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Behind the Scenes at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference by Erin Hollowell

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The Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference was established in 2002. That’s twenty-two years of writers gathering on the shores of Kachemak Bay to learn from each other and form a community that includes members from all across Alaska and the lower-48. Like many long-established events, the conference is trying to evolve to meet the changing needs […]

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Haunted By Futility or Saving the World: Writing Climate Crisis by Erica Watson

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Over the winter, I spent some time driving to an undisclosed location in the desert with two anarchist medics I’d not met before. The person driving asked me and the other passenger, “What are you reading right now?” You can count on anarchists to never open a conversation with a question about your job. And

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Residency? by Ken Waldman

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Inspired by a friend who applied for, and received, a three-month internship at a honeybee sanctuary during the pandemic, in early 2021 I applied for more than a dozen writing residencies. Like so many other submissions, this was mostly met with rejection. But also like so much of this work, putting in an initial effort

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Reading & Conversation: Melinda Moustakis

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READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: MELINDA MOUSTAKIS Recorded Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 6:30-7:30pm via Zoom Melinda Moustakis is the author of the novel Homestead ( Flatiron Books 2023), which is about two unlikely homesteaders in 1950’s Alaska and based on her maternal grandparents who homesteaded in Point MacKenzie, Alaska. Her linked story collection Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories won the

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The Top Reason for Novel Rejections by Andromeda Romano-Lax

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In twenty years of submitting novels for publication, I’ve never received an email from an agent or editor saying, “I can’t take this manuscript, the setting wasn’t clear enough.” Or “…the descriptions weren’t vivid enough.” Or “…I wasn’t dazzled by your use of metaphor or simile.” All of those elements are important, and I do

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Writing the Next Chapter in Anchorage’s MFA Narrative by Emily Tallman

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In June 2020, shortly after the University of Alaska Board of Regents voted to cut UAA’s master of fine arts program in creative writing, David Onofrychuk filled out paperwork to launch a new MFA in Creative Writing program at Alaska Pacific University. As associate professor of creative writing and composition at APU since 2010, and

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