2016 Class Schedule
Registration for our classes and workshops continues. Description, details, and registration on our website. Feel free to contact us at 49writers@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Anchorage
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!
For questions please contact Barbara at middlerockraven@gmail.com or 907-301-5362.
CROSSCURRENTS EVENTS
March 24 at 7pm at the Anchorage Museum
49 Writers is proud to present a Crosscurrents event entitled “Bucking Tradition: Other Routes to Publishing Success.”
The publishing industry is in a constant state of change. It is increasingly difficult to find success at the big New York publishing houses, but other routes to publishing success exist. What factors do writers consider when they seek to see their work in print? Exactly what are the differences between traditional publishing, publishing with a university press, a small press, and self-publishing?
Join Martha Amore, Peter Dunlap-Shohl, and Tracy Sinclare as they discuss their experiences bringing books to print. This panel will be moderated by Lizbeth Meredith. Martha Amore writes fiction and also teaches writing at Alaska Pacific University and the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has published in numerous literary journals, and her first novella recently came out in the anthology Weathered Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas. Currently, she is working on an anthology of Alaskan LGBTQ short fiction and poetry that will be published by the University of Alaska Press, as well as a book of her own short stories. Peter Dunlap-Shohl was the editorial cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News for over a quarter of a century. Penn State University Press recently published My Degeneration, a memoir of dealing with Parkinson's Disease that Dunlap-Shohl wrote and illustrated. Tracy Sinclare is the Weekend Meteorologist for KTUU-Channel 2 News and a multi-published romance author. Since selling her first book in 2001, Sinclare has released 47 titles through publishers and recently self-publishing.
There will be time for questions following the panel as well as an opportunity to have books signed.
April 7 at 7pm at the Anchorage Museum
49 Writers is proud to present a Crosscurrents event entitled “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” featuring award-winning novelists Benjamin Percy and Don Rearden.
Ben Percy and Don Rearden will discuss writing fiction that tackles big subjects without sacrificing high tension and compelling stories. Both Percy and Rearden have written post-apocalyptic novels that speak to the underpinnings of culture and humanity. They will discuss the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive, as well as read from their work.
Benjamin Percy is the author of three novels, The Wilding, winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction, and the psychological thriller Red Moon, and The Dead Lands, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga. He is also the author of two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories.
Don Rearden is the author of The Raven’s Gift and a produced screenwriter. His films have aired on Showtime, TMC, and the Sci-FiNetwork. His novella Permafrost Heart, will be published in Weathered Edge II.
There will be time for questions following the panel as well as an opportunity to have books signed.
Events at the UAA Bookstore
Monday, March 21 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Eric Odle presents Misconceptions about Japan
Eric Odle shares his experiences and insights into understanding the Japan of today, not depicted in American media. Joining Eric will be Yasuhito Nakasato, an experienced Japanese-English interpreter.
Eric Odle has been working as a Japanese-English translator in Japan for the past three years.
Yasuhito Nakasato, born and raised in Tokyo, came to Alaska in 2010 to study art at UAA. His creative expression promotes numerous events on and off campus for the UAA community.
This event is sponsored by Borealis Translations and the UAA Campus Bookstore. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Tuesday, March 22 from 12:00pm-1:30pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Thomas H. Cox presents Money, Credit, and Strong Friends: Warren Delano, Hong Kong Merchants, and Commercial Culture in Qing Dynasty China
At this event, Thomas H. Cox explores Warren Delano’s career and the complicated relations between early American, British and Chinese merchants which formed the basis for future U.S. foreign policy towards Asia.
Dr. Thomas H. Cox is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D in history at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic.
This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot, Sports Campus West Lot.
Book Event
Tuesday, March 22 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Tony and Sally Urvina present More than God Demands
The book, More Than God Demands: Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897–1918 has recently been published by University of Alaska Press.
Anthony Urvina, whose mother was an orphan raised at one of the missions, draws on details from her life in order to present the first full history of this missionary effort. Smoothly combining personal and regional history, he tells the story of his mother’s experience amid a fascinating account of Alaska Native life and of the men and women who came to Alaska to spread the word of Christ, confident in their belief and unable to see the power of the ancient traditions they aimed to supplant.
