Weekly Roundup of Writing Opportunities for February 19

2016
Class Schedule
Registration
for 2016 classes and workshops has started. Description, details, and
registration on our 
website.
 Feel free to contact us at 49writers@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Anchorage
Mini
Memoirs: Let’s Do Some Writing! taught by Judith Conte
February
20-21 and 27-28, 1-3pm
What
Women Want taught by Martha Amore
March
3, 6-9pm
“THE
END!” Writing Good Endings and Achieving Closure taught by Alyse Knorr
March
5, 6-9pm
Writing
with Anna Akhmatova taught by Olga Livshin and Kathleen Tarr
March
12 and 19, 9am-1pm
Forms
of Poetry taught by Alyse Knorr
April
6, 13, 20, and 27, 6-9pm
Effectively
Use Microsoft Word to Publish your Book to Kindle taught by Lara Madden
April
7, 6-9pm
Set
Your Fiction on Fire taught by Kim Heacox
April
13, 6-9pm
Homer
Confusing
the Censor: Nurturing Receptive Mind taught by Peter Kaufmann and Wendy Erd
April
8 6:30-8:30pm, April 9 9am-noon & 1-4pm
Juneau
Set
Your Fiction on Fire taught by Kim Heacox
April
18, 6-9pm
Online
Flash
Fiction taught by Katey Schultz
4
week asynchronous (12 hours minimum) – one optional video chat – fiction
February
29-April 3
Flashbacks
Without Whiplash: Managing Time in Fiction by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Asynchronous
online class
April
4-25
EVENTS
IN ANCHORAGE
Savor
the Rising Word Broadside Invitational
Members
of 49 Writers and past or present participants in 49 Writers workshops are
invited to submit poetry broadsides for display at Great Harvest Bread Co.
throughout the month of April 2016 in honor of National Poetry Month. Featured
poets will be encouraged to read their works during a public event at the bakery
at a date and time to be determined. Broadsides in the exhibit will be
available for sale and proceeds will be donated to 49 Writers; those not sold
will be retained by 49 Writers for future displays or events.
Details: Broadly defined, a poetry
broadside combines the words of a poem with visual imagery. Though often
printed on a letterpress or in other printmaking media, for purposes of this
exhibit we will include any presentation that combines original poetry and
original artwork (including photos) on thick paper (at least cardstock weight)
no greater than 14” x 18” in size. Collaborative poet/artist pieces and collage
pieces are welcome as long as they do not exceed the size limit.
Deadline: Monday, March 28, 2016. Submissions should be
well wrapped in an envelope or paper and mailed or delivered by this date to
the following address:
SAVOR
THE RISING WORDS
Great
Harvest Bread Co. Attn: Barbara Hood
570
East Benson, Suite 22 Anchorage, AK 99503
Please
make sure your name(s) appear on the piece and include a completed 
Entry Form with
your submission. All entrants will receive a coupon for a free loaf of bread
and heartfelt gratitude. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your creative
work and support a great cause!
Questions?
Please
contact Barbara at middlerockraven@gmail.com or 907-301-5362. Thanks!
Events
at the UAA Bookstore
Monday,
February 22 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at UAA/APU Consortium Library room 307
Historian
J. Pennelope
Goforth
shares
her exciting discovery of Alaska Commercial Company business logbooks and
ledgers from several villages in the Aleutians.  
She
found six ACC ledgers, dated from 1875-1897,  in a Nordstrom shopping bag
in a basement in Washington state. They are a  real treasure find since
many ACC records were -destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. 
J.
Pennelope Goforth  is author of the  acclaimed book, Sailing the
Mail in Alaska, The Maritime Years of Alaska Photographer John E. Thwaite
.
There
is free parking for this even in the Library Lot, Library NE Lot and the East
garage.  
UAA
Bookstore Events Return Home:  March 1, 2016
With
new chairs, new carpet, new lights, new ideas for open minds
Tuesday,
March 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore  
Writing
Other People’s Memoir
with Alaskan Authors Charles Wohlforth, Debra McKinney and
Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan.
At
this event, the numerous challenges faced in co-writing another’s life story
are addressed.  Charles Wohlforth co-authored To Russia With Love, An
Alaskan’s Journey  (
Victor Fischer);  Debra McKinney co-authored Beyond
the Bear How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear
 (
Dan Bigley) ,  and Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan
  co- authored Canyons and Ice, the Wilderness Travels of Dick
Griffith
 and  Our Perfect WildRay and Barbara
Bane’s Journeys and the Fate of the Far North.
 
There
is free parking for this event in the South Lot, the West Campus Central Lot
(behind Rasmuson Hall), the Sports Lot and the Sports NW Lot. 
Saturday, March 5, 1:30pm –
3:30pm
at UAA Campus Bookstore. Details forthcoming.
Alaskan
Anthologies
with
Frank Soos, Anne Hanley, Marybeth Holleman, Bill Sherwonit, Wayne Mergler and
Cheryl Lovegreen
Anthologies
and editors include: Marybeth Holleman: Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the
Environment Wayne Mergler: The Last New Land : Stories of Alaska, Past and
Present Bill Sherwonit: Denali: A Literary Anthology; Alaska Ascents; and
Travelers’ Tales Alaska Anne Hanley: Alaska Reader: Voices from the North
Cheryl Lovegreen: Anchorage Remembers: A Century of Tales (contributor) Frank
Soos, Under Northern Lights: Writers and Artists View the Alaskan Landscape
Local
Library Events
Book
Signings
EVENTS
AROUND ALASKA
SOUTHCENTRAL,
MAT-SU, KENAI PENINSULA
Homer
Shut
Up and Write! 
Taking
the writing experience from solitary to social.
