Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for October 16

We’re halfway through October, and you’ve just received your PFD, time to invest in your writing life by becoming a member of 49 Writers and taking a workshop or two!


There are still a few In Person and Online
Workshops
organized by 49 Writers that
you can sign up. Check out the details and register at the 49 Writers
website.
ANCHORAGE –
IN PERSON
BURNING
WITH LOVE: HOW TO WRITE ABOUT LOVE WITHOUT BLUSHING with Alyse Knorr
November
3 from 7-10pm
Location: 161
E. 1st Ave., Door 15 (Alaska Humanities Forum)
Price: $45 member/$55
non-member. Register 
here!
All
genres.
THE
SPIRITUAL IN WRITING: ACROSS FAITH, GENRES, AND TIME with Kathleen Tarr
November
10, 12, 17, and 19 from 7:00-9:30pm
Location: 161
E. 1st Ave., Door 15 (Alaska Humanities Forum)
Price: $150 member/$170
non-member. Register 
here!
All
genres
ONLINE
CLASSES
NO
BLOGGING REQUIRED! HOW TO MATCH YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE WITH WHO YOU REALLY ARE
with Cindy Dyson
November
4 and 11 from 7:00-8:30pm
 
Price: $45 members/ $55
nonmembers. Register 
here!
Description:
If
authors followed the conventional wisdom about creating a robust online
presence, they’d be blogging 2 days a week, tweeting one, and filling the rest
with FB posts. In other words, no time — or mental energy — left to actually
craft great books. The world NEEDS writers who have time to think and write the
big thoughts. 
This
class takes a strategic, and sometimes contrarian, view of how authors can kick
the scree loose to find an online path to promotion that works FOR rather than
AGAINST the work they most care about.
Focusing
on new technologies, off-bandwagon thinking, and the fundamentals of
author-reader interaction, the class is about 40% based on recent research into
online user/reader needs/desires and about 60% based on author self-analysis.
The goal of the class is for authors to discover the intersection of these and
how to use online tools to best offer their work to those who would benefit
from it most.
NOTE:
This class will be conducted by Skype. Students must have a basic knowledge of
computer functionality, internet browser functionality and word-processing
software.
The
following class is asynchronous: there are no scheduled meeting times but
there will be weekly assignments and expectations, and everyone will complete
the work on their own time. Interaction will utilize text-based formats such as
discussion boards.
FIRST
PERSON COMPLICATED–THE DUAL-VOICED NARRATOR with Andromeda Romano-Lax
November
2 to November 22
9+
hours over 3 Weeks
Online.
No scheduled meetings, asynchronous instruction
Price: $150 member/$165
non-member. Register 
here
Genres:
Fiction/Nonfiction
Instructors WANTED
Are
you interested in sharing what you’ve learned as a writer? 
We are always looking for
qualified faculty to teach for 49 Writers. If you are a published writer with
teaching experience and a passion for your craft, we want to hear from you! If
you have expertise pertaining to other aspects of writing and the writing life,
let’s talk.
Please
contact Erin at
49writers@gmail.com or fill out a course proposal form. We’re
looking for workshops of all lengths, but particularly one and two day
offerings. Proposal deadline November 15.
Woosh Kinaadeiyí
will host their 5th annual Grand
Poetry Slam
competition on October
17th
, 2015, 7 pm at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. The
organization’s five years of monthly poetry slams and open mic events in the
community will be celebrated. The Grand Poetry Slam will include a slam
competition featuring winners from the past season. The poets will perform
original work and are judged by members of the community. The winning poet will
receive $50 and the 2015 Grand Slam Award. Competing in the slam are Erika
Bergren, Fysh Houck, David Parish, Maureen Longworth, Christina Apathy, and
Mike Christenson.
The
event will also include opening performances by Dee Jay DeRego, Christy NaMee
Eriksen, Amy Pinney, Caroline Garcia, and Ziggy Unzicker.