Anthony Urvina has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sally Urvina is a retired nurse practitioner who has worked in Alaska for thirty years
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Wednesday, March 23 from 1:00pm-2:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Chef Vern Wolfram: It’s Chocolate Time
UAA Culinary Arts and Hospitality's Chef Vern Wolfram demonstrates the joy of making and eating chocolate. A variety of chocolate samples will be served as Chef Vern's apprentices join him in creating chocolate delicacies.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Book Event
Thursday, March 24 from 5:00pm-7:00 pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Stephen Haycox presents Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness
In Battleground Alaska, Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness, Stephen Haycox critiques four important environmental battles within Alaska and explains how “Alaska’s economy depends as much on absentee corporate exploitation of its natural resources, particularly oil, as it does on federal spending.” His analysis focuses on the establishment of the ANWR in the 1950s; the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s; the passage of the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act in 1980; and the struggle that culminated in the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990.
Stephen W. Haycox is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of many works including Alaska: An American Colony and Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Saturday, March 26 from 1:00pm-3:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Life & Times at the Port of Anchorage 1958-1989 with Historian J. Pennelope Goforth
J. Pennelope Goforth discusses the history of the Port of Anchorage and her project to catalog, preserve and digitize Port of Anchorage historical documents.
J. Pennelope Goforth is founder of SeaCat Explorations: Adventures in Alaska's Maritime History . She is author of Sailing the Mail in Alaska, The Maritime Years of Alaska Photographer John E. Thwaite, and is currently writing a book about the Alaska Commercial Co. business ledgers and logbooks from several villages in the Aleutians that she discovered in Seattle.
There is free parking at UAA on Saturdays.
Tuesday, March 29 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
David Holthouse presents: The Weird Turn Pro
Alaskan journalist, playwright, and documentary-maker, David Holthouse shares his work; discusses finding, reporting and writing stories; and fields questions. Everyone is invited to come and hear how writing goes When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Wednesday, March 30 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Di Gao presents Confucius’ Perspective on Morality
Di Gao is a professor in the Center for Ideological and Political Education at Northeast Normal University, China. He has translated the book, The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention by Elliot Turiel and is the author of Research on Socialist Core Values of Chinese Communist Party(People’s Publishing House, 2013),
Currently, he is a visiting scholar in the field of children’s social and moral development and education at the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley .
This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
The UAA Campus Bookstore will have the Grand Reveal Celebration Week, March 21-26with daily drink specials and activities all week long.
Local Library Events
Book Signings
NEWS
49 Writers co-founder Andromeda Romano-Lax's third novel, BEHAVE, a novel about motherhood and science set in the Jazz Age, was published Tuesday and is already picking up some early honors, including selection as an Amazon Best Book of the Month (March) and an Indie Next Pick (April). Interviews ran this week with BookPage and with Paste (a literary magazine, in their March issue devoted to the subject of sex). Andromeda wants to thank Alaska writers and readers as well as Alaska organizations like the Alaska Council on the Arts, who supported this project.
EVENTS AROUND ALASKA
SOUTHCENTRAL, MAT-SU, KENAI PENINSULA
SOUTHEAST
HOMER
Jeremy Pataky will read poems from his book, Overwinter, and Molly McDermott will perform original songs in Homer at Bunnell Street Arts Center on Saturday, March 19th, at 5pm. FREE
Jeremy's work has appeared in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, The Southeast Review, Cirque, Ice Floe, Left-Facing Bird, Anchorage Press, and some anthologies. Overwinter was published by the University of Alaska Press in the Alaska Literary Series. Jeremy earned an MFA from the University of Montana and a BA at Western Washington University. He has worked as a wilderness guide, nonprofit executive director, university instructor, and after school poetry teacher. He is a founding board member and president of 49 Writers. He splits his time between Anchorage and McCarthy, inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve near the toe of the Kennicott Glacier. | www.jeremypataky.com
Molly McDermott is a folk and experimental cellist with the Fairbanks-based psych-folk group HARM. Molly has toured Europe with the folk band June Madrona, and traveled the U.S. with the improvisational string group Kurva Choir and HARM. As a singer-songwriter, she has worked with Evan Phillips of the Whipsaws as Evan & Molly. She has recorded with artists including Kittiwake, the Reed Lakes, and Jonathan J. Bower, and has collaborated with poet Jeremy Pataky. Molly has released three studio albums and two EPs, and she is currently finishing an album of her solo work. When she is not finding new sounds to make with her cello, Molly studies migratory songbirds in the Arctic as a graduate student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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.
The new issue of Cirque will be published on June 21. The deadline for submissions is fast approaching: March 21. Send your work to cirque.submits@gmail.com
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 River, The Plover, Martin 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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