tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59967530445525115882024-02-06T19:26:50.067-09:0049 WritersCollaborative Reflections & Book News By and About Alaskan AuthorsAndromeda Romano-Laxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988887975016816552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-16263452273287679582016-09-27T12:28:00.001-08:002016-09-27T12:28:15.137-08:00New Digs for the Blog<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s been almost nine years to the day since Deb Vanasse
posted the very first post on this blog. 49 Writers was not yet a nonprofit organization
back then, we had not started offering classes and events, and the blog still had
its original name—<i>49 Writers, No Moose</i>.
Deb’s first sentence in that <a href="http://49writers.blogspot.com/2007/09/alaska-writes_30.html">first post</a>
reads “Amazing writers live in Alaska.” That is still—perhaps even
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blog started as a collaborative effort between Deb and
co-founder Andromeda Romano-Lax. They hadn’t even met face to face yet, and
probably didn’t know that almost a decade later we’d be looking back at years
of activity while looking ahead into a promising offing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost a year after the beginning, <a href="https://49writers.blogspot.com/2008/08/blogging-about-blogging-why-of-49.html">Andromeda
wrote</a> “This blog, I hope, will be an experiment in fostering another little
piece of community, with an Alaskan flavor.” I think it’s safe to say that her
hope was realized. It has built community, one that maintains a focus on quality
writing. Like many of you, I’ve seen how the blog, and the community and
programing that burgeoned from it over the years, bolsters a craft-driven
creativity among writers at all stages of development. I’ve also seen how it
connects readers with writers, and Alaskans with non-Alaskans. I’ve seen how it
connects people and sparks friendships, writing groups, inspiration, ideas, and
understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is our 2,252<sup>nd</sup> blog post to date. As of
mid-morning today, our all-time pageview history numbered 1,081,184, with
19,080 hits and counting just last month alone. People not only in Alaska but
across Canada, the U.S., and the globe read this blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps you’ve seen our <a href="http://49writers.org/">new 49
Writers website</a>. I’m pleased to report that we’re migrating this blog from
its original Blogspot habitat over to the new website. Instead of having two
different URLs—one for our blog and one for our website—they’ll live together
under the singular 49Writers.org roof. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All 2,252 of the posts made on the original platform have
been imported into the new site, so our entire archive remains searchable,
linkable, and loveable as ever. It was impossible to avoid some formatting
fracases during the transfer of existing posts, so I apologize in advance for
any untidiness on that front. I trust that we’ll have smooth and aesthetically
pleasing sailing from here forward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, we were able to re-subscribe most of you who subscribed
to the old blog, but you’ll need to confirm it via email. If you’re <i>not </i>subscribed automatically and would like
to receive new postings by email, please head over to the new blog and enter
your email address in the “Blog Subscription” field in the sidebar. You can
always unsubscribe anytime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your old links to the original blog should still function,
pointing toward the same post on the new platform. In the meantime, consider
updating your blog bookmarks to point at the new URL, which is <a href="http://49writers.org/blog">http://49writers.org/blog</a>. While you’re at
it, get in there and dig around a bit. Use the “search” function to unearth
some of the gems in that deep pile of posts. Reminisce or catch up. And if you
find yourself eager to write, or hungry to connect with other writerly folks, go
ahead and click on that “Register for Classes” link in the top left of the page,
and sign yourself up for this term’s online workshop or one of the face to face
classes in Anchorage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that’s the update! Time, now, to celebrate our first many
years, our first 2,252 blog posts, our first million+ pageviews, and all those yet
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-79205054726698469242016-09-23T11:32:00.000-08:002016-09-23T11:32:35.289-08:00Roundup for Literary Alaska<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Congrats to Eowyn Ivey, whose new novel, <i>To the Bright Edge of the World</i>, was <a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists" target="_blank">nominated for the Carnegie Medal in fiction</a>. </span></span></div>
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Humanities Forum reminds us: take part in the <b>Library of Congress National Book
Festival </b>from the comfort of your own home! Check out the live stream of
interviews with authors and other festival sessions this Saturday, September 24
from 8AM - 2PM Alaska time. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/natbookfest?source=feed_text&story_id=10153939142817817"><span class="58cl"><span style="background: white; color: #4267b2; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="58cm"><span style="background: white; color: #365899; text-decoration: none;">NatBookFest</span></span></a> | <a href="http://www.pbs.org/book-view-now/blogs/news/2016/09/08/about-the-library-of-congress-national-book-festival-1" target="_blank">more info</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Best American Poetry 2016</i> features Olena Kalytiak Davis's poem "On the Certainty of Bryan", previously published in <i>Alaska Quarterly Review</i>. Also, <i>Best American Short Stories 2016 </i>features Daniel O'Malley's story "Bridge" and Raul Palma's story "Eminent Domain" is cited as a Distinguished Story of the year. <i>Best American Essays 2016</i> features an essay by Ela Helen Harrison. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | Eowyn Ivey will be signing <i>To the Bright Edge of the World</i> at Costco on Dimond from noon until 2 PM. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, September 24, 2016, 6-7:30 PM<br />Homer Public Library, 500 Hazel Avenue, Homer, AK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a pathbreaking book, the first to anthologize stories and poems from this perspective. The collection explores the deep connection between LGBTQ Alaskans, the urban context and the wilderness that surrounds them both. Editor Martha Amore, along with contributors Teresa Sundmark, Dawnell Smith and Teeka Ballas, will give a short reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE | </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presented with Friends of the Homer Library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, September 29, 2016, 5-7 PM<br />Barnes & Noble, 200 East Northern Lights Boulevard, Anchorage, AK, 99503<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. While collecting for the first time Alaska-themed LGBTQ short fiction and poetry, for the most part the work relates to concerns all Alaskans share. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: How do you present your book to an audience so that they will buy it? This workshop will offer specific techniques to craft talking points about your book, and adapt those messages to various audiences, covering the spectrum from the inhabitants of an elevator, to book club groups, classrooms, speaking engagements, and print, web, radio and television interviews. Topics covered include creating a 30-second "elevator speech" and how to prepare for a live broadcast interview or speaking engagement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Susan McBeth</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman (AWG), Jeremy Pataky (49W)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: You wouldn’t dream of building your house without a foundation, yet counterintuitively, that’s precisely what most authors do. It’s not until after they create their book that they typically start to think about a marketing foundation to launch it successfully. In this session, Susan will share tips on how you can start building your foundation, no matter where you are at in the publishing process. Learn about some innovative ways to host your book events, whether you are setting up your very first book signing, or you are a seasoned author looking to inject new life into your book signings.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 11 am - noon<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska Writers Guild Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: conference registrants only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman, Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In an increasingly diverse world community, writers face the challenge of replicating a myriad of voices into their stories. In this session, writers will learn to create memorable, authentic characters by capturing the cadence of English as it is spoken by non-English speakers and weaving other languages into their dialogues, including strategies for replicating the nuanced speech patterns of characters from varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Participants will examine excerpts from stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and Soliven's own work. Following this discussion, writers will draft passages of dialogue inspired by writing prompts. Those comfortable with sharing their work will be encouraged to read their scenes aloud for feedback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 2:10 – 3:10 pm</u> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska Writers Guild Conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>Cooking Up Memoirs: How to Record History</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman, Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Have you ever daydreamed, while standing at the stove, of handing down family recipes to the next generation? Better yet, of recording your family’s history in the process? Don’t wait to tell your story. This sense of urgency motivated Kitty to write her award-winning memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories. During this hour-long seminar, find out how she gathered family recipes and stories, tested the dishes, organized text and photographs, and mastered the publishing and marketing processes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 6 PM</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>An Evening at the Kasbah<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Turkey Red Restaurant, 550 South Alaska St.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/debva/Dropbox/deb's%20author%20visits/author%20exchange/Anchorage%20visit/More%20Info:">More Info: </a> <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/">http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $35 | <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/event/evening-kasbah-kitty-morse-moroccan-dining-author-turkey-red-restaurant" target="_blank">tickets</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Fireside Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: David Cheezem; Barbara Hecker <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #555555;">barbara@goodbooksbadcoffee.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Savor the authentic flavors of Morocco with Casablanca-born Kitty Morse, author of <i>Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen</i>, now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books. Chef Alex will prepare a menu featuring recipes from Kitty’s book using local Alaskan products. Have dinner while Kitty entertains guests with tales of Moroccan culture and cuisine from Dar Zitoun, her family home south of Casablanca. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Fireside Books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 9 – 10:15 am (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 9 AM service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Uniting Writers and Readers for Social Justice”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 50 - 60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Susan McBeth, founder of Adventures by the Book, and Marivi Soliven, author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mango Bride</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, will discuss how they collaborated on “Saving Beverly,” a literary event that raised awareness and funds to assist immigrant victims of domestic violence, as well as the broader challenge of enabling meaningful interactions between writers and readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 11 AM service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Saving Beverly”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 80 – 90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, San Diego author Marivi Soliven wrote <i>The Mango Bride</i>. Within the context of the novel, Beverly, an immigrant wife whose dreams of a better life vanish when her marriage turns violent, is a composite of the anonymous women for whom Soliven translates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic violence cuts through all socio-economic classes. Despite their widely differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially vulnerable when their legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. During the 11 am service, Soliven will discuss the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 5:00 - 7:00pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Salon Meet and Greet; includes informal panel (20 – 30 minutes) <b>“Novel Ways to Get Noticed”</b> featuring all visiting authors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Home of Martha Amore, address forthcoming to RSVPers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Kathi Diamant, Marivi Soliven, Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: Potluck; BYOB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 25 - 35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: An informal meet-and-greet potluck event, by invitation to members of 49 Writers, Alaska SCBWI, and the Alaska Writers Guild. Visiting authors will speak as an informal panel on their success with novel ways of connecting readers with their books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Kafka’s Last Love—Dora Diamant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: UAA Philosophy Dept/Honors College/UAA Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In her book <i>Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant</i>, author Kathi Diamant explores the relationship between Franz Kafka and his companion and confidante Dora Diamant (1898-1952). It details their life in Berlin and, after his death in 1924, her passionate commitment to keep Kafka’s literary flame alive while caught in the maelstroms of fascism, communism, and the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathi Diamant is Director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University which is an ongoing international search for Kafka's missing literary treasure: 35 letters and 20 notebooks written by Kafka in the last year of his life, and confiscated from Dora by the Gestapo in Berlin 1933. Just returning from investigations in Berlin, Kathi will also share her latest findings and her extraordinary adventures through archives and history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1 – 2:30 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“The Mango Bride: A Frank Talk about Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities and the Filipino Diaspora”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: University of Alaska (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Marivi Soliven<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gabe Garcia, Rachel Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Marivi Soliven reads from her award-winning debut novel, <i>The Mango Bride</i>, inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence. Discussion will include the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 5:30 – 7 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b><span style="color: #222222;">Ten Things You Should Know about Kafka (Before You Waste the Rest of Your Life) </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mountain View Branch Library, 120 Bragaw, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Mountain View Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Virginia McLure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: <span style="color: #222222;">Who was Franz Kafka? Why is he so important? And what does Kafkaesque really mean, anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most influential and misunderstood writers of our age, Franz Kafka was a lawyer who wrote in his spare time as "a form of prayer." After his death at the age of forty in 1924, his three unfinished novels were published, and barely sold a few copies. Yet, 100 years after the publication of his most famous short story, <i>The Metamorphosis</i>, he has become an icon of modern literature. His name is invoked more than 75 times a day on the internet, and a new book has been published on Kafka somewhere in the world every 10 days for the past 15 years. Yet, many people have never heard of him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this fun and informative talk, Kathi Diamant, author of <i>Kafka's Last Love,</i> and director of the SDSU Kafka Project, outlines ten things you should know to help you understand and appreciate Franz Kafka, one of the early players in defining--and shaping--our modern world view. You will discover surprising facts to impress your friends and family, and learn how reading Kafka actually can make you smarter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 7 – 8:30 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Saving Beverly” Fundraiser for Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis (AWAIC)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship, 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $10 suggested donation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship; fundraiser for AWAIC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic violence cuts through all socio-economic classes. Despite their widely differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially vulnerable when their legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. After several women shared their own stories of domestic violence, Soliven realized that more could be done –should be done – to spare others from suffering Beverly’s fate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Saving Beverly event in Anchorage, Soliven will discuss the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence. $10 suggested donation to support Abused Women Aid in Crisis (AWAIC).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Wednesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 – 8 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Sprinkle Flowers on Your Plate”</b> for the Alaska Botanical Garden Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center Birch Room, 900 E. Benson, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buy tickets: <a href="http://alaskabg.org/programsevents/">http://alaskabg.org/programsevents/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $30 ABG members; $35 non-members<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Botanical Garden (ABG) with 49 Writers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Stacey Shriner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Description: Let award-winning cookbook author Kitty Morse take you on a fragrant excursion through the world of edible flowers. During her presentation, Kitty will share her knowledge of growing, gathering and cooking with these delectable edibles. A sampling of flowers and treats containing them, recipe handouts, and a signing of Kitty’s latest book, <i>Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes</i> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">round out the presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">ANCHORAGE | Panel
discussion about <b>Censorship, Diversity,
and YA Literature </b>at <b>Mountain View
Library. October 4, 2016. 7 pm. </b>Each year the American Library Association release’s a list of the
most challenged books of the year. Young adult books are more likely to be
challenged than any other and, according to Diversity in YA, 20% of the authors
that make the list are non-white. About half of the books that make that list
include content about non-whites, non-heterosexuals, or disabled people. Panel
will discuss exactly why diversity in young adult literature is needed and how
we can ensure that diverse literature is available in our community. Panel
discussion depend on audience participation – come prepared to ask questions
and share your opinion!<br />
Panelists will include:<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Jon Ebron – Anchorage Public Library, <span class="textexposedshow">Teen
Librarian</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Suzanne Metcalfe – School Librarian, Anchorage
School District</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Sharon Pinkney – Language Arts Teacher, Anchorage
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<span class="textexposedshow">Michael Robinson – UAA/APU Consortium Library and
Chair of the Alaska State Library Association’s Committee on Intellectual
Freedom</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Dr. Jervette R. 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”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="textexposedshow">Suzanne Metcalfe – School Librarian, Anchorage
School District</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="textexposedshow">Sharon Pinkney – Language Arts Teacher, Anchorage
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="textexposedshow">Michael Robinson – UAA/APU Consortium Library and
Chair of the Alaska State </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="textexposedshow">Dr. Jervette R. 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”.</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="textexposedshow">ANCHORAGE | <b>October 19, 2016, 7 pm at 49th State Brewpub</b>. <b>Find Your Park. Share Your Story. Storytelling Event </b>in the style of Arctic Entries. Tickets are $12 at the door or in advance at the Alaska Geographic Store at 241 North C Street. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1729608193961963/" target="_blank">Facebook event</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | Building
Fires in the Snow: Presentation, Reading<br />
Friday, <b>October 7, 2016, 5:30--7:30pm, Gulliver’s Books</b>, 3525 College Rd. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tales of the City: Writing from Alaska’s Urban
Hubs</b> |
Modern Alaska life exists in the dichotomy between what some call the Great
Land—majestic lands teeming with wildlife—and the goings-on of our mostly urban
people. How does this dichotomy affect urban Alaskans and the stories they
tell? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Join Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, editors of Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, along with featured
anthology contributors, as they explore these topics and read from work in the
anthology. Building Fires in the Snow is a path breaking anthology that opens a
window onto the diverse lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer
Alaskans. A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. FREE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Fairbanks author and wilderness guide <b>Michael Engelhard </b>will sign copies of his new book</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>American Wild: Explorations from the Grand Canyon to the Arctic Ocean</b></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and also introduce</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>Ice Bear</b></i><span style="background-color: white;">, his cultural history of the polar bear,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">on </span><span class="aqj"><b>Friday, October 7th</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">from</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><b>5-7 pm</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">at the Fairbanks Art Association’s Bear Gallery. This First</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Friday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">event will be part of the opening of the 64th Parallel exhibit, and a watercolor artist will be present as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | Fairbanks Arts Association hosts the oldest </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">literary reading series</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in the state. Every month, writers reading their own work publicly at a community meet-up where people can connect with other lovers of literature. Readings are held on the day after First Friday, </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">usually the first Saturday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of the month at </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7 pm</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Most reading are held in the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park, although occasionally in the summer (June, July, and August) the weather is beautiful reading are held outside to another spot in Pioneer Park. Upcoming: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>October: Susheila Khera </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>November</b>: <b>Nicole Stellon O'Donnell</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>December</b>: <b>Rosemary McGuire</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additional readings and events may be held, but the First Saturday Literary Reading Series is monthly at 7 pm the day after First Friday (except February). </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes I’m asked if I feel lucky. Usually, it’s after I’ve
given </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a presentation about domestic violence or the Adverse Childhood </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Experiences Study, and in the context of “Aren’t you </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">glad all the bad stuff happened when your kids were little?” </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As though prebirth and early childhood experiences are </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">any less impactful.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The truth is, I do feel lucky, but not because my kids were </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">little when their father tried to kill me. I feel lucky because I </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">survived, and so did they. I feel lucky because when he stole </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">them years later and took them to Greece, I was still a young </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">adult, with all the energy and optimism I needed to risk bringing </span></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">them home. (</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Lizbeth
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1994,
Lizbeth Meredith said goodbye to her four and six year-old daughters for a
visit with their non-custodial father, only to learn days later that they had
been kidnapped and taken to their father’s home country of Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twenty-nine
and just off food stamps, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour
budget. For the next two years—fueled by the memories of her own childhood
kidnapping—Lizbeth traded in her small life for a life more public to garner
interest in her efforts, travelling to the White House and to Greece. The
generous community of Anchorage became Lizbeth’s makeshift family—one that was
replicated by a growing number of Greeks and expats overseas who helped Lizbeth
navigate the turbulent path leading back to her daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Lizbeth
Meredith writes hauntingly about an all-too-common experience—domestic
violence, and it’s ultimate aftermath: kidnapping. In the face of a mother’s
nightmare, she summons all her resources to recover her daughters. <i>Pieces of Me</i> is a powerful testimony to
one woman’s courage and resilience in the face of seemingly insurmountable
odds, and to the unbreakable bounds between a mother and her daughters.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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story of a brave young mother’s struggle to save her precious daughters—no
matter the toll it takes on her—as she through it all carries the double-burden
of reliving her own childhood trauma.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">--Lene
Fogelberg, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller <i>Beautiful Affliction.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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member and volunteer with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s
degree in psychology. She has worked as a domestic violence advocate and a
child abuse investigator, and with at-risk teens as a juvenile probation
supervisor. A contributor to </i>A Girl’s Guide to Travelling
Alone<i> by Gemma Thompson and author of </i>When
Push Comes to Shove: How to Help When Someone You Love is Being Abused<i>, Lizbeth blogs at </i><a href="http://www.lameredith.com/"><i>www.lameredith.com</i></a><i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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My Kidnapped Daughters will be <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pieces-of-me-lizbeth-meredith/1123289828?ean=9781631528347" target="_blank">available in digital and hard copy</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0Greece39.074208 21.82431199999996432.696889999999996 11.497163499999964 45.451526 32.151460499999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-86610911538739031852016-09-21T09:20:00.000-08:002016-09-21T09:20:31.126-08:00Guest Blogger Mary Catharine Martin | What Makes a Fascinating — or Endearing — Character?<div class="MsoNormal">
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of Burning Love, </i>by Louise Erdrich. The book centers around a man named
Jack Mauser, the women who love or have loved him, and their families. Jack is
a womanizer—a woman-lover, one might say, as he approaches all his encounters
with as pure a heart as a womanizer could. One of his (successive) wives is an
academic who follows her desires both to seduce an underage student and live in
a convent. Another is a precise, controlling dentist who loves dogs. One of
them is an accountant who, when she married Jack, was already married to a man
in prison for life. Another met Jack when an electric shock deflated her lungs,
he gave her imperfect but life-saving mouth to mouth, and she sued him. Two of
them become each other’s lovers. All of them are fascinating. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Interesting characters are what drive interesting fiction.