Thursdays,
7pm to 9pm
,
February 4 to March 10 in Homer
Alice’s
Champagne Palace, upstairs, 
No
critiquing, exercises, lectures, ego, competition or feeling guilty, just a
place to show up, shut up, and work on your writing projects in the company of
other writers
No
fees or registration, just fun!
Contact
Christina Whiting for more information:
907-435-7969
SOUTHEAST
Juneau
Generative
Writing Retreat
Friday
March 11-Sunday March 13 at the
Shrine of St. Therese Main Lodge in Juneau.
Join
us for a lovely retreat that will foster time to write in your busy lives.
Bring
your own sleeping bag and pillow. Participants will be paired to host a
meal for the group (hosting includes planning, purchasing the food, and
preparation). Bring your own coffee, tea, and snacks.
Details: No
Instructor, Participant Led/ Private Rooms (limit of ten). If participants
would like to share rooms, great! There is no discount for sharing rooms.
Cost: $100
for Members. Register at 
http://www.49writingcenter.org/programs/juneau.php.
Woosh Kinaadeiyí OPEN MIC
The
first Open Mic will take place at GonZo, this month! Bring your poems, your
guitars, your monologues, your one woman magic show hula hoop routines and join
us for an all ages, all abilities event next week. 
Woosh
Kinaadeiyí OPEN MIC, Friday, February 19th,
6:30 pm (sign up at 6), GonZo (11806 Glacier Highway in Auke
Bay).
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR WRITERS
CONFERENCES,
AWARDS, RETREATS & RESIDENCIES
The
fifteenth 
Kachemak
Bay Writers’ Conference
 will
be held on 
June 10-14 in Homer. This year’s keynote
is Pulitzer Prize winning, National Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, who will
be joined by Miriam Altshuler (agent), Dan Beachy-Quick, Richard
Chiappone, Jennine Capó Crucet, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Forrest Gander, Lee
Goodman, Richard Hoffman, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Sarah Leavitt, Nancy
Lord, Jane Rosenman (editor), Peggy Shumaker, Sherry Simpson, Frank Soos,
and David Stevenson. For more information and to register go to
the 
website
Registration now open to the
2016 
Tutka
Bay Writers Retreat,
 which will take place on September 9-11, 2016 at
the Tutka Bay Lodge. Faculty instructor award-winning novelist and short story
writer Rick Moody will lead fiction writers in a workshop will focus on
experiment, imagination, and revision, techniques for each, with an emphasis on
writing prompts, close reading of sentences, and ideas about structure. There
will be much in-class writing, and the overall atmosphere will stick close to
supportiveness, collegiality, and constructive improvement. The engaged student
will emerge with improved techniques for further work. Early registration fee
is $600 for members and $650 for nonmembers. For more information or to
register, go to: 
http://www.49writingcenter.org/Retreats%26Events/retreats.php.
Call
for 10-Minute Plays for 2016 8X10 Festival
Fairbanks
Drama Association and The Looking Glass Group Theatre invite Alaskan residents
to send their best 10-minute plays to be considered for our Annual 8X10
Festival of New Alaskan Plays.
Eight
ten-minute plays will be given staged readings at the Festival, which will be
held April 22 & 23, 2016, at FDA’s Hap Ryder Riverfront Theater in
Fairbanks.
Guidelines
for entering scripts: Alaskan residents only. One entry per
playwright. One author per play. No musicals or children’s plays. Submit 5
(five) copies of each script. Staple or paper-clip the play. DO NOT use binders
or folders of any kind. Plays cannot be returned. Put playwright’s name
and contact info, including phone and e-mail, on the cover (title) page. This
is the only place the author’s name should appear. “Cast of Characters”
page with brief character descriptions and time & place should follow cover
page. Number pages beginning with the first page of dialogue. Plays should
be between 8 & 12 minutes, based on one minute of playing time per page of
script, 12 pt. font size, and be written in standard playwriting
format. Cast size should be no more than eight actors. No electronic
submissions or Express mail.
Submissions
must be postmarked or hand-delivered no later than March 15, 2016 to:
8X10
Festival
Fairbanks
Drama Association/ Looking Glass Group Theatre
1852
Second Avenue
Fairbanks,
Alaska 99701
For
more information, contact: Peggy MacDonald Ferguson, Executive
Director, 
pegferguson@gci.net
Distance
Critique
Get
professional feedback on your writing for ADULTS, teens, or children! How
does it work? Register and send your material in by due date (January; they
send it to a professional literary agent who critiques and sends it back.
Optional workshop to discuss critiques. Brought to you by The Society
of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, SCBWI, Alaska Chapter, but this
critique is for writers of any content. 
The
sixth annual 
North Words Writers Symposium will be held May 25-28 in
Skagway. Novelist/essayist/editor and storyteller supreme Brian Doyle of
Portland, Oregon (Mink RiverThe PloverMartin
Marten,
 and the forthcoming Chicago) will be the 2016
keynote author. He will be joined by Alaskan authors Kim Heacox, Eowyn Ivey,
Heather Lende, Lynn Schooler, John Straley, and Emily Wall. For more
information and to register go to 
http://nwwriterss.com/
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
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
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
Alaska
magazine
 is
seeking pitches from new and established writers. We are a publication for
Alaska enthusiasts and need a wide variety of articles. The best section to
break into the magazine is KtoB (formerly Ketchikan to Barrow), and includes
everything from cool job profiles to End of the Trail obituaries to a short
write up about an Alaska-made product. We’d also like to see queries about
culture, history, nature, interviews with Alaskans and feature articles ideas.
Review recent hard copy issues of Alaska magazine and visit 
www.alaskamagazine.com for
more about us, and then send short, descriptive pitches to freelance
contributing editor Susan Sommer at 
sbsommer@mtaonline.net.
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.
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