The
show will be hosted by Conor Lendrum and Annie Bartholomew, with the Woosh
Kinaadeiyí House Band. The event is pay as you can, with a suggested donation
of $5-10.
The
event is the organization’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Limited edition
items, including the Woosh Kinaadeiyí Season Six t-shirts designed by local
artist Crystal Worl, will be available to purchase.
Woosh
Kinaadeiyí is a local nonprofit committed to diversity, inclusive community,
and empowering voice. Learn more at
www.facebook.com/wooshpoetry.
Contact:
Christy NaMee Eriksen, Woosh Kinaadeiyí President,
christynamee@gmail.com.
Poetry Parley will meet Wednesday, October 21st
6:30-8:00pm
at Modern Dwellers – a chocolate lounge – in the area near
Metro Books, Great Harvest, and Embassy Suites…  on the West of these other
entities. Here’s a link. to the Modern Dweller website. Our local
poet is Gene Ervine, who grew up in the forest near Mount Vernon, Washington
and after a number of adventures lives in Anchorage. His exhibit text
appears at Sitka National Historical Park, Denali and the Arctic interagency
Visitor Center in Alaska, and across the country from Cape Hatteras to Hawaii
Volcanos National Park. As a student at Western Washington University he edited
JEOPARDY literary magazine and earned a minor in creative writing.  He
has been published recently in CIRQUE and CLOVER A LITERARY RAG. Gene
was influenced by Oregon poet William Stafford, Beat poet Gary Snyder and a
host of others. 
Alaska Women Speak is a quarterly journal of
women’s writing in its 23rd year of publication. Please join us in helping to
redefine the journal and meet the needs of more Alaska writers and readers.
Feel free to pass this email along to others who who would like to help Alaska
Women Speak by taking this survey.
EVENTS
IN ANCHORAGE
Events
at the UAA Bookstore
Saturday,
October 17
from 1:00pm-3:00pm at the UAA/APU
Consortium Library, room 307
Professor
Sudarsan Rangarajan presents  French Poets from A Gray Barn Rising.
At this event, French
poets from A Gray Barn Rising—including Francis Ponge and  Robert Desnos
–will be highlighted with Sudarsan Rangarajan.  Sudarsan Rangarajan is
professor of French and Coordinator of the French Program Department of
Languages at UAA.  His areas of interest include twentieth century French
and Québécois literatures, and critical theory. His book, Critical Essays on
Michel Butor’s L’Emploi du Temps
, was published by Peter Lang in 2012.
There
is free parking at UAA on Saturdays
.
Friday,
October 23
from 1:00pm-2:30pm, Student Union room 105, Lyla Richards
Sarah
Hayes presents Tails and Trails: Winter Recreation in Denali National Park
Sarah
Hayes, National Park Service Backcountry Ranger, explains the history and
wonders of Denali National Park sled dogs and the ways you can enjoy the winter
with them.
Monday, October 26 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA/APU
Consortium Library, room 307
Heather
Hudson presents Connecting Alaskans: Telecommunications in Alaska
from Telegraph to Broadband
Connecting
Alaskans 
tells
the unique history of extending communication services including telephony,
radio, television and the Internet throughout rural Alaska.
Wednesday,
October 28 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA/APU Consortium Library, room 307
Jervette
R. Ward discusses  Real Sister:   Stereotypes,
Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Jervette
R. Ward is editor of and contributor to the book Real Sister: Stereotypes,
Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
, recently published by
Rutgers University Press. At this event, she discusses how the book came
together, the characterization of African American women in reality TV shows,
pervading stereotypes, and the representation of beautiful, powerful black
women.
All
UAA Campus Bookstore events are informal, free and open to the public. 
 For a look at future events see https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm 
Local
Library Events