They are the still or whirling center of a storm frequently of their own
creation. It’s a testament to Louise Erdrich’s skill that while these
characters do things that may seem cruel or petty, we can’t help but love them.
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I’m teaching a creative writing class on character at the
University of Alaska Southeast next spring, and character is something I’ve
been thinking a lot about. What is it that makes a character interesting? And,
as a separate question, what is it that makes us care about them? Does one result
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A few years ago, I found myself following a discussion about
the novel <i>The Woman Upstairs</i>. An
interviewer had asked author Claire Messud about the protagonist of the book,
Nora. “I wouldn’t want to be friends with Nora, would you? “ the interviewer
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Messud answered “<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For heaven’s sake, what kind of
question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you
want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus?
Oscar Wao?…. If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read
to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘is this a
potential friend for me?’ but ‘is this character alive?’” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I was then writing <i>The
One that Ran Away, </i>the novel I’m currently sending out to agents, and I was
struggling with the character of Willow, a narcissistic, self-destructive artist.
Willow was selfish and cruel. To me, she was also fascinating—but at least one
reader told me she had difficulty even getting through Willow’s sections, she
disliked her so much. For a while, I felt justified by Messud’s answer. Willow
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The characters I find the most interesting have conflicting
traits, and they are conflicted, themselves. They want something, even if what
they really want is different from what they think they want. They feel. They
act. Many of the characters in Messud’s list feel love. They struggle with that
love and how it manifests in the real world. In Messud’s novel Nora loves a man
and a woman, a couple, who end up betraying her. Love makes people vulnerable;
both vulnerability and love make them more human, even if their love is a
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The Willow of my earlier drafts felt. She acted. I didn’t,
however, make clear her love for her daughter and how that love conflicted with
her more selfish desires. I don’t think it’s a requirement that readers like
characters as they like their friends, or that characters be endearing, but I
do think love, even love of oneself, makes for a more fully rounded character—and
provides for a wealth of potential internal conflict, which makes a character
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;"><i>Mary Catharine Martin is a Juneau writer currently sending out her book, </i>The One that Ran Away</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;">. It interweaves the stories of three generations of runaways and spans rural Louisiana in the 1930s to modern-day Las Vegas and Southeast Alaska. </i></span></div>
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<br />49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-67721595834156207512016-09-20T10:12:00.001-08:002016-09-20T10:13:16.872-08:00Kathi Diamant | Dispatch from Berlin: You’ve Got To Be There<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathia Diamant is visiting Anchorage <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182699" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sept. 24 - 28, 2016</span></span> through an author exchange program sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the AWG conference on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182700" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday, Sept. 24</span></span> and also at a members-only salon event on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182701" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday, Sept. 25 (details <a href="http://49writers.org/special-events-and-salons" target="_blank">here</a>). </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hoped to write this blog post from Berlin in advance my upcoming Alaska visit to announce the mystical, magical new developments in my search for a missing literary treasure. And something truly amazing did happen today. It’s the best possible news, outside of finding it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For almost twenty years, I’ve led the search to recover the lost, last writings of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">literary giant Franz Kafka</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. My search actually began two decades earlier, in 1971, in a German language literature class, when my teacher interrupted our translation of “</span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Metamorphosis</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” to ask if I were related to Dora Diamant. He told me that Dora and Kafka were very much in love, that Kafka died in her arms, and that she burned his work. A fellow student behind me echoed what I’d been thinking. He whispered: “Not enough of it."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Throughout my lifelong search to solve the mysteries surrounding the remarkable young Polish Jewish woman who gave Kafka the happiest year of his life, I have traveled in her footsteps, becoming her biographer and rewriting her into history. Along the way, I learned to love Kafka. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Diamant" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dora Diamant</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with whom I share the coincidence of a last name, was a mysterious and dark figure when I took my first research trip to find her. She haunted me, and finally, I had to know what happened to her after Kafka’s death (of tuberculosis, at age 40 in 1924). On my first mission to find Dora in 1985, I went to Prague where Kafka lived and is buried, then to the small sanatorium outside Vienna where he died, and on to Israel to check out the Diamant genealogy at Hebrew University. Since then, I have travelled to these and many other places in the world, from Poland to Germany, to the Soviet Union, to Israel, France, and England, where she died in 1952, three weeks to the day after I was born. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the three decades since then, I found the traces of Dora’s remarkable life through the people who knew her, and through the discoveries of her lost letters, diaries, photographs and Gestapo and Comintern files. I was able to find her lost family members and reunite them when we placed a stone on Dora’s unmarked grave. One of the most important discoveries about Dora was that she didn’t burn Kafka’s work, as my teacher said. Instead, Dora kept a secret collection of Kafka’s writings, 35 letters he had written to her and 20 notebooks he kept in the last year of his life. These papers were confiscated from Dora by the Gestapo in 1933. But scholars always hoped they would be found. And indeed, they might. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1996, I started the </span><a href="http://www.kafkaproject.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kafka Project at San Diego State University</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to conduct and record the official international search to recover this missing literary treasure. In 1998, I spent four months in Berlin, scouring the Nazi and Gestapo archives until I found the proof of the confiscation and the office responsible for receiving it. Since then, incrementally, we’ve made progress, tracing the papers through Germany to Poland to Russia, and then back again to Germany. In 2013, we learned of an uncatalogued archive dating back to the Third Reich, which could contain this material. After a series of meetings with local scholars and experts, we made a plan. In 2014, nothing had moved forward, so I returned to Berlin to continue the search. Two years passed, and nothing happened, and no progress was made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I returned this month to Berlin. After two years of writing to him, without an answer, yesterday I received a telephone call from our “deep throat” archivist in the German Federal Archives, who agreed to meet with me and Dr. Hans Koch, the leading Kafka scholar in Germany on Kafka’s letters, with new information. We met today, renewed the approach to the archive, and are moving forward with the help of two German universities who have signed on to take over the research. Now two major academic institutions are taking over the work. They believe it is possible we will find this missing chapter to literary history. If I had stayed home, nothing would still be happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">All writers are also researchers. Even if you aren’t looking to find the traces of someone who once lived, as a writer, if at all possible, you should go to the place you are writing about. Even if you think you know the place, if it’s burned into your memory, you still have to go back. If you have never been there, and you can physically make the trip, you must go. This is especially true if place is an important part of your story. It’s not just to fully describe it using all of your senses, but to allow magic and coincidences to take place. To let the story, true or fiction, unfold in the place it happened, or is happening, or will happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course this isn’t always possible. There are many excellent excuses. The place may not exist anymore. Or for myriad reasons travel is impossible. Many say they cannot afford it, which is the poorest excuse of all. But if you can’t go, I hope you’ll find other ways to replicate the experience. Read fully, watch films and videos, listen to the music, do what you can. But for those are able to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">travel, go. Now. Charge it, do what you must do. But go. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By being in the place where one’s story takes place, miraculous events occur, which wouldn’t happen, sitting comfortably at your desk. I’m living proof. I’m leaving Berlin tomorrow, and will be in Anchorage on Friday. I’ll be presenting on Saturday, Sept 24, at the </span><a href="http://writing.shawguides.com/alaskawritersguild" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alaska Writers Guild Conference</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and will be giving two additional talks, on </span><a href="http://anchoragelibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=11328&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2016/09/08" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday Sept 27 at Mountain View Library</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and on </span><a href="https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/calendars/master-calendar.cshtml#/?i=3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monday, Sept 26 at the UAA Bookstore</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, about why you should read Kafka, and the story of my search for his last love. I hope to see you there! </span></div>
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com4Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany52.54114 13.44009000000005552.502508999999996 13.359409000000054 52.579771 13.520771000000055tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-42270924732341347212016-09-19T10:00:00.000-08:002016-09-19T10:00:41.513-08:00Bree Kessler | The Perfect Pitch is All in Your Head<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Alaska</i> website, successfully pitched me an article. I shared with this
woman, an objectively superior writer and MFA graduate, that her published
article was one of my favorite pieces to read and I wondered why she didn’t do
more paid freelance work. She replied, “I just don’t know how to sell myself
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necessary with crafting a pitch. The writer must convince herself that she is
the authority, the expert, the best possible person to write the proposed
story. One might need to be a bit of a social worker of the self – a cognitive
behavior therapist – to achieve the notion that you, the freelancer, are the
foremost expert on “best hairstyles for cats” or “how to pack for the
backcountry entirely with Costco items.” As silly as it seems, you must
convince yourself that one does have a PhD in cat hairstyles or Costco shopping
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believes that everyone has valuable and numerous story ideas, but a good pitch
is very different than a good story. The pitch succinctly summarizes what you
will share with the reader, why the story is not only appropriate, but a
must-have, for the given publication, and again, why <i>you</i> are the very best person to tell the story. And when you get
better at these key factors, you can add to the list: why you should get paid
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who construct different looking structures out of the very same pack of Legos,
a savvy pitcher can finesse the same story idea for completely unrelated
publications. For example, a few years ago I was making the rounds pitching a
story about my experience as a reader for the Advance Placement (AP) exam in
the subject of psychology. I pitched this story to <i>New York</i> magazine as
a series of confessions by AP readers. <i>Good</i> magazine received a pitch
that was an exposé style reveal of how schools that send teachers to the AP
reading are privy to insider knowledge that benefit their students. I sent <i>McSweeney’s</i>
<i>Quarterly</i> a pitch that was a comical
account of eating in the cafeteria with the other AP readers. Same general
story – three different pitches – none sent simultaneously in order to abide by
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little disheartening about the pitching process. For some, manipulating a story
to meet the needs of a publication can feel really soulless. For others, like
myself, I just want to get my (or “the”) idea out to the public and I’ll do
what it takes to get it there and to get paid. And then there is the waiting
game… those moment (or weeks or months) between sending out your pitch to the
editor and waiting for your inbox to ping back with a response. It’s like
waiting for a college acceptance letter weekly as an adult. But when (and if) a
positive response does arrive it’s shear elation. I’ll never forget hearing
back from the <i>New York</i> magazine editor. I had to do everything in my
power not to instantly respond to his, “We think that idea is hilarious!” email
and instead, as one would do after receiving an email from an ex-lover, to wait
an hour before writing back to accept his story terms. Note, I’ll save you the
time in googling the article: it never got published. Sometimes a good pitch
comes at the wrong time in an editorial calendar. But a savvier pitcher than I
was in my early career knows these calendars ahead of time and can suggest
stories to meet the editor’s needs. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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true craftsman with a healthy self-esteem and a working knowledge of the
business. A good pitch may get you in the door, but good writing gets you
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bree’s three hour 49
Writers class, </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pitch Perfect: Fundamentals of the Freelance
Pitch<i>, is Saturday, October 1<sup>st</sup>,
2-5 pm in Anchorage at the Alaska Humanities Forum. $45 members / $55
nonmembers. <a href="http://49writers.org/class-catalog">Learn more and
register here</a>. <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Bree Kessler is a #SAHM
(stay-at-home-mom) of <a href="http://tiny.park.ranger/">@tiny.park.ranger</a>, laid-off editor, adjunct professor of
community engagement, and a trained, but not practicing, social worker</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">. Her newly revised travel guidebook </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Big-Island-Hawaii-Including/dp/163121280X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474155532&sr=8-1&keywords=moon+big+island" target="_blank">Moon: Big Island of Hawaii</a></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">hit bookshelves earlier this month. Learn more about her writing
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HOMER | Saturday, September 17th from noon-3 PM. Happy Birthday Party for the Homer Public Library! Over one million people have visited in its first decade. Celebrate with live music, dessert, and surprises. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1783875025189644/" target="_blank">More</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">KODIAK | </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the first Galley Tables storytelling show of the season is coming up. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">They occur on Friday nights every month from October through May.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Sign yourself up (or a friend) to tell a story. <a href="https://galleytables.com/" target="_blank">Details</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | Anchorage essayist and author </span><b style="background-color: transparent;">Bill Sherwonit</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will teach a </span><b style="background-color: transparent;">12-week nature and travel writing class</b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> beginning September 21st in the Sierra Club office downtown. Participants in this workshop-style class will explore and refine their own writing styles, with an emphasis on the personal essay form. The class will also read and discuss works by some of America’s finest nature and travel writers. $240. To sign up for this Wednesday night class (7 to 9:30 pm), or for m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ore information, contact Sherwonit at 245-0283 or akgriz@hotmail.com.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, September 17, 2016, 4-5 PM<br />Fireside Books, 720 S Alaska St # B, Palmer, AK<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry</i> is a pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While collecting for the first time Alaska-themed LGBTQ short fiction and poetry, for the most part the work relates to concerns all Alaskans share. Editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with contributor Teeka Ballas, will sign books and give a short reading. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BFITS DINNER, PANEL DISCUSSION, READING & BOOK SIGNING</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writing Against Stereotypes: Dinner and Artist Talk</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Join editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with contributor Teeka Ballas, for dinner at Turkey Red. They will share their work and discuss the process of writing a different Alaska. </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a pathbreaking anthology that opens a window onto the diverse lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Alaskans. From quotidian urban outings to intimate encounters with breathtaking natural beauty, the collection shatters stereotypes to reveal a little seen side of the state. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, September 22, 2016, 5-7 PM<br />University of Alaska Anchorage Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage, AK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Join editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with contributors Susanna Mishler, Mei Mei Evans and others, as they share their work and discuss the process of writing about the Alaska LGBTQ community. </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. How does the anthology reveal different aspects of the Alaska LGBTQ community? How can collaborative projects such as </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Arctic Entries</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> open windows onto little-seen aspects of our state? Can literature empower a community or does it stand outside political and social movements? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a pathbreaking book, the first to anthologize stories and poems from this perspective. The collection explores the deep connection between LGBTQ Alaskans, the urban context and the wilderness that surrounds them both. Editor Martha Amore, along with contributors Teresa Sundmark, Dawnell Smith and Teeka Ballas, will give a short reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE | </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presented with Friends of the Homer Library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, September 29, 2016, 5-7 PM<br />Barnes & Noble, 200 East Northern Lights Boulevard, Anchorage, AK, 99503<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. While collecting for the first time Alaska-themed LGBTQ short fiction and poetry, for the most part the work relates to concerns all Alaskans share. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of an author exchange facilitated by Susan McBeth at <b>Adventures by the Book </b>in partnership with 49 Writers, Inc., four authors will present programs of interest to writers in Anchorage Sept. 24 - 28: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 9:50 -10:50 am</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska Writers Guild Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>Best Practices to Present Your Book<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kathi Diamant</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: conference registrants only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman (AWG), Jeremy Pataky (49W)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: How do you present your book to an audience so that they will buy it? This workshop will offer specific techniques to craft talking points about your book, and adapt those messages to various audiences, covering the spectrum from the inhabitants of an elevator, to book club groups, classrooms, speaking engagements, and print, web, radio and television interviews. Topics covered include creating a 30-second "elevator speech" and how to prepare for a live broadcast interview or speaking engagement. </span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 11 am - noon<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>Strategic Event Planning – How to Market Your Book, Building an Author Foundation<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Susan McBeth</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman (AWG), Jeremy Pataky (49W)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: You wouldn’t dream of building your house without a foundation, yet counterintuitively, that’s precisely what most authors do. It’s not until after they create their book that they typically start to think about a marketing foundation to launch it successfully. In this session, Susan will share tips on how you can start building your foundation, no matter where you are at in the publishing process. Learn about some innovative ways to host your book events, whether you are setting up your very first book signing, or you are a seasoned author looking to inject new life into your book signings.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 11 am - noon<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska Writers Guild Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>Native Tongues: Blending the Other into Dialogue<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman, Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In an increasingly diverse world community, writers face the challenge of replicating a myriad of voices into their stories. In this session, writers will learn to create memorable, authentic characters by capturing the cadence of English as it is spoken by non-English speakers and weaving other languages into their dialogues, including strategies for replicating the nuanced speech patterns of characters from varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Participants will examine excerpts from stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and Soliven's own work. Following this discussion, writers will draft passages of dialogue inspired by writing prompts. Those comfortable with sharing their work will be encouraged to read their scenes aloud for feedback.