contest – Flash Fiction! It’s easy to submit online. We are also accepting submissions from young writers for a print anthology that will be published in early summer. Coming up on Sunday, March 5, 1:00-4:00 pm,
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This week we launched our new Write Young Alaska or WYAK website – check it out! Many thanks to Stefanie Tatalias, WYAK Outreach Coordinator, for the design and launch of the website, with input from the rest of our WYAK leadership team – Hillary Walker, WYAK Teen Coordinator, and Jen Walker, WYAK Contests & Anthology
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