Censorship,
Diversity, and Young Adult Literature: A Panel Discussion,
Thursday, October 29th, 7pm in the Innovation
Lab
at Z.J. Loussac Public Library, 3600 Denali Street.
Panelists
will include:
Dr.
Jervette Ward – Assistant professor at UAA and author of, “In Search of
Diversity: Dick and Jane and Their Black Playmates”, as well as the editor of,
“Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV”.
Michael
Robinson – UAA/APU Consortium Library and Chair of the Alaska State Library
Association’s Committee on Intellectual Freedom


Jane
Baird – Anchorage Public Library, Collection Development


Jon
Ebron – Anchorage Public Library, Teen Librarian
Book
Signings
EVENTS
AROUND ALASKA
SOUTHCENTRAL,
MAT-SU, KENAI PENINSULA
SOUTHEAST
INTERIOR
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR WRITERS
Looking
for a writer in Juneau who could commit to cover 2-3 days each week
(Monday-Friday) from 4-5:30pm during November’s NaNoWriMo to help give kids
time to write, support and maybe even give some motivation and ideas. The
writer will partner with Jennifer Walker who will be covering the other 2-3
days each week. To meet and plan, please contact her at
paterjen@gmail.com.
The
blog/website 
agingalaskans.info is seeking
fiction and non-fiction submissions to publish as blog postings, newsletter
items, and possibly in other venues such as an electronic compilation of items
from the website. All interested writers are strongly advised to review the
website in detail to get a feel for website which focuses on issues of concern
to Alaskans in their 50s and older. We are interested in:
    short stories
    essays
    book reviews
    poetry
    memoirs
Here
are a few details and caveats.
    We are volunteers, so we
cannot pay for submissions. Ask again when we are rich and famous 🙂
    Subject matter must broadly
fit the theme “aging in Alaska” involving and/or clearly targeting
persons in their 50s and older.
    Submit whatever mix and
number of items you want, but they must not total more than 1,000 words. 
    Do not submit anything else
until we invite you in writing to do so.
    Submissions may have been
published elsewhere (please indicate where), but you must indicate
truthfully
 that you have all relevant rights to publish the article.
We may ask for documentation.
    Please include a short, one
paragraph bio, and a digital photo of yourself that we will post with your
work.
   
Please send submissions to: ldweiss@agingalaskans.info  and expect a response within weeks.
CONFERENCES,
AWARDS, RETREATS & RESIDENCIES
360 North will start the 2015-16 season of
Writers’ Showcase. All Alaska writers are invited to submit fiction and
nonfiction pieces. Stories are read before a live studio audience by
professional actors, and later broadcast throughout Alaska on statewide public
TV and radio. Stories should be about 10 minutes long when read aloud.
Profanity will need to be edited for broadcast.
SUBMISSION
DEADLINE              RECORDING DATE
October 15,
2015                                November
13, 2015
January 18,
2016                                February
25, 2016
April 25,
2016                                    June
2, 2016
Submit to arts
[at] ktoo [dot] org.
For questions contact Scott Burton
Arts, Culture and Music Producer at
907.463.6473
The
2016 Governor’s Awards
 ceremony will be held in Juneau on Thursday,
January 28th
. We will also continue the tradition of scheduling CHAMP Day
(Culture, Humanities, Arts & Museums Partners), a legislative fly-in day,
on Wednesday, January 27th. Please start brainstorming ideas
for nominees and consider submitting a nomination! The nomination process will
open in August. This year’s Arts categories will be: Margaret Nick
Cooke Award for Alaska Native Arts & Languages, Business Leadership, Arts
Advocacy and Individual Artist. A list of previous awardees can be found
at 
https://education.alaska.gov/aksca/pdf/Past_Recipients_GAAH.pdf.
2016
Statewide Arts and Culture Conference
 will take place in Anchorage, Thursday, April
28th through Saturday, April 30th
. We are in the process of
exploring compelling themes, topics and national speakers for the convening.
Like our last conference, we will be engaging Alaskan artists in the planning
and production of the event. Be on the lookout for the opportunity to apply to
be a conference Partner Artist, which will open in the fall. If you have any
ideas to share with us, please send them our way by emailing 
aksca.info@alaska.gov
13
Chairs Literary Journal
, a new literary journal publishing short stories and poetry
from new and emerging authors, seeks submissions and volunteers. They are
currently composing their flagship issue, straight out of JBER, AK. To learn
more, and to submit, email info@13chairs.com or
visit 13chairs.com.
Alaska Women Speak is now accepting
submissions for the Winter 2015 issue.  The upcoming theme is
“Talking over Coffee (or Tea).”  Submissions are due November
15th.
Write to Publish, in partnership with the
Timberline Review and Cirque, offer a flash fiction contest and a Pacific
Northwest poetry contest this year. Submissions
open September 8 and close October 30, 2015. Entries for the
Pacific Northwest poetry contest may be original, unpublished works up to 40
lines and should be centered on a Pacific Northwest theme. Entries for the
flash fiction contest must be 700 words or fewer, original, unpublished, and
double spaced. Winners will be notified the first week of December and will win
a cash prize of $100, a reading at the conference and publication in Timberline
Review for poetry and Cirque for flash fiction.
The
contest fee is $10, and only one story or poem may be submitted per person, per
contest. Please send submissions via email to
w2p@ooliganpress.pdx.edu with “Flash Fiction Contest Submission” or “PNW
Poetry Contest Submission” as the subject line.
For
more detailed information about the contests, the conference, or to purchase
tickets, visit
http://ooligan.pdx.edu/writetopublish/.
Alderworks Alaska
Writers
and Artists Retreat
will be accepting residency applications
November 15,
2015 – January15, 2016
. For more information visit http://alderworksalaska.com
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