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 2:10 – 3:10 pm</span></u><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska Writers Guild Conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>Cooking Up Memoirs: How to Record History</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman, Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Have you ever daydreamed, while standing at the stove, of handing down family recipes to the next generation? Better yet, of recording your family’s history in the process? Don’t wait to tell your story. This sense of urgency motivated Kitty to write her award-winning memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories. During this hour-long seminar, find out how she gathered family recipes and stories, tested the dishes, organized text and photographs, and mastered the publishing and marketing processes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, 6 PM</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $35 | <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/event/evening-kasbah-kitty-morse-moroccan-dining-author-turkey-red-restaurant" target="_blank">tickets</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Fireside Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: David Cheezem; Barbara Hecker <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #555555;">barbara@goodbooksbadcoffee.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Savor the authentic flavors of Morocco with Casablanca-born Kitty Morse, author of <i>Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen</i>, now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books. Chef Alex will prepare a menu featuring recipes from Kitty’s book using local Alaskan products. Have dinner while Kitty entertains guests with tales of Moroccan culture and cuisine from Dar Zitoun, her family home south of Casablanca. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Fireside Books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 9 – 10:15 am (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 9 AM service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Uniting Writers and Readers for Social Justice”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 50 - 60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Susan McBeth, founder of Adventures by the Book, and Marivi Soliven, author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mango Bride</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, will discuss how they collaborated on “Saving Beverly,” a literary event that raised awareness and funds to assist immigrant victims of domestic violence, as well as the broader challenge of enabling meaningful interactions between writers and readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 11 AM service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Saving Beverly”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, San Diego author Marivi Soliven wrote <i>The Mango Bride</i>. Within the context of the novel, Beverly, an immigrant wife whose dreams of a better life vanish when her marriage turns violent, is a composite of the anonymous women for whom Soliven translates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic violence cuts through all socio-economic classes. Despite their widely differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially vulnerable when their legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. During the 11 am service, Soliven will discuss the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 5:00 - 7:00pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Salon Meet and Greet; includes informal panel (20 – 30 minutes) <b>“Novel Ways to Get Noticed”</b> featuring all visiting authors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Home of Martha Amore, address forthcoming to RSVPers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Kathi Diamant, Marivi Soliven, Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info:</span> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://49writers.org/special-events-and-salons</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: Potluck; BYOB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: 49 Writers, Alaska Writers Guild, and Alaska SCBWI current members only <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: 49 Writers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 25 - 35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: An informal meet-and-greet potluck event, by invitation to members of 49 Writers, Alaska SCBWI, and the Alaska Writers Guild. Visiting authors will speak as an informal panel on their success with novel ways of connecting readers with their books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Monday, Sept. 26, 5 – 7 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Kafka’s Last Love—Dora Diamant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: public<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: UAA Philosophy Dept/Honors College/UAA Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: John Mouracade, Rachel Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In her book <i>Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant</i>, author Kathi Diamant explores the relationship between Franz Kafka and his companion and confidante Dora Diamant (1898-1952). It details their life in Berlin and, after his death in 1924, her passionate commitment to keep Kafka’s literary flame alive while caught in the maelstroms of fascism, communism, and the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathi Diamant is Director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University which is an ongoing international search for Kafka's missing literary treasure: 35 letters and 20 notebooks written by Kafka in the last year of his life, and confiscated from Dora by the Gestapo in Berlin 1933. Just returning from investigations in Berlin, Kathi will also share her latest findings and her extraordinary adventures through archives and history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1 – 2:30 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“The Mango Bride: A Frank Talk about Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities and the Filipino Diaspora”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: University of Alaska (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Marivi Soliven<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: UAA Public Health, UAA Bookstore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gabe Garcia, Rachel Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Marivi Soliven reads from her award-winning debut novel, <i>The Mango Bride</i>, inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence. Discussion will include the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 5:30 – 7 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b><span style="color: #222222;">Ten Things You Should Know about Kafka (Before You Waste the Rest of Your Life) </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mountain View Branch Library, 120 Bragaw, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Mountain View Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Virginia McLure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: <span style="color: #222222;">Who was Franz Kafka? Why is he so important? And what does Kafkaesque really mean, anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most influential and misunderstood writers of our age, Franz Kafka was a lawyer who wrote in his spare time as "a form of prayer." After his death at the age of forty in 1924, his three unfinished novels were published, and barely sold a few copies. Yet, 100 years after the publication of his most famous short story, <i>The Metamorphosis</i>, he has become an icon of modern literature. His name is invoked more than 75 times a day on the internet, and a new book has been published on Kafka somewhere in the world every 10 days for the past 15 years. Yet, many people have never heard of him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this fun and informative talk, Kathi Diamant, author of <i>Kafka's Last Love,</i> and director of the SDSU Kafka Project, outlines ten things you should know to help you understand and appreciate Franz Kafka, one of the early players in defining--and shaping--our modern world view. You will discover surprising facts to impress your friends and family, and learn how reading Kafka actually can make you smarter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27, 7 – 8:30 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Saving Beverly” Fundraiser for Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis (AWAIC)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship, 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup> Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $10 suggested donation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship; fundraiser for AWAIC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.64px;">Description: </span><span style="line-height: 16.64px;">Inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, San Diego author Marivi Soliven wrote <i>The Mango Bride</i>. Within the context of the novel, Beverly, an immigrant wife whose dreams of a better life vanish when her marriage turns violent, is a composite of the anonymous women for whom Soliven translates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic violence cuts through all socio-economic classes. Despite their widely differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially vulnerable when their legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. After several women shared their own stories of domestic violence, Soliven realized that more could be done –should be done – to spare others from suffering Beverly’s fate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.64px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Saving Beverly event in Anchorage, Soliven will discuss the expanded protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence. $10 suggested donation to support Abused Women Aid in Crisis (AWAIC).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Wednesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 – 8 pm</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Sprinkle Flowers on Your Plate”</b> for the Alaska Botanical Garden Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP Energy Center Birch Room, 900 E. Benson, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More Info: http://alaskabg.org/programsevents/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $30 ABG members; $35 non-members<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Botanical Garden (ABG) with 49 Writers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Stacey Shriner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Let award-winning cookbook author Kitty Morse take you on a fragrant excursion through the world of edible flowers. During her presentation, Kitty will share her knowledge of growing, gathering and cooking with these delectable edibles. A sampling of flowers and treats containing them, recipe handouts, and a signing of Kitty’s latest book, Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with recipes (<a href="http://www.chefspress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">www.chefspress.com</span></a>.) round out the presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | Tickets are selling for the Anchorage Concert Association's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">David Sedaris </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">appea</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rance on <b>May 13, 2017. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;">David Sedaris is one of America’s preeminent humor writers. Wielding sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness with great skill. One of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today, Sedaris is returning to Anchorage with all new stories. His original radio pieces can be heard on “This American Life,” and he has seven million books in print, including “Naked,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and his most recent, “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.” The San Francisco Chronicle says “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” <a href="https://alaskapac.centertix.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1636" target="_blank">Buy tickets here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Fairbanks author
and wilderness guide <b>Michael Engelhard </b>will sign copies of his new book</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>American Wild: Explorations from
the Grand Canyon to the Arctic Ocean</b></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and
also introduce</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>Ice Bear</b></i><span style="background-color: white;">,
his cultural history of the polar bear,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">on
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | This year's conference is a partnership between Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. This all-day event takes place at the <span style="color: #221e1f;">BP Energy +<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference Center and includes </span>keynotes and panels, as well as writing craft, marketing, traditional publishing, self publishing, children's literature, illustration tracks. <span style="color: #221e1f;">Sign up for optional Intensives or Roundtable Critiques, or take advantage of One-on-One Manuscript Excerpt Reviews. Early bird discount extended until July 31st at only $95 for AWG/49 Writers/SCBWI members or $145 for non-members. More info and <a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference">registration here</a>. </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 1.5pt;"><span style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;">In early August, the Alaska State Council on the Arts will seek nominations for the </span></span><strong style="text-indent: 0px;">2017 Governor's Awards for the Arts</strong><span style="text-indent: 0px;">, as well as the next </span><strong style="text-indent: 0px;">Alaska State Writer Laureate.</strong></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The deadline for nominations for Governor's Awards for the Arts is</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1986609640" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 15, 2016</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and nominations for State Writer Laureate will be accepted through </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1986609641" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 3, 2016</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, the categories for the Governor's Awards for the Arts are: </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arts Education, Individual Artist, Arts Org</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><span style="font-size: small;">Alaska Native Arts</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities ceremony will be held in Juneau on Thursday, January 26, 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visit ASCA's website </span><a alt="https://education.alaska.gov/aksca/govawards.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZHwGgmT-NcJcLYLMDmuHHdZIMpyK5-fagORyn1EZItawjmbmbehxktJGM04mBwynAWMJ5tSgzuXMkY6OXmoXs0Isi4SsSBNWuAS6Ik-yVr-AUyfkooRLtTxHpK1JVbqH_b-GCjTcJ8ro6tjElJ9dCOw%3D%3D%26c%3D_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw%3D%3D%26ch%3D6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1469132325491000&usg=AFQjCNHt4ai0HrGawWsff7wnVZQ13R3KCA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZHwGgmT-NcJcLYLMDmuHHdZIMpyK5-fagORyn1EZItawjmbmbehxktJGM04mBwynAWMJ5tSgzuXMkY6OXmoXs0Isi4SsSBNWuAS6Ik-yVr-AUyfkooRLtTxHpK1JVbqH_b-GCjTcJ8ro6tjElJ9dCOw==&c=_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw==&ch=6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for information about last year's Governor's Awardees, and </span><a alt="https://education.alaska.gov/aksca/literature.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZkdd-G-rO_8JHFDyJV4-Qd7zYMGejhTQXkJUdWUJYIZyn5K24XlZ7R0ufNPB10xQm5XoTO42llyk1YpkuokPYPk4uAFTSEhRZHqNRpu7y7KrhVDLwGIlUqR0nG6gxRB1yPbxUk894VXBg97NzZA7QLw%3D%3D%26c%3D_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw%3D%3D%26ch%3D6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1469132325491000&usg=AFQjCNEdT5LEkaQVyzG4lUO2_QSoXW8VYA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZkdd-G-rO_8JHFDyJV4-Qd7zYMGejhTQXkJUdWUJYIZyn5K24XlZ7R0ufNPB10xQm5XoTO42llyk1YpkuokPYPk4uAFTSEhRZHqNRpu7y7KrhVDLwGIlUqR0nG6gxRB1yPbxUk894VXBg97NzZA7QLw==&c=_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw==&ch=6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the Alaska State Writer Laureate program.</span></span><br />
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-56322767798196639132016-09-14T06:30:00.000-08:002016-09-15T08:57:21.462-08:00Guest Blogger Mary Catharine Martin | Giant cockroaches will destroy us (or: a few stories about failure and encouragement)<br />
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young girl and her family fleeing Earth because giant, intelligent cockroaches
were taking over the world. Our class sat on the rug around our teacher, Mrs.
Braaten, as she read the first page out loud, yelling the dialogue attributed
to the cockroaches; I had handwritten their speech in all capital letters four
ruled lines tall.</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can’t remember
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cockroach: “RUN, HUMAN! YOU ARE TRAPPED!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Screams, despair. Cockroaches pilot the ship to a new
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another story: The summer after fourth or fifth grade, I
decided to write a novel and then stared, feeling blank, at the paper in my white
three-ring binder. I wrote a single page and avoided that binder for the rest
of the summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Encouragement. Fear of failure. I, like many writers, have
stories featuring both. Both come from places of truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my mid-twenties, after returning from two years in Japan,
I decided to go to San Francisco to do what I’d always wanted to do: write a
novel. I spent months huddled in a tiny apartment beneath a bridge in Soho. I
lived on charred microwave popcorn and the occasional kindness of friends. I went
for long, solo runs along the water, stopping as I walked back to my apartment
to pick up a free copy of <i>The Onion</i>,
my only source of news. I also made a few questionable decisions, one of which
was not reading over my novel once, afraid I wouldn’t like it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I got brave enough, I realized the truth: it was awful.
I don’t think I ever knew what it was about. (“It’s not <i>about </i>something. It follows <i>themes,”
</i>I’d tell people when they asked.) There was a girl. There was a brother. There
was a lot of unrealistic dialogue. There was a character who may have been
mentally ill or may have been wise in a way the world wasn’t yet evolved enough
to understand; it wasn’t clear. Nothing was clear except that the book was
appalling. I deleted it from my computer. I threw away the copy I’d printed. To
those of you that read it: I’m still sorry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The awfulness of that book actually strengthened my resolve
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first time I didn’t hate my fiction I was living in
Gastineau Apartments in Juneau, which have since burned down. I didn’t have any
furniture — since I was applying to MFA programs, I figured it would just be a
waste of money and time. I did have stacks of books, a nest of blankets on the
floor, and a preference for writing while lying flat on my stomach, listening
to a woman who sounded like the Wicked Witch of the West as she cackled beneath
my fourth floor window in the early hours of the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote a story based in Delcambre, Louisiana, a town near
the place I’d lived for the last year and a half. It was about an old woman
with a secret she can’t bear to tell her son and all the ways that secret
complicates their lives. I finished it, and then I read it over. I remember
lying there, stunned, as the wicked witch cackled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had written fiction that wasn’t horrible. What a novel
sensation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember hearing about the theory of “steps” a while back,
when I was learning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spanish. Progress doesn’t really happen gradually, at least
not in a way that you can see. Instead, you feel you’ve plateaued for a while.
Then, whoosh — up you go. All the sudden you understand a few jokes. You
can join a conversation instead of following along a sentence behind. You start
dreaming in the language you’re learning. I think progress in most worthy long-term
endeavors happens the same way, writing included. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjkg4WrwDjjqzLs_0UAfB6ydwW152ih4ruAW9E6mIIWdRtJIgy26w9fbMJINfBOQ1fekusKiZjIrwNwDUOG5OrvzQpYDZuVk4pYH34SHo16twBs247g5CpRtnphfZF8opsjvv6kGFLxTr/s1600/dr.jekyl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjkg4WrwDjjqzLs_0UAfB6ydwW152ih4ruAW9E6mIIWdRtJIgy26w9fbMJINfBOQ1fekusKiZjIrwNwDUOG5OrvzQpYDZuVk4pYH34SHo16twBs247g5CpRtnphfZF8opsjvv6kGFLxTr/s200/dr.jekyl.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As writers, we balance two very different stories: the
knowledge that we may fall short and the encouragement that helps us keep going.
As the writer Saul Bellow advised, we just have to fail better. I love that
advice, and the way it turns failure into a kind of triumph — I may have
failed, but this time I did it <i>better.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cockroach story, of course, is the exception. The
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Photos by Mary Catharine Martin: the two sides of the Golden Gate Bridge on a half-cloudy day in San Francisco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;"><i>Mary Catharine Martin is a Juneau writer currently sending out her book, </i>The One that Ran Away</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;">. It interweaves the stories of three generations of runaways and spans rural Louisiana in the 1930s to modern-day Las Vegas and Southeast Alaska. </i></span></div>
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-69534765875400707672016-09-13T06:00:00.000-08:002016-09-13T09:10:52.102-08:00Marivi Soliven | Blending the Other into Dialogue <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Marivi Soliven is visiting Anchorage <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182699" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sept. 24 - 28</span></span> through an author exchange program sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the AWG conference on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182700" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday, Sept. 24</span></span> and also at a members-only salon event on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182701" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday, Sept. 25.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Candlewick
Press recently postponed the release of e. E. Charlton-Trujillo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">’s young
adult novel </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When We Was Fierce</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> because
of what the publisher termed “…the dramatic contrast between pre-publication
reviews …[and] …many of the social media and blog responses…” Closer
examination of </span><a href="https://campbele.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/guest-review-when-we-was-fierce/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one
blogger’s response</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> reveals a stinging critique of the dialogue which Charlton-Trujillo
created for the novel’s African American characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although
pre-publication reviews praised this novel about an African American gang,
author Jennifer Baker described Charlton-Trujillo’s dialogue as “…constructed
Ebonics… deeply offensive and extremely hard to read without rereading not for
interest but for comprehension.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This
is an extreme example of what happens when a writer gets carried away writing “authentic”
dialogue for racially diverse characters. When accents are handled skillfully,
dialogue brings a character alive more effectively than any amount of physical description.
Done poorly, dialogue turns that character into a caricature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stories
peopled by characters of many different ethnicities is not merely a publishing
trend but a reflection of the multi-cultural communities in which we live. The
writer’s challenge lies in composing dialogue which captures the nuances of a
non-English speaking character without hitting the reader over the head with
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pulitzer-Prize
winning author Jhumpa Lahiri does this by adjusting her character’s syntax — the
arrangement of words in a sentence — in a scene from her short story, “When Mr.
Pirzada Came to Dine”<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="border: none; color: black;">[1]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>One
day in October Mr. Pirzada asked upon arrival, “What are these large orange
vegetables on people’s doorsteps? A type of squash?”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>Pumpkins,” my mother replied. “Lilia, remind me
to pick one up at the supermarket.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>And the purpose? It indicates what?”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>You make a jack-o’-lantern,” I said, grinning
ferociously. “Like this, to scare people away.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>I see,” Mr. Pirzada said, grinning back. “Very
useful.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
exchange suggests that Professor Pirzada learned English at school, and thus
speaks it with a formality not used by the average American when discussing
pumpkins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another
way to signify otherness is through diction or word choice. In this scene from
<span lang="IT">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</span>’s story “On Monday of Last Week, ”<sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="border: none; color: black;">[2]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup> her character’s
diction demonstrates how a word takes on entirely different connotations in
different cultures:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“Maybe
you could teach Josh a Nigerian language?… He’s very quiet, very sweet, a great
kid, but I’m concerned there aren't any bi-racial kids like him at our school
or in our neighborhood.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>Bi-racial?” Kamara asked.</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Neil</i><i>’s cough was delicate. “My wife is
African-American and I’m white, Jewish.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>Oh, he’s half-caste.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>There was a pause and Neil</i><i>’s voice came back,
thicker. “Please don’t use that word.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earlier
in the story, Kamara, the babysitter, had mused about how, in Nigeria, “half-caste”
children were blessed with “…light-skinned good looks, trips abroad to visit
white grandparents.” Her subsequent conversation with his father highlights the
dramatic difference between their interpretations of this word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
learned much about composing dialogue from both these authors when writing my
novel, where class, not race, defines the way characters speak. In this excerpt
from <i>The Mango Bride</i><i><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><b><sup><span style="border: none; color: black;">[3]</span></sup></b><!--[endif]--></sup></i><i>, </i>Amparo, a well-born
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“You
fought in World War II didn’t you? Don’t you get veteran’s benefits?” Amparo
was clutching at rhetorical straws now, working off her scant knowledge of
American history.</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>HA! Yes, I am a veteran, and yes, I deserve
veteran’s benefits.” Manong Del’s voice rose as he waved an angry arm. “But do
I GET those benefits? No!” A vein dissecting the old man’s forehead pulsed like
a brown root. He sat rigidly erect in bed, more enraged than Amparo had ever
seen him. “Why don't I get veteran’s benefits? Why, you ask? Because that
gaddamn Harry Truman signed the Rescission Act after the war. That’s why I don’t
get no gaddam veteran’s benefits….”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
this case, I used a phonetic misspelling of “Goddamn” to capture the
over-determined accent that many older Filipinos put on when speaking English. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like to practice writing
dialogue for a multicultural cast of characters, consider attending the <i>Native Tongues:
Blending the Other into Dialogue </i>workshop I’m teaching at the Alaska Writers
Guild Conference on Saturday, September 24. Please click <a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference" target="_blank">here</a> for
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Marivi
Soliven has authored seventeen books and taught creative writing at the
University of the Philippines and University of California San Diego. Prior to
publication, her debut novel, </i>The Mango Bride<i> (Penguin 2013) won the Grand
Prize at the 2011 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippine
counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize. The Mango Bride later won Best Contemporary
Fiction of 2013 at the San Diego Book Awards. Grupo Planeto released a Spanish
edition, Hace Una Eternidad en Manila in 2014 and National Book Store published
the Filipino edition in 2015. Learn more
at <a href="https://marivisoliven.com/">https://marivisoliven.com</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-53770807942981966172016-09-12T06:00:00.000-08:002016-09-13T09:13:34.677-08:00Kitty Morse | From Casablanca to Anchorage<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Kitty Morse is visiting Anchorage <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182699" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sept. 24 - 28, 2016</span></span> through an author exchange program sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the AWG conference on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182700" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday, Sept. 24</span></span> and also at a members-only salon event on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1437182701" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday, Sept. 25. Kitty will also conduct a special program called "Sprinkle Flowers on Your Plate" as part of the Alaska Botanical Garden Lecture Series, conducted in partnership with 49 Writers (<a href="http://alaskabg.org/event/abg-lecture-sprinkle-flowers-in-your-plate/" target="_blank">buy tickets here</a>). </span></span></i><br />
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My life as a writer developed by accident. Never in my
wildest imagination did I think upon emigrating from Morocco to the US, and
obtaining my master’s degree in French, that I would end up three decades later
the author of ten cookbooks and a memoir. And now, I’ll visit Anchorage on a
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In the beginning, I freelanced, opting to write about my
passions – food and travel. My first byline plastered on the front page of the
food section of the San Diego Union-Tribune sealed my fate. I was hooked. I
submitted query upon query to every publication I could think of. Most queries
were rejected, and I learned rule #1: Never take rejections personally. The
next published article would send my spirits (and my ambition) soaring.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A strange thing happened over time. I fell in love with the
process of writing. Magazine and newspaper assignments gave me the liberty to
satisfy my curiosity about any subject that struck my fancy. I can still
remember how excited I was one particular month to have a byline in 6 different
national publications simultaneously. I learned rule #2: It takes perseverance,
perseverance, and more perseverance, as well as timing and luck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To this day, I advise beginning writers: “Practice the vow
of chastity. NEVER sleep under the same roof as a rejected manuscript.” As a
freelancer, a rejected article repackaged in a new envelope and shipped to a
new address left my house the next day. Rule #3: DARE to query! You have
nothing to lose.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My love of food led me to write cookbooks, and I have
written 10 to date. Since I was born in Morocco, I focused on what I knew:
Moroccan cuisine. The first book, <i>Come
with me to the Kasbah: A Cook’s Tour of Morocco</i>, was hatched at the request
of cooking students. I met the challenge, though it took over a dozen years to
get it into print.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Closer to home, I frequented my weekly farmer’s market. <i>The California Farm Cookbook </i>eventually
took me around the state to interview hundreds of farmers and request their
favorite recipes. What a deal! And what a trip!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tired of writing recipes, I set myself a new challenge in
2002 to write a memoir of Dar Zitoun, the historic Moroccan mansion my father
willed me in the medieval town of Azemmour, 90 kilometers south of my native
Casablanca. But how to make the switch from cookbook writer to memoirist? I
took courses in poetry and creative writing at my local university. Once again,
I fell in love with the process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think of <i>Mint Tea
and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories</i>, as a cookbook with very long
headnotes. To get it into print, I sought the help of professional editors and
a book designer. Then, off it went to China to be printed. <i>Mint Tea and Minarets</i> turned me into an author/publisher. My new
“job” is marketing, and to that end, I publish a monthly enewsletter called <i>The Kasbah Chronicles</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The path I took to become a writer, then an
author/publisher, has been arduous at times. But 10 published cookbooks, a
memoir (and a very supportive husband and food photographer) allowed me to
follow my heart. For that, I thank my lucky stars every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Kitty Morse’s writing
and cooking career spans more than more than three decades. She is the author
of 10 cookbooks and a memoir. She has been a guest on radio and television
around the US and abroad, and her articles have appeared in a number of
national and international publications. www.kittymorse.com<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Kitty hopes to meet up with some of you at one of the
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Alaska Writers Guild annual conference, Anchorage, Alaska,
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Kitty Morse on How to write and market a cookbook.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BP Energy Center<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday, September 24: 6PM. Reservations required.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CHAT WITH THE AUTHOR and SAVOR AN AUTHENTIC MOROCCAN DINNER<o:p></o:p></div>
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TURKEY RED RESTAURANT<o:p></o:p></div>
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550 S Alaska, Suite 100, Palmer AK<o:p></o:p></div>
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Books for sale provided by David Cheezum, Fireside
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Monday, September 26. 6-8PM. Reservations required.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cooking Class: A Taste of Morocco<o:p></o:p></div>
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Allen and Peterson Home store<o:p></o:p></div>
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3002 Seward Highway, Anchorage AK<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anchorage Public Library<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday, September 28: 6:30PM to 8PM. Fee charged.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alaska Botanical Gardens Lecture Series in partnership with
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September 28 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm<o:p></o:p></div>
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BP Energy Center<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thursday September 29, 7PM<o:p></o:p></div>
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Edible Flowers: a Kitchen Companion with Recipes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mint Tea and Minarets: A Banquet of Moroccan Memories<o:p></o:p></div>
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Best Book/Arab Cuisine/USA<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">ANCHORAGE | Publication Consultants, in association with Alaska Book Week, is hosting the <b>Great Alaska Book Fair</b> sponsored in part by The Mall at Sears and Anchorage Public Library. They suggest that anyone interested in participating in The Great Alaska Book Fair respond before all tables are reserved. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Concurrent event will include: a Farmer's Market, a Sidewalk Sale and the Better Business Bureau's Shred Day, and a Financial Fitness Fair; it's the same day that The Mall at Sears features an annual sidewalk sale to coincide with the release of Permanent Fund Dividends. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">If you're interested you can <a href="http://bit.ly/1JbAN8H" target="_blank">sign up for a table here</a>. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">Book fair hours are</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1755982535" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: black; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 AM to 6 PM</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">on</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1755982536" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: black; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><b>Saturday, October 8, 2016</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">. Tables will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Authors are responsible for their own sales—and pocket all the money. There will not be a central check out register. There is a charge of $50 per table. Authors may share tables if they'd like. </span></span></div>
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</b>Saturday, September 17, 2016, 4-5 PM<br />
Fireside Books, 720 S Alaska St # B, Palmer, AK<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska
LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry</i> is
a pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While collecting for the first time Alaska-themed LGBTQ
short fiction and poetry, for the most part the work relates to concerns all
Alaskans share. Editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with contributor
Teeka Ballas, will sign books and give a short reading. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BFITS DINNER, PANEL DISCUSSION,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, September 17, 2016, 6-8:30 PM</span></div>
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Turkey Red Restaurant, 550 S. Alaska St., Suite 100, Palmer, AK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Join editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with
contributor Teeka Ballas, for dinner at Turkey Red. They will share their work
and discuss the process of writing a different Alaska. </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a
pathbreaking anthology that opens a window onto the diverse lives of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Alaskans. From quotidian urban outings to
intimate encounters with breathtaking natural beauty, the collection shatters
stereotypes to reveal a little seen side of the state. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Dinner tickets
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Books. Purchase at the store, by calling 745-2665 or <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/event/building-fires-snow-collection-alaska-lgbtq-short-fiction-and-poetry-dinner-authors-turkey-red" target="_blank">online</a></span><span style="color: windowtext;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BFITS PRESENTATION, READING
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, September 22, 2016, 5-7 PM<br />
University of Alaska Anchorage Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage, AK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Join editors Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, along with
contributors Susanna Mishler, Mei Mei Evans and others, as they share their
work and discuss the process of writing about the Alaska LGBTQ community. </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a
pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. How
does the anthology reveal different aspects of the Alaska LGBTQ community? How
can collaborative projects such as </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building Fires in the Snow</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arctic
Entries</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> open windows onto little-seen aspects of our state? Can
literature empower a community or does it stand outside political and social
movements? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will follow. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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Saturday, September 24, 2016, 6-7:30 PM<br />
Homer Public Library, 500 Hazel Avenue, Homer, AK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a
pathbreaking book, the first to anthologize stories and poems from this
perspective. The collection explores the deep connection between LGBTQ
Alaskans, the urban context and the wilderness that surrounds them both. Editor
Martha Amore, along with contributors Teresa Sundmark, Dawnell Smith and Teeka
Ballas, will give a short reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Question and Answer session and book signing will
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, September 29, 2016, 5-7 PM<br />
Barnes & Noble, 200 East Northern Lights Boulevard, Anchorage, AK, 99503<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry </i>is a
pathbreaking book featuring work from some of Alaska’s finest writers. While collecting
for the first time Alaska-themed LGBTQ short fiction and poetry, for the most
part the work relates to concerns all Alaskans share. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FREE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location:
BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: How do you present
your book to an audience so that they will buy it? This workshop will offer
specific techniques to craft talking points about your book, and adapt those
messages to various audiences, covering the spectrum from the inhabitants of an
elevator, to book club groups, classrooms, speaking engagements, and print,
web, radio and television interviews. Topics covered include creating a 30-second
"elevator speech" and how to prepare for a live broadcast interview
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: conference
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: You wouldn’t
dream of building your house without a foundation, yet counterintuitively,
that’s precisely what most authors do. It’s not until after they create their book that they typically start to
think about a marketing foundation to launch it successfully. In this session,
Susan will share tips on how you can start building your foundation, no matter
where you are at in the publishing process. Learn about some innovative ways to
host your book events, whether you are setting up your very first book signing,
or you are a seasoned author looking to inject new life into your book
signings.</span></div>
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Sept. 24, 2016, 11 am - noon<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b>Native Tongues: Blending the Other into
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49
Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman,
Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In an
increasingly diverse world community, writers face the challenge of replicating
a myriad of voices into their stories. In this session, writers will learn
to create memorable, authentic characters by capturing the cadence of English
as it is spoken by non-English speakers and weaving other languages into their
dialogues, including strategies for replicating the nuanced speech patterns of
characters from varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Participants
will examine excerpts from stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and
Soliven's own work. Following this discussion, writers will draft passages of
dialogue inspired by writing prompts. Those comfortable with sharing their work
will be encouraged to read their scenes aloud for feedback.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday,
Sept. 24, 2016 2:10 – 3:10 pm<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breakout Session: Alaska
Writers Guild Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location:
BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event:
<b>Cooking Up Memoirs: How to Record History</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-animals-and-stories-a-clarifying-gaze-with-debbie-moderow/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info and Registration: </span></a> http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: conference
registrants only</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Writers Guild, 49
Writers, SCBWI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Brooke Hartman,
Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Have you ever
daydreamed, while standing at the stove, of handing down family recipes to the
next generation? Better yet, of recording your family’s history in the process?
Don’t wait to tell your story. This sense of urgency motivated Kitty to write
her award-winning memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan
memories. During this hour-long seminar, find out how she gathered family
recipes and stories, tested the dishes, organized text and photographs, and
mastered the publishing and marketing processes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Saturday,
Sept. 24, 2016, 6 PM</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>An Evening at the Kasbah<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: Turkey
Red Restaurant, 550 South Alaska St.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/debva/Dropbox/deb's%20author%20visits/author%20exchange/Anchorage%20visit/More%20Info:">More Info: </a> <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/">http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $35 | <a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/event/evening-kasbah-kitty-morse-moroccan-dining-author-turkey-red-restaurant" target="_blank">tickets</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Fireside Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: David Cheezem;
Barbara Hecker <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #555555;">barbara@goodbooksbadcoffee.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: venue
seats 50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Book sales: by Fireside Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Savor the
authentic flavors of Morocco with Casablanca-born Kitty Morse, author of
<i>Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen</i>, now in its tenth
printing from Chronicle Books. Chef Alex will prepare a menu featuring recipes
from Kitty’s book using local Alaskan products. Have dinner while Kitty
entertains guests with tales of Moroccan culture and cuisine from Dar Zitoun,
her family home south of Casablanca. Books will be available for sale courtesy
of Fireside Books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25,
2016, 9 – 10:15 am (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 9 AM
service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Uniting Writers and Readers for Social Justice”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E.
18<sup>th</sup> Ave, Anchorage <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More Info: <a href="http://www.anchorageuuf.org/">http://www.anchorageuuf.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage
Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 50 - 60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Susan McBeth,
founder of Adventures by the Book, and Marivi Soliven, author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mango Bride</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, will discuss how they collaborated
on “Saving Beverly,” a literary event that raised awareness and funds to assist
immigrant victims of domestic violence, as well as the broader challenge of
enabling meaningful interactions between writers and readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25,
2016, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (40 minute talk)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: 11 AM
service Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship: <b>“Saving Beverly”</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: 2824 E.
18<sup>th</sup> Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More Info: <a href="http://www.anchorageuuf.org/">http://www.anchorageuuf.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage
Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 80 – 90 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Book sales: following service<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Inspired by her work as an interpreter for
immigrant survivors of domestic violence, San Diego author Marivi Soliven wrote
<i>The Mango Bride</i>. Within the context
of the novel, Beverly, an immigrant wife whose dreams of a better life vanish
when her marriage turns violent, is a composite of the anonymous women for whom
Soliven translates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic violence cuts through all socio-economic classes.
Despite their widely differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially
vulnerable when their legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. During
the 11 am service, Soliven will discuss the expanded protections of the
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving
Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support
immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sunday, Sept. 25,
2016, 5:00 - 7:00pm</u>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Salon Meet
and Greet; includes informal panel (20 – 30 minutes) <b>“Novel Ways to Get Noticed”</b> featuring all visiting authors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location:
Home of Martha Amore, address forthcoming to RSVPers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenters: <b>Susan McBeth, Kathi Diamant, Marivi
Soliven, Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">More Info:</span> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://49writers.org/special-events-and-salons</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: Potluck; BYOB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: 49 Writers, Alaska
Writers Guild, and Alaska SCBWI current members only <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: 49 Writers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Jeremy Pataky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: 25 - 35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: An informal
meet-and-greet potluck event, by invitation to members of 49 Writers, Alaska
SCBWI, and the Alaska Writers Guild. Visiting authors will speak as an informal
panel on their success with novel ways of connecting readers with their books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Monday, Sept. 26,
5 – 7 pm </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: Kafka’s
Last Love—Dora Diamant <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: University
of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info:
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: public<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: UAA Philosophy
Dept/Honors College/UAA Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: John Mouracade,
Rachel Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 104%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: In
her book <i>Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant</i>, author Kathi
Diamant explores the relationship between Franz Kafka and his companion and
confidante Dora Diamant (1898-1952). It details their life in Berlin and,
after his death in 1924, her passionate commitment to keep Kafka’s literary
flame alive while caught in the maelstroms of fascism, communism, and the
Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathi Diamant is Director of the
Kafka Project at San Diego State University which is an ongoing
international search for Kafka's missing literary treasure: 35
letters and 20 notebooks written by Kafka in the last year of his life, and
confiscated from Dora by the Gestapo in Berlin 1933. Just returning from
investigations in Berlin, Kathi will also share her latest findings and
her extraordinary adventures through archives and history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27,
1 – 2:30 pm </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“The Mango Bride: A Frank Talk about
Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities and the Filipino Diaspora”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location:
University of Alaska (UAA) Bookstore, 2901 Spirit Way, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Marivi Soliven<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More info: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events/special-events-calendar.cfm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: UAA Public Health, UAA
Bookstore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gabe Garcia, Rachel
Epstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Marivi Soliven reads from her
award-winning debut novel, <i>The Mango
Bride</i>, inspired by her work as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of
domestic violence. Discussion will include the expanded protections of
the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora, and the Saving
Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations that support
immigrant survivors of domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27,
5:30 – 7 pm </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b><span style="color: #222222;">Ten Things You Should Know about Kafka (Before You Waste the
Rest of Your Life) </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Branch Library, 120 Bragaw, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter:<b> Kathi Diamant</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open to: public<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Mountain View Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Virginia McLure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Book sales: by author<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: <span style="color: #222222;">Who was Franz Kafka? Why is he so
important? And what does Kafkaesque really mean, anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One
of the most influential and misunderstood writers of our age, Franz Kafka was a
lawyer who wrote in his spare time as "a form of prayer." After his
death at the age of forty in 1924, his three unfinished novels were published,
and barely sold a few copies. Yet, 100 years after the publication of his most
famous short story, <i>The Metamorphosis</i>, he has become an icon of
modern literature. His name is invoked more than 75 times a day on the
internet, and a new book has been published on Kafka somewhere in the world
every 10 days for the past 15 years. Yet, many people have never heard of him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
this fun and informative talk, Kathi Diamant, author of <i>Kafka's Last
Love,</i> and director of the SDSU Kafka Project, outlines ten things you
should know to help you understand and appreciate Franz Kafka, one of the early
players in defining--and shaping--our modern world view. You will discover
surprising facts to impress your friends and family, and learn how reading
Kafka actually can make you smarter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Tuesday, Sept. 27,
7 – 8:30 pm </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Saving Beverly” Fundraiser for Abused
Women’s Aid in Crisis (AWAIC)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location:
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship, 2824 E. 18<sup>th</sup>
Ave., Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Marivi Soliven</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $10 suggested donation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Anchorage
Unitarian Universalist (AUU) Fellowship; fundraiser for AWAIC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Gary Holthaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Book sales: following program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 104%;">Description: </span><span style="line-height: 104%;">Inspired by her work as an
interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, San Diego author Marivi
Soliven wrote <i>The Mango Bride</i>. Within
the context of the novel, Beverly, an immigrant wife whose dreams of a better
life vanish when her marriage turns violent, is a composite of the anonymous
women for whom Soliven translates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 104%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Domestic
violence cuts through all socio-economic classes. Despite their widely
differing backgrounds, immigrant wives are especially vulnerable when their
legal status is controlled by an abusive spouse. After several women
shared their own stories of domestic violence, Soliven realized that more could
be done –should be done – to spare others from suffering Beverly’s fate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 104%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At
the Saving Beverly event in Anchorage, Soliven will discuss the expanded
protections of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora,
and the Saving Beverly movement, which raises funds for community organizations
that support immigrant survivors of domestic violence. $10 suggested donation
to support Abused Women Aid in Crisis (AWAIC). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Wednesday, Sept.
28, 6:30 – 8 pm </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Event: <b>“Sprinkle Flowers on Your Plate”</b> for
the Alaska Botanical Garden Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Location: BP
Energy Center Birch Room, 900 E. Benson, Anchorage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presenter: <b>Kitty Morse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More Info:
http://alaskabg.org/programsevents/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cost: $30 ABG members; $35
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Host: Alaska Botanical Garden
(ABG) with 49 Writers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: Stacey Shriner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estimated attendance: room
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Description: Let award-winning
cookbook author Kitty Morse take you on a fragrant excursion through
the world of edible flowers. During her presentation, Kitty will share her
knowledge of growing, gathering and cooking with these delectable edibles. A
sampling of flowers and treats containing them, recipe handouts, and a signing
of Kitty’s latest book, Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with
recipes (<a href="http://www.chefspress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">www.chefspress.com</span></a>.) round
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | Tickets are selling for the Anchorage Concert Association's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">David Sedaris </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">appea</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rance on <b>May 13, 2017. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;">David Sedaris is one of America’s preeminent humor writers. Wielding sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness with great skill. One of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today, Sedaris is returning to Anchorage with all new stories. His original radio pieces can be heard on “This American Life,” and he has seven million books in print, including “Naked,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and his most recent, “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.” The San Francisco Chronicle says “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” <a href="https://alaskapac.centertix.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1636" target="_blank">Buy tickets here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | Fairbanks Arts Association hosts the oldest </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">literary reading series</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in the state. Every month, writers reading their own work publicly at a community meet-up where people can connect with other lovers of literature. Readings are held on the day after First Friday, </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">usually the first Saturday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of the month at </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7 pm</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Most reading are held in the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park, although occasionally in the summer (June, July, and August) the weather is beautiful reading are held outside to another spot in Pioneer Park. Upcoming: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>December</b>: <b>Rosemary McGuire</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additional readings and events may be held, but the First Saturday Literary Reading Series is monthly at 7 pm the day after First Friday (except February). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | <b>The Folk School</b> offers a semester-long class for high school students who want to become better essay writers. <a href="http://thefolkschoolfairbanks.org/event/the-art-of-essay-writing/?instance_id=9238" target="_blank">Details and registration here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">JUNEAU | Introducing Juneau’s anonymous poetry publication, <b>MYTH Zine</b>, currently available at </span><span style="color: #454545;">The Rookery Café, Kindred Post, Alaska Robotics, The JACC, Rainy Retreat Books, The Goldtown Nickelodeon, and High Tide Tattoo. Send your poetry, prose, philosophical wonderings, or love letters to </span><a href="mailto:myythzine@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">myythzine@gmail.com</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | This year's conference is a partnership between Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. This all-day event takes place at the <span style="color: #221e1f;">BP Energy +<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference Center and includes </span>keynotes and panels, as well as writing craft, marketing, traditional publishing, self publishing, children's literature, illustration tracks. <span style="color: #221e1f;">Sign up for optional Intensives or Roundtable Critiques, or take advantage of One-on-One Manuscript Excerpt Reviews. Early bird discount extended until July 31st at only $95 for AWG/49 Writers/SCBWI members or $145 for non-members. More info and <a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference">registration here</a>. </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i>Screenshot of my Profile from HelloTalk: an app for short conversations with language learners around the globe. </i></div>
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This week, I keep dreaming in Spanish. Since I’m a light
sleeper who is also bothered by some chronic pain issues (meaning I wake up
many times each night) I notice my dreams a lot, and I especially note what
language I am speaking in those dreams. Sometimes I want to yell at my subconscious:
stop conjugating! It’s too much work! Just sleep! But clearly, my brain is busy,
and doing just what I want it to be doing: processing what I’ve been feeding
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Here’s the thing: because I love data and the subject of
learning and metacognition, and have done a lot more record-keeping over the
last three years, I notice what it takes to get my mind spinning in tight
circles around any one subject. That’s what I want to share with you. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks to the beauty of apps and data, I can tell you how
much daily Spanish study used to get me dreaming in Spanish: three hours a day.
Which, frankly, is great for short doses but hard to maintain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My average Spanish study for 2015 was only 2 hours a day,
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About 10 days ago, I decided to focus on one skill in
particular – speaking (which is harder for me than reading, listening, or
writing). Instead of practicing in big chunks, I broke things up. Using an app
called HelloTalk, I increased my contact list and now send short audiomessages,
in Spanish, to people I barely know in Peru, Argentina, and Mexico. I also
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but sometimes in the afternoon as well. I review (re-listen to) the messages I’ve
received and sent, for good measure, noting my own errors in order to speak
better the next time. (Deliberate practice requires self-correction, the
experts say, though I try not to correct myself so much that I get bogged down
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Though I’m logging only half my 2015 daily Spanish time, and
only a third of what I used to need in order to send my subconscious into
overdrive, and currently living in Canada and the U.S. instead of Mexico, Spanish
has invaded my thoughts more than ever before. I wake up thinking in Spanish. I
talk to myself without meaning to, in the shower. I find myself responding
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Which tells me: when you want to engage your subconscious, little
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We write at our keyboards. But we also write in the shower,
as we walk outside, when we’re driving and in our sleep—but only as long as we’ve
pinned a piece of our latest project or creative question to the priority list
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Sometimes the very best ideas come to us when we’ve turned
sideways from a problem, allowing our creative/associative faculties to take
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every day, or almost every day. Write a little each day, or even if you can’t—and
don’t worry, many of us can’t—re-read a bit of your own prose before bed or each
morning over coffee. Keep adding that pinch of sand to the oyster of your
thoughts. Keep adding a little more flour to your mental sourdough starter.
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Andromeda Romano-Laxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988887975016816552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-63470079012346939472016-09-07T06:00:00.000-08:002016-09-07T06:00:02.130-08:0049 Writers: Guest Blogger Mary Catharine Martin | On Research, Berries, and Living a Writerly Life<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Six years ago this summer, I hiked up Juneau’s Granite Creek
Basin with my partner Bjorn, looking for berries. It was my first season of
gathering in Alaska, and everything about it was thrilling. Red, yellow, and
melon-colored berries named for a fish. Lush, red, velvety berries named for
the way they fit on your finger like a thimble. I hadn’t liked blueberries very
much growing up in Virginia — they emerged from plastic boxes mushy and
tasteless — but blueberries in Alaska were an entirely different thing, a
hundred times version of what I knew. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rain was blowing sideways and I was losing feeling in my
fingers, but I barely noticed. Bjorn and I had just met, and I was making big,
sweeping statements, trying to impress him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few years later, I see problems with that statement
— not least of which are that it contradicts itself. (I wouldn’t be happy
if I wasn’t living a life I found interesting; I tend to think most things
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I meant, though, is that I always want to be fascinated
by the world and its possibilities. It’s an idea inextricably tied to writing.
(<i>The Oatmeal</i> has a great comic about
happiness and art <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy">here</a>.) We’re
lucky, us writers. Most things become interesting when we are challenged to
convey them well. And Alaska, though it does contain its share of dish-washing and
computer-staring, can also be a place that shakes you out of yourself and what
you know — whether you’re living your own life or researching the life of
someone you’ve imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unless your fiction is fictionalized memoir, you generally
haven’t lived everything you write about. I’ve never committed a criminal act
out of desperation, or been a fugitive on a fishing boat, or an orphan in a Louisiana
swamp. The protagonists in <i>The One that
Ran Away, </i>the novel I’ve been working on for the last six years, have. I’ve
never been a woman searching for her sister during the Klondike Gold Rush either,
but I’ve been planning a protagonist like that in my next book just the same.
I’m excited about the research I’ll do: I’ve begun stockpiling historical
accounts, memoirs from stampeders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately, I’m sure I will also make a few journeys — re-hiking
the Chilkoot Trail, floating parts of the Yukon — because while it is far
from the only way to research, nothing informs fiction like experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of my most recent draft of <i>The One that Ran Away, </i>a chapter in which a 13-year-old girl is
lost and alone in the Tongass didn’t feel right. I spent hours staring at my
computer, writing a paragraph, deleting it. Finally, I decided to walk alone
around Douglas Island, where I live. I sidestepped sea anemones at low tide. I
avoided two young black bears by wading hip-deep in the ocean. I scrambled
around cliffs. I got crushed mussels in my shoes and soaked my socks with
blood. I set up camp on the beach, got creeped out, shoved everything back in
my pack and walked another hour as the sun was setting. By the end of the
second day I’d stopped avoiding devil’s club and begun scrambling up steep
hillsides by digging my bare fingers into the dirt — and this was just a
two-day trip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This isn’t to say you have to live everything in order to
write it; I don’t think that at all. I believe, strongly, in unfettered imagination.
Heck, Laura Hillenbrand’s chronic fatigue syndrome means she does most of her
research from her house, and it clearly works for her nonfiction. (There’s a
great article about that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/the-unbreakable-laura-hillenbrand.html?_r=0">here</a>).
My imagination just feels most unfettered when I’ve been immersed in the best
research I can do. Experience undertaken for research also challenges you,
which has the added benefit of making life more interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A month after I finished my walk around Douglas, my feet are
still a pedicurist’s nightmare. That hike, though, was the highlight of my
summer, and the chapter that came from it was a joy to write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More than “write what you know,” I believe writers should
write what interests them. I also think, however, that if you are writing what
interests you, it should become something you know. For me, much of this
preference comes down to confidence. Whether I’m teaching or writing, I always
want to know more than I can possibly convey — it makes what one does convey
that much richer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After all, if you grew up eating mushy things from plastic
boxes, the best way to know the wonder of an Alaskan blueberry is to taste it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Mary Catharine Martin
is a Juneau writer currently sending out her book, </i>The One that Ran Away</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It interweaves the stories of three
generations of runaways and spans rural Louisiana in the 1930s to modern-day
Las Vegas and Southeast Alaska. </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #333230; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ANCHORAGE | The <b>Alaska Humanities Forum</b> will welcome <b>John Luther Adams </b>for a series of events as part of the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/centennial" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative</a></span> to celebrate excellence in journalism and the arts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets for the first Arctic Entries storytelling event of the season go on sale at 2 pm, Tuesday, September 6th. The actual event is the following week, Tuesday September 13th, at 7:30 pm. <a href="https://arcticentries.com/" target="_blank">Details</a>. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UAA Professor Emerita Phyllis
Fast discusses her mystery books, <i>Half-Bead of Fundy</i> and <i>Midnight Trauma</i>.</span></span></div>
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Emerita Phyllis Fast is an anthropologist, artist and mystery writer. Author of
the acclaimed <i>Northern Athabascan Survival Women, Community, and the
Future</i>, her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries. At this
event she discusses <i>Half-Bead of Fundy</i> and <i>Midnight Trauma,</i> which
take place in Fairbanks, Alaska. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Phyllis
Fast‘s heritage is Koyukon Athabascan and white American. She was born in
Anchorage, in 1946 to Elsie and Oscar Fast, graduated from East Anchorage High
School. Her academic accomplishments include earning a B.A. in English
from the University of Alaska, an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from UAA,
and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. After teaching at UAF
and UAA, she retired Professor Emerita in 2014. She now lives in
Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">ANCHORAGE | </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Historian Erika Monahan</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Wednesday, September 7 from 5:00pm-7:00 pm</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Historian Erika Monahan </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">discusses her book <i>The Merchants of
Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia</i>, recently nominated for the 2016
Early Slavic Studies Association Book Prize. She'll offer a fresh
analysis of Siberian trade and the Russia state during the late sixteenth
through eighteenth centuries. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">According
to Donald Ostrowski (</span><i style="background-color: transparent;">Muscovy and the Mongols</i><span style="background-color: transparent;">), "Erika Monahan sets
out nothing less than a revision of the way we imagine the Muscovite economy in
the early modern era. With a deeply researched examination of trade and
commerce across Eurasia, she challenges a number of ingrained assumptions about
Russian trade policies as backwards, xenophobic, state-driven, and
monopolistic”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">ANCHORAGE | </span><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dr. Liu Zhen presents </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">Political Ideas Conceived in the Zhouyi (The Book of Change)</i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Friday, September 9 from 12-1:30 pm</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Dr. Liu Zhen presents <i>Political Ideas Conceived in the Zhouyi (The Book of
Change). </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Zhen is Associate Professor at China University of Political Science
and Law and currently a visiting professor at College of William and Mary
Confucius Institute. His talk will focus on the rituals, political
advocacy, and virtuous pursuit conceived in the <i>Book of Change</i> (Zhouyi) for
government administrators. And it will analyze the value of traditional
ideas in the Zhouyi for contemporary social developments. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">This
event is sponsored by the UAA Confucius Institute and the UAA Campus Bookstore. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Monday, September 12 from 5:00 pm-7:00 pm</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div>
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Author Richard Chiappone presents <i>Liar’s Code: </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"><i>Growing Up</i></span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"> Fishing</i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"> (Skyhorse Publishing). It is full of warm, funny, and
memorable musings on a life spent fishing. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">According to E. Donnall Thomas Jr., author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Redfish, Bluefish, Ladyfish, Snook, </span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">“Rich Chiappone has accomplished a goal even
more challenging than landing a permit on a fly: the creation of a classic.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">Richard Chiappone is a two-time recipient of the Robert
Traver Award and author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Opening Days</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent;">, a
collection of essays, stories and poems, and the short story collection <i>Water
of an Undetermined Depth</i>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"> His
writing has appeared in </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Alaska
Magazine</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent;">, <i>Playboy</i>,<i> Gray’s
Sporting Journal</i>, and <i>The Sun</i>; and in literary journals
including <i>Crescent Review</i>, <i>Missouri Review</i>, and <i>ZYZZYVA</i>. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">He teaches writing in the U</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">AA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"> Master of Fine Arts
Program and serves on the faculty of the annual Kachemak Bay Writers’
Conference. He lives in Homer with his wife and cats.</span></span></div>
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Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot, Sports Campus West
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, September 8th, at Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College UAA. Debra is the author of <i>The Lost Journals of Sacajawea</i> and <i>Perma Red</i>, recipient of the American Book Award and the Western Writers Association Spur Award, and and Gugggenheim Award (2007). She directs the University of Montana's Creative Writing program and is the guest instructor for the 7th annual 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat. Free and open to the public. </span><br />
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and Greet </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">| Includes informal panel (20 – 30
minutes). Sunday, September 25, 2015, 5-7pm. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">This
informal meet-and-greet 49 Writers potluck event (BYOB) is open by invitation
only to all members of </span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">49 Writers</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;">, </span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alaska SCBWI</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;">, and the </span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alaska Writers Guild</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;">. Visiting
authors </span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Susan McBeth, Kathi
Diamant, Marivi Soliven, Kitty Morse</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;"> will speak as an informal
panel on their success with novel ways of connecting readers with their books.
Members are welcome to bring one guest. RSVP by email (info@49Writers.org) to receive the address. Stay tuned for more info. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">ANCHORAGE | Publication Consultants, in association with Alaska Book Week, is hosting the <b>Great Alaska Book Fair</b> sponsored in part by The Mall at Sears and Anchorage Public Library. They suggest that anyone interested in participating in The Great Alaska Book Fair respond before all tables are reserved. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Concurrent event will include: a Farmer's Market, a Sidewalk Sale and the Better Business Bureau's Shred Day, and a Financial Fitness Fair; it's the same day that The Mall at Sears features an annual sidewalk sale to coincide with the release of Permanent Fund Dividends. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">If you're interested you can <a href="http://bit.ly/1JbAN8H" target="_blank">sign up for a table here</a>. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Book fair hours are</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1755982535" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 AM to 6 PM</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">on</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1755982536" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><b>Saturday, October 8, 2016</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. Tables will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Authors are responsible for their own sales—and pocket all the money. There will not be a central check out register. There is a charge of $50 per table. Authors may share tables if they'd like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | Tickets are selling for the Anchorage Concert Association's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">David Sedaris </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">appea</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rance on <b>May 13, 2017. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;">David Sedaris is one of America’s preeminent humor writers. Wielding sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness with great skill. One of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today, Sedaris is returning to Anchorage with all new stories. His original radio pieces can be heard on “This American Life,” and he has seven million books in print, including “Naked,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and his most recent, “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.” The San Francisco Chronicle says “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” <a href="https://alaskapac.centertix.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1636" target="_blank">Buy tickets here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | Fairbanks Arts Association hosts the oldest </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">literary reading series</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in the state. Every month, writers reading their own work publicly at a community meet-up where people can connect with other lovers of literature. Readings are held on the day after First Friday, </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">usually the first Saturday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of the month at </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7 pm</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Most reading are held in the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park, although occasionally in the summer (June, July, and August) the weather is beautiful reading are held outside to another spot in Pioneer Park. Upcoming: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EAST COAST and UK | After launching her new book, <i><b>To the Bright Edge of the World</b> </i>in Palmer, <b>Eowyn Ivey </b>headed to the west coast to promote her book. She's made it to the east coast, now, and soon heads to the UK on a whirlwind book tour. <a href="http://eowynivey.com/events/" target="_blank">Full schedule here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | This year's conference is a partnership between Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. This all-day event takes place at the <span style="color: #221e1f;">BP Energy +<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference Center and includes </span>keynotes and panels, as well as writing craft, marketing, traditional publishing, self publishing, children's literature, illustration tracks. <span style="color: #221e1f;">Sign up for optional Intensives or Roundtable Critiques, or take advantage of One-on-One Manuscript Excerpt Reviews. Early bird discount extended until July 31st at only $95 for AWG/49 Writers/SCBWI members or $145 for non-members. More info and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference">registration here</a>. </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: medium;">The Alaska Literary Awards</b><span style="font-size: small;"> are open to poets, playwrights, screenwriters, writers of fiction and literary nonfiction, writers of multi-genre, cross-genre, or genre-defying work. Any Alaska writer over 18 who is not a full-time student is eligible to apply. Quality of the work is the primary consideration in determining who receives the awards. $5,000 awards will be given, a</span>ll from privately donated funds. Apply at</span><span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.callforentry.org%2F&h=7AQEhcbt4AQHTKHEeQ0hc1--4XaJBqwtAXw9aqhQMF06akQ&enc=AZOSwCEDH46Vb_oLVVexrTSzUUNTIMbNkscd7PuVPUXZ3xLG6_5jTq7FhnwAJWLW4Dh918ULFL7v-shEnnlse9SZyacLPLAFf8UAMNazuLdRQmtGXNLpeUX2obrGfGdNb7kCJMUukMR5QUAn7RX7Jgx_KdpY4s6JCgRbRjNzCEA3tXs7DxD6emPmR4Yiohfo8wM&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;" target="_blank">www.callforentry.org</a> <span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: 0px;">by Sept. 1, 2016 at 9:59 AKDT.</span><span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-65539815408697058562016-09-01T09:07:00.000-08:002016-09-01T09:07:39.621-08:00Spotlight on Alaska Books: Wealth Woman, by Deb Vanasse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excerpt: An exceptional and complex woman, Kate will prove herself neither angel nor demon. Her perspective—and indeed the perspective of all Native people—will be overlooked time and again in the plethora of books that will be written about the Klondike, popular accounts of the gold rush that emphasize the values and accomplishments of outsiders. But when pieced together decades after her death, her life’s story will demonstrate the many ways in which a singular quest for wealth played out for those who were there first, the indigenous people of Alaska and the Yukon. (<i><a href="http://www.goodbooksbadcoffee.com/book/9781602232778">Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold</a></i>, by <a href="http://www.debvanasse.com/">Deb Vanasse</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">With the first headlines that screamed “Gold! Gold! Gold!” the rush to the Klondike quickly became the stuff of legend. It was the Wild West all over again, the cowboy hero recast as prospector, a rugged individual who, given the right mix of determination and luck, prevailed against the challenges of the wilderness. Missing from popular accounts that celebrate conquest and individual achievement are the perspectives of those who were there first—in particular, the stories of Native women like Kate Carmack, first called Shaaw Tláa, who played a pivotal role in the events that led to the Klondike stampede.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Given from a close-knit Yukon Indian band into marriage with prospector George Carmack, Kate met nearly every key figure in gold rush history. On an expedition up the Klondike River in 1896, it was her brother Skookum Jim, accompanied by Kate’s nephew and husband, who discovered the gold that triggered the rush. Four years later, Carmack abandoned his wife at a California ranch. Illiterate and thousands of miles from her home, Kate fought for her wealth, her family, and her reputation. The first popular rendering of the Klondike Gold Rush from the perspective of those who were there first, her biography gives voice to a survivor who, against all odds, ultimately reclaimed her true wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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“After dozens of books on the man-dominated, scoundrel-infested side of the Klondike Gold Rush, a fresh, new take on an epic historical event” ~ Kim Heacox, author of <i>Jimmy Bluefeather </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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“An excellent example of the New Western History that seeks to recover previously marginalized voices of women, among other groups.” ~ Ross Coen, author of <i>Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“With this deeply researched and richly imagined biography, Deb Vanasse draws one of the Klondike’s most essential yet elusive characters from the wings and restores her to her rightful place.” ~ Frances Backhouse, author of <i>Women of the Klondike</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Co-founder of 49 Writers and founder of the independent authors cooperative Running Fox Books, Deb Vanasse has authored seventeen books. Among the most recent are </i>Write Your Best Book<i>, a practical guide to writing books that rise above the rest; </i>Cold Spell<i>, a novel that </i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>“captures the harsh beauty of the terrain as well as the strain of self-doubt and complicated family bonds; and the “deeply researched and richly imagined” biography </i><a href="http://www.katecarmack.net/">Wealth Woman<i>.</i></a><i> After thirty-six years in Alaska, she now lives on the north coast of Oregon, between Astoria and Seaside. </i>Wealth Woman<i> is available in print from Snowy Owl Books, University of Alaska Press, and as an e-book from Running Fox Press. She'll be speaking with <a href="http://athabascanwoman.com/">blogger Angela Yatlin Gonzalez </a>on Athabascan Women: Looking Back, Looking Forward at 2 pm on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Palmer Museum of History and Art.</i></span></div>
debvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989656208841763294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-80827111556698372362016-08-31T06:30:00.000-08:002016-09-02T08:23:05.120-08:00Guest Bloggers Lucian Childs and Martha Amore | The Successful Failure: Drawing a Picture of an Alaska Community<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 31.7pt; margin-right: 24.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;">
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contemplating telling a story as large as that of Alaska’s LGBTQ community, we editors
understood the anthology we set out to create would be a failure of a kind. No
one book can fully describe the variety and depth of this community, nor indeed,
of any community. However, as Alice Munro says, “The story fails but your faith
in the importance of doing the story doesn’t fail.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over
the course of the three-year project to create <i>Building Fires in the Snow</i>, we sustained our faith in the
uniqueness of Alaska and the importance of telling its story through the LGBTQ experience.
After sifting and editing the work<i>,</i> we
can now see both a little more clearly<i>.</i>
That “… despite my distance/and the tendency of light/over ice toward
mirage,/some shape comes through/that both of us/can recognize.” So Elizabeth
Bradfield describes the successful failure in one of the collected poems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
what shapes there are to recognize! Through M.C. Mohagani Magnetek’s tragic-comic
stories, we get to stand in the life of a transgendered woman and witness how
saucily she handles the daily abuse that comes her way. Through the stories of
Alyse Knorr and Morgan Grey, we experience the failure of love on both sides of
the equation of a closeted relationship. Reading Lucian Childs’ tale of a
mature married couple, we get to view gay unions beyond the prevailing script
of promiscuity and bar life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other
tracks in which we place our own feet: Gabrielle Barnett’s fading southern
queen, clinging to the homesteader’s dream; Rosemary McGuire’s innocent young
fishermen, caught up in a tragic first love; Indra Arriaga’s passionate
traveler, torn between past loves and landscapes, confusing “the sweet odor of
night with the blue smell of snow about to fall in Alaska.” We follow these tracks
into a queer literary space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
yet, our queer voices describe thoughts and feelings everyone shares. Some
would go so far as to say now that queer people have the freedom to simply be
ourselves, like a butterfly who has abandoned its caterpillar skin, we’ve no
need any longer for Queer Literature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps,
but the power of literature resides in specificity. Our queer lives, though
they be similar to those of our straight neighbors, have particular stories to
tell. Queer people yearn to see these representations on the printed page. Yet
they remain a rarity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That
this is so speaks to the publishing bias against gay stories. In the current
business environment, authors worry being branded a “gay writer” can stunt or
even end a budding career. Some develop protective strategies that write around
the issue of sexuality. They relegate gay characters to an ancillary or
supportive status. Some poets choose a gender-neutral second person address to a
beloved. Or writers simply give in to publishing pressure and write straight material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthologies
such as <i>Building Fires in the Snow </i>are
of vital importance if the stories of minority communities are to be told. Anthologies
are uniquely positioned to span the breadth of these communities by having a
wide range of voices, ethnicities, sexualities, and genders. With the support
of academic presses, they are freed from the “bottom line” exigencies of
commercial publishing to open a window onto rarely-seen aspects of culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
result can be powerfully liberating. Anthologies such as ours foster communities
of shared struggle and can catalyze political and social action. Or they can
simply be a book one holds in one’s hands and finds, with deep pleasure, that
one is not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With
the publishing of <i>Building Fires in the
Snow</i>, our faith in Alaska and its LGBTQ community has been realized. That the
collection is the first of its kind creates an expectation for it to represent all
the varieties of queer experience in the state. Though this was our mission, we
quickly understood the limitations under which we labored: the relatively small
pool of queer material from LGBTQ and ally Alaskans, the number of people too busy
with their own projects or not sufficiently ‘out’ to be published in a gay book.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
the end, just a quarter of our writers identify as people of color/bi-racial,
none are Alaska Native, and, like the bulk of our state’s residents, most of
the works are set in urban areas. Within these limitations, we have carved out
what success we can by taking a pointillist approach. As complex as the picture
we’ve drawn, the shape you see of Alaska and its LGBTQ community is incomplete.
We leave it to others to fill in all the dots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We
look forward to discussing these issues and more at the launch events for <i>Building Fires in the Snow</i> being held
throughout the state this fall. You can check out what’s happening at our <a href="http://www.buildingfiresinthesnow.com/">website</a> and keep up to
date on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BFITS49">Facebook page</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Martha
Amore teaches writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She achieved her
Masters of Fine Arts from UAA, and she has published stories in a number of
journals and magazines. Her first novella came out in 2013 in the anthology </i>Weathered
Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas<i>. In 2015,
she won a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award to complete her collection of short
stories. She lives in Anchorage with her husband, three daughters, two cats,
and one big dog. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Lucian
Childs divides his time between Anchorage, Alaska and Toronto, Ontario where he
lives with his husband. In 2013, he received a Rasmuson Foundation Individual
Artist Project Grant as well as the </i>Prism Review<i> Short Story Prize. He has been awarded residencies at Brydcliffe Art
Colony and at Artscape Gibraltar Point and was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the
2015 </i>Kenyon Review<i> Writers Workshop.
His short stories have appeared in </i>Grain<i>,
</i>Sanskrit<i>, </i>The Puritan<i>, </i>Jelly Bucket<i>, </i>Quiddity<i>, and </i>Cirque<i>, among others.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A
49 Writers Crosscurrents event featuring panelists Lucian Childs and Martha
Amore with moderator Heather Brook Adams will begin at 7 pm, October 13<sup>th</sup>,
at the Anchorage Museum. This event, called “Tales of the City: Writing from
Alaska’s Urban Hubs”, will be preceded by an informal </i>Building Fires in the
Snow<i> meet and greet at MUSE Restaurant
between 5 and 6:45 pm. <b><o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers
Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the <a href="http://alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference" target="_blank">AWGconference</a> on Saturday, Sept. 24 and also at a members-only salon event
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rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, &
who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="readable"><i>Adventures</i></span><span class="readable"> by the Book™ (ABTB) was founded on the premise that
books connect people and communities, so it probably comes as no surprise that
I believe the success of a book will not only be determined by the quality of
the writing, but also by an author’s ability to connect with readers and the
reading community. Writing is a solitary profession, so how, then, does an
author (you) leave your protective cocoon to fulfill your yearning to connect
with readers? Promotion of your book can indeed be a daunting task, but it is
crucial for its success and likely will not be as difficult as you think. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="readable"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps it will be helpful for you to think
of your book promotion in terms of a set of concentric circles, with you at the
bull’s eye, the actual center of those circles. This makes sense considering
you are the creator, and you are the most invested in the success of your own
book. You certainly cannot expect others to help promote your book if you are
not doing so yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to lead the way by making available and disseminating information about your
book as many ways as possible, through whatever channels are available to you,
such as your mailing list, social media, and your website. Once you schedule
your book signing event(s), make sure to not only include crucial details like
date, time, venue, cost etc., but other relevant and often overlooked
information such as how readers register to attend an event (making sure to
include a direct link), where and how readers may purchase books, and what they
can expect from their experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="readable"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you have laid this groundwork, you can
expand to the next closest circle, that of family, friends and colleagues.
After all, these are the close-reach people who are invested in you and want to
see you succeed. Do not be shy about asking then to spread the word to their friends
and book clubs, whether by word of mouth, e-mail, or their own social media, or
to help you host events. As I built ABTB from ground zero, my first event
consisted solely of a wonderful group of my girlfriends and colleagues, some of
whom brought members of their family or book club members, and my following has
grown organically from there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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immediate community. This is where you can post events at local libraries,
community centers, or public event calendars, and at any other businesses or
organizations with whom you have a connection or may have an interest in your
event. This does not have to be a bookstore. Non-traditional book signings at
alternative venues are a great option for Alaskan authors who are geographically
dispersed or who live in areas that don’t have brick and mortar bookstores.
Another benefit from working with community organizations is that they
typically have their own mailing lists and are usually happy to help you
promote your event, as they are also vested in its success. Just do not assume
they will do so automatically, so make sure to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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whether the traditional radio, television, and print media, or of the social
media variety. Do not be afraid to send out press releases for your event, and
do not be afraid of jumping into the social media world, even if you have never
before done so. Conduct a little research to see which are the most relevant
social media formats <i>for your reading
demographic</i>, and focus on those few rather than overwhelming yourself by
utilizing every social media outlet available.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="readable"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While this is just a guideline to get you
started, remember that the amount of effort you put into promoting your event
will bear a direct correlation to the success of your event(s) and your book
sales. If you work hard at promoting your book, the rewards are worth it, as
there is nothing more satisfying than connecting people and communities through
books. So go out and create your own Adventure by the Book!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Susan
McBeth founded Adventures by the Book™ in 2011 after having specialized in
event management for over twenty years, including four and a half years as
Director of Marketing and Events for one of the oldest independent bookstores
in the United States. Her passion to more intimately connect readers with
authors and their books through unique and interactive literary events and travel
has led her to redefine traditional author readings. Susan is also the founder
of AuthorPreneurs™, an incubator program for writers She is a contributor to
Midge Raymond’s </i><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Everyday
Book Marketing</span></em><i> and a contributing editor to international online
magazine </i><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Wine Dine & Travel</span></em><i>, with her column
“Travel by the Book”. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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been featured on NBC San Diego, KPBS, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego
Magazine, Women’s Radio, Reading with Robin Radio, Hera Hub Podcast, IBPA
Independent Magazine, and others Susan is a facilitator for the San Diego State
University Osher Institute’s ‘Ed’-ventures and sits on the committee for KPBS
One Book, One San Diego, and is a former Board member for the Southern
California Independent Booksellers Association She holds a Masters in
Comparative Literature with an emphasis in German Literature from San Diego
State University, where she earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar
Board Honor Society after graduating Magna cum Laude from San Diego State
University with a degree in business administration, with distinction in
management, and a minor in German. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find out
more at <a href="http://www.adventuresbythebook.com/">www.adventuresbythebook.com</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A slightly shorter version </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">originally appeared in the </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anchorage Press</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anchoragepress.com/cover-music/silences-so-deep" target="_blank">here</a></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
call John Luther Adams from my cabin near McCarthy. He’s maintained his 907
area code, though I know he’s relocated to New York City after 40 years in
Alaska. My spot in the woods seems more akin to his former habitat than the deep
urban place where he answers the phone. I’m picturing Adams inside his old studio
cabin nestled in calm, subarctic boreal forest, as documented by filmmaker Bob
Curtis-Johnson before Adams left. Afterimages of that <a href="http://www.rasmuson.org/enjoy-cat/grantee-stories/echoes-of-inhabitance/" target="_blank">short—and completely silent—film</a> clash with the intermittent city sirens that whine through the
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is a composer. He’s also an author, presently finishing up his third book,
called <i>Silences So Deep: A Memoir of
Music and Alaska</i>, recently excerpted in <i>Alaska
Quarterly Review</i> and forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both
his life and work are deeply rooted in the natural world. Adams was awarded the
2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his symphonic work <i>Become Ocean</i>, and a 2015 Grammy Award for “Best Contemporary
Classical Composition”. <i>Inuksuit</i>, his
outdoor work for up to 99 percussionists, is regularly performed all over the
world. He’s won a number of other prestigious awards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born
in 1953, John Luther Adams grew up in the South and in the suburbs of New York
City. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts, where he
was in the first graduating class (in 1973). He became an environmental
activist in the mid-1970s, campaigning for the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act and then serving as executive director of the Northern Alaska
Environmental Center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adams
has taught at Harvard University, the Oberlin Conservatory, Bennington College,
and the University of Alaska. He has also served as composer in residence with
the Anchorage Symphony, Anchorage Opera, Fairbanks Symphony, Arctic Chamber
Orchestra, and the Alaska Public Radio Network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his recognition stems almost entirely from his musical career, his book <i>Winter Music: Composing the North</i> placed
him on my radar a dozen years ago. His work has been a steady presence for me
since. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve
also admired his depictions of two other Alaskan artists, the poet John Haines
and conductor Gordon Wright. Adams has written evocatively of his friendship
with them. Adams’ anecdotes about how he and Wright would hoot at each other
and a visitation from an owl after Wright died came to mind the night before
our interview. I was prepping for our conversation when a Great Horned Owl flew
passed the cabin and landed in a spruce. I went outside and it stayed put for
minutes, bobbing its head and watching me. It was the first owl I’d seen since
spring. Adams’ joked: “That was probably Gordon. He always wanted to be my
press agent.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You first came to Alaska in 1975 and stayed for forty years. You
said you came to Alaska instead of going to grad school, and that your time
playing timpani in Fairbanks was more valuable than graduate school could have
been. How exactly did Alaska educate you? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because I was in
Fairbanks, I had opportunities that just wouldn’t have been available to me
perhaps anywhere else…. I was immediately hired as the timpanist. I’d never
played timpani in my life, but I was a kind of lapsed percussionist. I had the
most important qualification for employment in Fairbanks in those days, though—I
was there. It didn’t hurt that the conductor was my best friend. By the time I
finished I was probably at the best I ever played anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As timpanist and composer
in residence at the Fairbanks Symphony, I had the opportunity to learn things
that I probably wouldn’t have had anywhere else. I got to get inside of
orchestral music of all sorts and learn it from the inside out. I learned about
orchestration from inside the orchestra, from hearing the different sections
practice different passages and then hearing how things went together. I always
got the score for everything we were playing so I was not only learning my part
as the timpanist, but I was learning the score. Previously, I’d had little or
no interest in the canon of western classical music. In my youthful rebellion,
I had thrown that baby out with the bathwater. But because I was the timpanist
in the Fairbanks Symphony, I came to terms with that music and learned it from
the inside, and it was incredible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In time, you know, part
of the devil’s bargain that Gordon [Wright] made with me was “Okay, you play
timpani in my orchestra and I’ll play your music.” So really, as I used to tell
Gordon, I got the better end of both sides there. I got to write things and
hear them played. I got to learn how to compose for orchestra by doing it, not
just by reading about it, and I got this incredible education about the history
of orchestra music that I probably wouldn’t have gotten any other way. It was a
win-win for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for us. You’re primarily identified as a composer, but
you are also an author. You’ve corresponded or collaborated with some fantastic
writers in addition to composers, musicians, and producers. What artistic
obligations span your twin practices of composing and writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know, I didn’t answer
the phone when you first called because my editor was just leaving. We’re
ploughing through the third draft of a new book, which is the story of my life
and work in Alaska. But it’s funny—I try not to think of myself as a writer; I
still talk of myself as a composer who sometimes writes. Maybe that’s just
superstition, but… I want to keep it fun. Composing is <i>difficult</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a pitcher—I
can’t remember who it was, but it was a major league pitcher a number of years
ago—who was also a pretty good hitter. Someone said to him “You know, you’re a
good pitcher, but you’re a pretty good hitter, too,” and he said “Pitching is
hard. Hitting is fun.” I sort of feel like that about writing. I know better,
but composing is hard and writing is fun, at least by comparison. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You write quite a bit about the ideas and process behind your
music. Has it felt important to “explain” yourself as a composer through
writing? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I’m usually writing
for the same person for whom I’m composing—that is, myself. When I’m composing,
it’s almost as though I’m composing home. I’m trying to hear something I
haven’t heard before. I’m trying always to discover new sonic territory, new
musical territory. If I’m lucky, I get hopelessly lost in those strange new
landscapes. And, of course, that’s what I want for myself, but it’s also what I
want for you, the listener. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a writer, I write
primarily to figure out what the work wants of me. The great painter Barnet
Newman once quipped—he was a pretty fair writer himself—that the artist
sometimes writes so he’ll have something to read. I think I know what he meant.
I think I understand that. I write sometimes before, sometimes during, and
sometimes after the process of composing to try and figure out what the music
wants from me. It helps me understand the work and where the work wants to lead
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this book I’m working
on now is the story of my life and work in Alaska. I really found home in
Alaska, and it is home in the deepest sense and it always will be. I really
came of age, as an artist and a man, in Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now that I’ve left
home, I’m trying to figure out what it was that drew me there in the first
place, what I discovered there, what I thought I was doing, and what it might
have meant, and ultimately why the time came for me to leave. So once again,
I’m writing a book as a process of discovery for myself, and then I hope to
make it a good enough story that somebody else is going to be interested in
reading it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you’ll be reading from that new manuscript soon in
Anchorage. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes—I haven’t decided yet
what I want to read. It’s sort of carrying coals to Newcastle, bringing this
story home, because everyone in the room will have their own Alaska story, but
I’m excited about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ve written at length about the impact of creative
collaborations and conversations with fellow artists, the conductor Gordon Wright
and poet John Haines. How has your creative process changed in their absence
and your own maturation as an artist? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John and Gordon are two
of the three most important people in my life. The dedication in the new book
is to Cynthia, Gordon, and John. Cynthia, of course, is the love of my life, my
soulmate for thirty nine years, now. John and Gordon are not absent in my life.
They’re still with me every day in so many ways. You know—I shared with those
three people a life and a vision of how the world is and how the world might be
that still sustains me every day in everything that I do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did their passing help prompt or even permit your own choice
to leave Alaska? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolutely. The short
version is that when Gordon died, I knew the time was coming, and when John
died, I knew the time had come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a poet, I was interested in how you describe Gordon Wright
eventually learning that “sound rather than syntax was the key to making sense
of [your] music,” and that it was Haines’s poetry that helped Wright realize
that. Can you comment on how <i>your</i>
experience of poetry and music have informed each other, or how they might
relate?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya, when I was an
adolescent, like all of us, I wrote bad poetry. I read a lot of poetry and
literature and I might have been a writer, I might have been a poet instead of
a composer. I’ve always had that frame of reference or sensitivity to language.
In addition to John Haines, one of my other dearest friends is Barry Lopez.
Barry and I delight in the feeling that we’re doing the same work in different
forms. We take no end of pleasure in discovering not the differences but the
parallels between our work in different artistic media. So I would say in a way
that as a composer I’ve learned as much—probably more—from writers and from
visual art than I have from music and other composers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interesting. I know you’ve endorsed Walter Pater’s notion
that “all the arts constantly aspire to the condition of music,” so it’s
interesting to pair those thoughts. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I’m slumming,
right? [laughs] I think all the arts aspire to be whole. I think all of human
intelligence and our human senses—we want to be whole, and we’ve become so
divided—from ourselves, let alone from one another. We’re at a time in a
culture in which human consciousness itself is dangerously fragmented and I
think part of what we’re trying to do through poetry, through music, through
the science of ecology, through all forms of creative thought… and good science
is every bit as creative as good art… is to re-innovate ourselves, to make
ourselves whole again, to find, as Gregory Bateson would say, “the pattern
which connects.” And in feeling more fully integrated as individuals, hopefully
we feel more integrated with one another and this whole miraculous world we
inhabit, and all the forms of life with which we share this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That speaks to the condition of music and its relevancy
across the arts and other disciplines. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look, I’ve devoted my
life to music and still I have no idea what music is. Music doesn’t care. Music
can be whatever it wants to be. Sure, it can tell a story. Sure, it can express
emotions, but it can also be a place or weather or it can be things that we
haven’t yet imagined or understood. Ultimately, for me, as a composer—and I say
this often—music is not what I do, music is how I understand the world. And the
flip side of that is the whole world is music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That certainly calls to mind <i>The Place Where You Go To Listen</i>, which was installed ten years ago
at the Museum of the North. The Rasmuson Foundation just announced plans last
month to fund a $104,000 upgrade. How has the meaning of <i>The Place</i> for you has changed over the course of its first decade?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s a great question.
I’m amazed that <i>The Place </i>is still up
and running ten years later. It’s a complex piece with a lot of moving parts, you
know, a lot of hardware and a lot of software. I’m delighted and a little
astonished that it’s still running. You know I wrote a whole book about <i>The Place Where You Go To Listen</i> and its
evolution; in my body of work—and maybe in a larger sense—<i> The Place Where You Go To Listen</i> is unique. Within the context of
my work, it’s both a point of arrival and departure. In some ways, it’s my most
Alaskan work and if you want to experience <i>The
Place Where You Go To Listen</i> you can’t download it on the internet, you can’t
buy a CD. You have to go to Fairbanks and you have to sit in that room and
wait. And listen. And wait. And listen. And wait. And listen. It’s all about
being there in that place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could have just been describing, in a way, your creative
process itself over the last forty years. Your description of how one could
experience <i>The Place Where You Go To
Listen </i>also describes, in a way, your approach to the world itself. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya, I think that is
astute and generous of you to say. I think that’s right. It’s profoundly
satisfying to me to know that there are people like you—that you can go to <i>The Place Where You Go To Listen</i> and sit
in silence and deep attention and feel as though you’re in tune with, in touch
with, the forces of the world, this music that is swirling around us all the
time, some of it just beyond the reach of our ears. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None of the forces that
actually create the music, none of the forces behind the sounds in <i>The Place Where You Go To Listen</i>, are
normally audible to us. It’s driven by seismic activity, by the photoperiod, by
the phases of the moon, by geomagnetic weather, the solar winds, by the rhythms
of night and day. These are things that we’re not usually able to hear. So you
go there, and they’re transposed into the reach of your ears. You go and you
sit in <i>The Place Where You Go To Listen</i>
and feel as though—even though you won’t recognize a single sound—that somehow
it’s real, it’s alive, and it’s connected to the larger world, and you are
there, alone, in the center of the world. That’s what I want for myself. It’s
what I want for you, the listener, in all of my work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m curious how indigenous people have responded over the
years to your work. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally speaking… I’ve
not worked directly with native music. There is one piece from many years ago—<i>Earth and the Great Weather</i>—that is
subtitled “A Sonic Geography of the Arctic”. That’s grounded in the geography
of the eastern north slope—what we now call the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, which of course is the home country of both Iñupiaq people to the north
and Gwich’in Athabascan people to the south. So in that piece, I worked very
closely with four native performers and even so, I didn’t borrow directly from
native music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to translate what
I had experienced as the energy of—the spirit of—native music into my own
musical world. I think the profound influence of native culture on my life’s
work has been through—what would I call it?—the wisdom of native experience.
The deep and ancient experience of that place as home. The knowledge that the
whole world has intelligence. The Yupik people talk about the spirit in all
things. That really is close to the heart of my own faith, my own belief
system. Everything in the world—everything in what we call “nature”—has
presence, and dignity, and awareness, and everything in the world is in
counterpoint with everything else, and in some way <i>influences</i> everything else… which is a fundamental principle of
ecology, isn’t it? So that’s probably the deepest influence of native culture
on my work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is there anything else you want to share in advance of your
trip to Alaska? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m very, very excited
about coming home. I miss Alaska every day, and as I said earlier, it’s home
and it always will be, and I can’t wait to be home for a while. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Luther Adams will
read from his new book <i>Silences So Deep:
A Memoir of Music and Alaska </i>in Anchorage at Cyrano's at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday, Sept. 2 at 7
p.m., he will give an artist's talk at the Anchorage Museum titled <i>Music in the Anthropocene</i>. A reception
at 8 p.m. will occur in the atrium adjacent to the auditorium. The talk will be
simulcast at the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
site of his installation <i>The Place Where
You Go to Listen</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From 6 p.m. to midnight
on Sept. 2 and 3 the Museum will present the six-hour-long <i>Veils and Vesper</i>, a series of electronic pieces composed by Adams
in 2005. The Alaska Humanities Forum is a sponsor of Adams' visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Jeremy Pataky is the author of </i>Overwinter </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(University of Alaska Press 2015) and the
Interim Executive Director of 49 Writers, Inc. He splits his time between
Anchorage and McCarthy. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #333230; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ANCHORAGE | The <b>Alaska Humanities Forum</b> will welcome <b>John Luther Adams </b>for a series of events as part of the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/centennial" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative</a></span> to celebrate excellence in journalism and the arts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://johnlutheradams.net/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John Luther Adams</a> </span><span style="color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a composer and author whose life and work </span><span style="color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">deeply rooted in the natural world—especially in Alaska, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">where he lived for forty years before moving to New York City </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">in 2015. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Adams was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for music </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">for his symphonic work <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Become Ocean</span>, and a 2015 Grammy </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Award for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.” He has </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taught widely, including at Harvard University and the Oberlin </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Conservatory, and served as composer in residence with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Anchorage Symphony, Anchorage Opera, Fairbanks Symphony, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333230;">Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and APRN. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The public is invited to a series of three free events during John Luther Adams' visit to Anchorage; you can also <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.konr1061.org/listen-online.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tune in to 106.1 FM KONR</a> </span>to listen to selected works from september 1-7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">READING AND BOOK SIGNING | Thursday, September 1, 6-8 pm at Cyrano's Playhouse. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Adams will read from his upcoming memoir,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Silences So Deep: A Memoir of Music and Alaska</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Passages reflecting on his friendships with poet John Haines and composer Gordon Wright have been excerpted </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">in the <i>New Yorker </i>and <i>Alaska Quarterly Review</i>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<b>12-week nature and travel writing class</b> beginning September 21st in the Sierra Club
office downtown. Participants in this workshop-style class will explore and
refine their own writing styles, with an emphasis on the personal essay form.
The class will also read and discuss works by some of America’s finest nature
and travel writers. $240. To sign up for this Wednesday night class
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | <b>The Folk School</b> offers a semester-long class for high school students who want to become better essay writers. <a href="http://thefolkschoolfairbanks.org/event/the-art-of-essay-writing/?instance_id=9238" target="_blank">Details and registration here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EAST COAST and UK | After launching her new book, <i><b>To the Bright Edge of the World</b> </i>in Palmer, <b>Eowyn Ivey </b>headed to the west coast to promote her book. She's made it to the east coast, now, and soon heads to the UK on a whirlwind book tour. <a href="http://eowynivey.com/events/" target="_blank">Full schedule here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON | A <i><b>Cirque</b> </i>reading will be held at the Mount Baker Theater, Encore Room, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1988122463" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><b>August 28</b>,<b> </b>at 3 pm. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CirqueJournal/?fref=ts" target="_blank">more info</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | This year's conference is a partnership between Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. This all-day event takes place at the <span style="color: #221e1f;">BP Energy +<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference Center and includes </span>keynotes and panels, as well as writing craft, marketing, traditional publishing, self publishing, children's literature, illustration tracks. <span style="color: #221e1f;">Sign up for optional Intensives or Roundtable Critiques, or take advantage of One-on-One Manuscript Excerpt Reviews. Early bird discount extended until July 31st at only $95 for AWG/49 Writers/SCBWI members or $145 for non-members. More info and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference">registration here</a>. </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i><b>The Pacific Ocean: Protecting Our
Endangered Coast</b></i>, an anthology of poems that will explore the Pacific Ocean
as a wilderness, a haven, and a part of our natural world that needs
protecting. <strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Yvonne Blomer</span></strong>, Victoria,
B.C.’s poet laureate, will edit the anthology. Blomer has published three
collections of poetry, most recently <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">As if a Raven</span></em> (Palimpsest
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first book, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a broken mirror, fallen leaf,</span></em> was shortlisted for
the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. <a href="http://caitlin-press.com/call-for-submissions-pacific-poems/">Learn more,
including how to submit two poems, here</a>. Deadline: September
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-21777261137478527032016-08-24T06:00:00.000-08:002016-08-24T06:00:29.371-08:0049 Writers: Guest Blogger Lucian Childs | Literary Chardonnay: Exploring Alaska's Urban Wilds<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 31.7pt; margin-right: 24.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
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of Alaska, they imagine snow, rugged mountains, sled dog races, grizzlies,
homestead cabins and “The Deadliest Catch.” That people would be living up here
in an urban context would probably not occur to them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But over half of us Alaskans
live in cities. What makes our experience unique is the dichotomy we often feel
between our ordinary travails—taking kids to school, dashing into Carrs for
groceries, or meeting friends at the PAC for a musical—and what we think of as the
Great Land, that vastness teeming with wildlife. Our lives are as helter-skelter
as city folks anywhere, but we live surrounded by wilderness, which exerts a
mighty influence on our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This hit me last
spring when I flew into Anchorage for my semi-annual sojourn. After I picked up
my car, I drove to my friend’s house on Government Hill where I was to stay. It
was early evening, one of those days we get in the spring: cloudless and
crystalline. Near my friend’s house, I pulled off at the park that overlooks
the Tank Farm. All the expectations about my upcoming stay—the dinner parties
and meet-ups with friends—all that dropped away. Beyond the oil tanks and our
small port, Mt. Susitna reclined and the Alaska Range disappeared down Cook
Inlet, white peaks silhouetted against the approaching sunset. I’ve lived in
Anchorage almost twenty-five years, but I’d forgotten the formidable beauty in
which it is located. Looking down Cook Inlet took my breath away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an hour, though, I
was showered and shaved, catching up with my friend Julie over a good
Chardonnay in the bar at Kinley’s. To me, this combination of activities is as deeply
Alaskan as setting a trapline or dipnetting for reds—being awed by the beauty of the Inlet, then
having that glass of Chard at a fine restaurant with a friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be honest, I haven’t
always felt that other Alaska writers share this sentiment. As compelling as
their work is, so often it concerns the natural world and our place in it. So,
when Martha Amore and I started reading submissions for the anthology we were
editing, <i>Building Fires in the Snow: A
Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry</i>, I expected works relating
climbing accidents, backcountry bear encounters or childhoods in remote
homestead cabins. Let me say, there is nothing wrong with those stories. I love
those stories. I’ve even been part of some of them. But where are our Alaska stories
with that glass of literary Chardonnay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my great delight, we
found them in the submissions we read: stories of a couple interviewing for a rental
house and unexpectedly finding a new friend, roommates dealing with a hornet’s
nest, a lovelorn young man pouring his heart out to a stranger over drinks at
Mad Myrna’s. There were urban bonfire parties, journalists, geologists, fiddle
players, bloggers and roller derby enthusiasts. There was the loving mom
thinking back on her wild and crazy single life; the long-time married couple,
recent transplants to Anchorage, unhappy with the choices they’d made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martha and I worked
hard to identify writers whose work was set in rural and bush communities, but
as so many of us live in Anchorage, many of the stories and poems we read were
set there as well. Yet always there was wilderness lurking at the edges,
glimpsed in the rearview window, appreciated on an afternoon hike. But more
than that, the characters in these stories and poems looked to nature for
models of how to live. A lover ponders a difficult relationship by walking the
Chugach Mountains alone. Taking a wild and wooly road trip through Pipeline-era
Alaska, a young girl finds herself. A man on the cusp of old age accepts his
new situation, seeing the way trees cling to life at the edge of a bog. In those
stories and poems, the two halves of the dichotomy were wed—the urban and the
wild. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Certainly, there was
work we read that took place in non-urban locales and where wildness exerted
its instructing influence, such as Jerah Chadwick’s stunning poems set in the
Aleutians. Here, men grappled with themselves and a life with a lover while
hauling in provisions or stoking a potbellied stove.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all the
submissions had been read, we selected works for the anthology from twenty-six
contributors, including Martha and myself. These writers, some established
pros, others emerging artists, weave the rich tapestry of Alaska life, for the
first time using stories and poems from our LGTBQ community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I prepare to return
to Anchorage for the launch of <i>Building
Fires in the Snow</i>, I’m excited to soon be a part of this unique place again.
I look forward to dinner at a friend’s overlooking the Inlet, Redoubt letting
off steam in the distance. To celebrating the end of a long day’s hike by
having an honest Alaska brew at a downtown eatery. To First Friday-ing in the
sharp autumn air. To being an explorer again in Alaska’s urban wilds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be launch
events for <i>Building Fires in the Snow</i>
all over the state this fall. You can check out what’s happening at our <a href="http://www.buildingfiresinthesnow.com/">website</a> and keep up to
date on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BFITS49">Facebook page</a>. Martha and I hope to see you at an event
and to learn how wilderness and the city come together in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Lucian Childs divides
his time between Anchorage, Alaska and Toronto, Ontario where he lives with his
husband. In 2013, he received a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project
Grant as well as the </i>Prism Review<i>
Short Story Prize. He has been awarded residencies at Brydcliffe Art Colony and
at Artscape Gibraltar Point and was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the 2015 </i>Kenyon
Review<i> Writers Workshop. He is a
co-editor </i>of <a href="http://www.buildingfiresinthesnow.com/">Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of
Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry</a><i>.</i><i> His short stories have appeared in </i>Grain<i>, </i>Sanskrit<i>, </i>The Puritan<i>, </i>Jelly Bucket<i>, </i>Quiddity<i>, and </i>Cirque<i>, among others.</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /><br />A 49 Writers
Crosscurrents event featuring panelists Lucian Childs and Martha Amore with
moderator Heather Brook Adams will begin at 7 pm, October 13<sup>th</sup>, in the
Anchorage Museum auditorium. This event, called “Tales of the City: Writing
from Alaska’s Urban Hubs”, will be preceded by an informal </i>Building Fires
in the Snow</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> meet and greet at MUSE
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49 Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16668373336251297790noreply@blogger.com1Anchorage, AK, USA61.2180556 -149.9002778000000360.2359631 -152.48206480000002 62.2001481 -147.31849080000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-53217203007259381362016-08-23T07:00:00.001-08:002016-08-25T10:12:35.892-08:0049 Writers: Lois Paige Simenson | Write It Funny <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
A while back someone told me my writing sometimes reminded her of Nora Ephron. I was shocked at hearing this, and while I took it as a tremendous compliment, I duck-paddled like a wild woman, realizing I didn’t know much about Ephron. I knew her work as a screenwriter and director from her hit movies, <i>Silkwood</i>, <i>Sleepless in Seattle</i>, <i>You’ve Got Mail</i>, and <i>When Harry Met Sally</i>, but other than that, not much else.</div>
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I was a poster child of pop culture, like other baby boomers. We were the first TV-all-the-time generation, raised on a mix of <i>Bugs Bunny</i>, <i>Roadrunner</i>, the <i>Addams Family</i> and <i>I Dream of Jeannie</i>, sprinkled with <i>Laugh-In</i> and serious-movies-told-funny in the 70s, like <i>Little Big Man</i>.</div>
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So naturally, when Nora Ephron’s films hit our screens in the 80s and 90s I knew I would absorb scenes that quipped, “I’ll have what she’s having,” after Meg Ryan’s convincing portrayal of faking in the deli of <i>When Harry Met Sally</i>. (I won’t say what she was faking; if you don’t know, rent the movie). How could a screenwriter write painful, personal stories about love and loss, with such honesty and unconventionality—and be funny doing it?</div>
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I set out to read all I could about Nora Ephron. What I didn’t know then, but I do now, is in addition to screenwriting, Ephron had an extensive career “…as a reporter, a profilist, a polemicist, a novelist, a screenwriter, a playwright, an essayist, a memoirist and a blogger…” as stated in the Introduction by Robert Gottlieb of <i>The Most of Nora Ephron</i>. During my study of her work, I paused to watch <i>Everything is Copy</i>, an HBO documentary made by her son, Jacob Weinstein. I was then able to match the real-person verbal narratives with Nora’s written narrative.</div>
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I wasn’t sure what my takeaway would be. I wasn’t searching for anything specific. Just—searching, curious about her evolution as a writer and what her secret was to writing funny. I’m always curious to know what lies behind what people write.</div>
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I found that Ephron’s narrative style operated on the reality principle. Her own life found its way into much of what she wrote. Women identified with her because she wrote about personal things she encountered through life’s passages—and she wrote it honest and funny in her book on aging, <i>I Feel Bad About My Neck</i>: “You can shoot collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery, there’s not a damn thing you can do about a neck. A neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn’t have to if it had a neck.”</div>
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A good example of writing funny was in Ephron’s novel, <i>Heartburn</i>, which later became a movie with Streep and Nicholson. She took the traumatic circumstance of her husband’s infidelity and fictionalized it in a funny way that had readers howling (except her ex-husband). She wove into the story humorous insights into the infidelities and social life in the political arenas of Washington D.C. in the late 70s, and her dad’s escapades in and out of the “loony bin.”</div>
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Several in the HBO documentary about Ephron said she wrote about events in her life so that she would be “in control” and not the out-of-control victim. Nora herself stated, “When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.” Her sister Delia nodded at this and said, “Yup, Nora was a control freak.”</div>
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“Everything is copy,” Ephron’s mother always told her. Everything, that is, except Nora’s illness and death, which she kept private until the end. Those two things she could not control.</div>
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My takeaway from Nora Ephron’s writing is this: No matter how grim or traumatic my personal circumstance may be, once I work through it and distance myself, maybe I can write about it. And why not write it funny? It’s a way we control freaks can write our stories, whether we choose to write memoir or fiction. This approach may not work for everyone. But, writing funny is one way to write about the pain of loss or whatever else life throws at us. I’d rather tell people I slipped on the banana peel, instead of listening to them laugh when I slip on it.</div>
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two novels, </i>The Butte Girls Club<i> and </i>Otter Rock<i>.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Molin, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and
professor of English at West Point, published a post this week on his
outstanding<i> </i><a href="https://acolytesofwar.com/2016/08/14/war-writing-the-raw-and-the-cooked/"><i>Time Now</i></a><i> </i>blog on the difference between “cooked” and “raw” war literature.
And before I forget, if you aren’t tracking <i>Time
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thought on war literature that you can find anywhere on the Interwebz. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pete, and he’s a smart guy with informed opinions about the nature of war
stories. His latest post was a great look on some recent war-related stories to
hit the wire. <i>Task and Purpose </i>ran an
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on what makes service members natural storytellers, <i>Warhorse</i> ran an essay provocatively titled “<a href="http://www.thewarhorse.org/our-stories/redemptive-power-of-lying">The
Redemptive Power of Lying</a>”, and <i>Humans
of New York</i> featured several <a href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/">veteran
narratives</a>. All are very different takes on veteran storytelling, but Molin
does a great job of breaking down what they represent by framing them within
Claude Levi-Strauss’s concept of “raw” vs. “cooked” art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The metaphor is fairly self-explanatory, and Molin
explicitly avoids placing inherent value to either. To him, they’re reference
points that help us understand how to evaluate war literature. For example, <i>American Sniper </i>would be a “raw” piece,
versus <i>Redeployment</i>, which is most decidedly
“cooked.” The former focuses on tough aspects of combat, the familiar “war is
hell” tropes; the latter is more careful, considerate, and complex. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Molin’s take is decidedly cooked (in a good way),
and complicated my own opinions on war literature. I consisted for years on a
steady diet of raw war writing. They are stories that captivate the imagination
and have wide popular appeal, but the same simplicity that made those books
great reads eventually frustrated me. Namely because I could not find a way to
frame my own experiences in the same way. And if I couldn’t do that, I had to
wonder if my experience was worth writing at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cooked war writing taught me there was a lot of
room for narratives not dominated by battle and carnage. But in doing so, I may
have shortchanged the value of the raw stuff. Looking back on a lifetime of war
literature, it’s hard to imagine being able to capture the full range of the
wartime experience without having consumed both. Benjamin Busch’s <i>Dust to Dust </i>will never be as widely
read as the shoot-em-up stuff. But I don’t think I could write about war
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Molin’s metaphorical take is valuable, if only for
its obvious truth: a well-rounded diet includes both raw and cooked foods. It’s
a valuable lesson for any writer: don’t limit what you read (or write for that
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PALMER | Saturday, <b>August 20</b> at Fireside Books a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd Turkey Red. Reading at the bookstore at 4 PM, and <b>dinner with the author</b> at Turkey Red at 6 PM. Tickets for dinner are $30 and can be purchased at Fireside Books or <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001A0YuaqKpB5fmye19MSdx1uu_wLe55q29ByrW8IKcC1xv6j4L5xq1L1oT3i4Zg0QXlTImgpS14qt7se3kM4SiMqjlF_rkoFCQydFjIQ0b8iKLBGW8TC-tqwKXl-d-V22-TjS93ggkuRPTJPeUGqXGgVWpJ2KPqttwd0xnuOj0XjBCenAJfCzYye41Jd9r_i3VuyhRb4KnJ1zgFnVWt4zCOGmqCtIUkq3z3neXZAt_Rrkg2M3bMLjVpQ==&c=6q3qew1oYzYhFRYDXI1Jdi1RXDHF1EgY4b2CbRtUk8HgzNHXqaMKtw==&ch=59Nl8YtsSCU1u6aU53hEhptaLD06bADqnPgd79EwUA-etpO_xS9Llw==" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Dan O’Neill has written three books of literary non-fiction. <i>A Land Gone Lonesome </i>is literary travel writing centered on a canoe trip along the Yukon River. The Alaska Library Association selected it as 2006’s best book on Alaska, published anywhere, and <i>The New York Times Book Review </i>awarded it an “Editor’s Choice.”</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">His first book, a political history called <i>The Firecracker Boys</i>, also won the Library Association’s best book award, and for it Dan was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society.</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">In between, he wrote <i>The Last Giant of Beringia</i>, which blends the biography of a unique scholar with an explication of his scientific work on the Bering Land Bridge. <i>The Times</i> (London) called it “a beautiful and engrossing book…a wonderful integration of science and history.”</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">The University of Alaska Press has just released his first children’s book: <i>Stubborn Gal: The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer</i>. </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Dan was born in San Francisco, educated at U.C. Berkeley, and moved to Alaska 40 years ago. There, he studied creative writing, worked construction jobs, built log cabins, hunted, fished, trapped, and ran dogs. He and his wife once ran their teams 800 miles to Nome. As research associate at the University of Alaska’s Oral History Program, he produced radio and television documentaries for public broadcasting. For several years he wrote a column of political opinion for the Fairbanks daily newspaper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">ANCHORAGE | The <b>Alaska Humanities Forum</b> will welcome <b>John Luther Adams </b>for a series of events as part of the <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0707f7; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/centennial" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative</a></span> to celebrate excellence in journalism and the arts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0707f7; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://johnlutheradams.net/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John Luther Adams</a> </span><span style="color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a composer and author whose life and work </span><span style="color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">is </span><span style="color: #333230; font-weight: normal;">deeply rooted in the natural world—especially in Alaska, </span><span style="color: #333230; font-weight: normal;">where he lived for forty years before moving to New York City </span><span style="color: #333230; font-weight: normal;">in 2015. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230;">Adams was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for music </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230;">for his symphonic work <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Become Ocean</span>, and a 2015 Grammy </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230;">Award for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.” He has </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taught widely, including at Harvard University and the Oberlin </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conservatory, and served as composer in residence with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333230; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anchorage Symphony, Anchorage Opera, Fairbanks Symphony, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333230;">Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and APRN. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The public is invited to a series of three free events during John Luther Adams' visit to Anchorage; you can also <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0707f7; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.konr1061.org/listen-online.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tune in to 106.1 FM KONR</a> </span>to listen to selected works from september 1-7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FAIRBANKS | Fairbanks Arts Association hosts the oldest </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">literary reading series</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in the state. Every month, writers reading their own work publicly at a community meet-up where people can connect with other lovers of literature. Readings are held on the day after First Friday, </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">usually the first Saturday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of the month at </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7 pm</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Most reading are held in the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park, although occasionally in the summer (June, July, and August) the weather is beautiful reading are held outside to another spot in Pioneer Park. Upcoming: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">JUNEAU | Introducing Juneau’s anonymous poetry publication, <b>MYTH Zine</b>, currently available at </span><span style="color: #454545;">The Rookery Café, Kindred Post, Alaska Robotics, The JACC, Rainy Retreat Books, The Goldtown Nickelodeon, and High Tide Tattoo. Send your poetry, prose, philosophical wonderings, or love letters to </span><a href="mailto:myythzine@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">myythzine@gmail.com</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">DYEA | Reading and Printmaking Demo at <b>Alderworks</b>, Sunday, August 21, 2 PM: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EAST COAST and UK | After launching her new book, <i><b>To the Bright Edge of the World</b> </i>in Palmer, <b>Eowyn Ivey </b>headed to the west coast to promote her book. She's made it to the east coast, now, and soon heads to the UK on a whirlwind book tour. <a href="http://eowynivey.com/events/" target="_blank">Full schedule here</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BOTHELL, WASHINGTON | A <em><b>Cirque</b> </em>reading will be held on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1988122462" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><b>August 19</b>, 5:30 pm</span></span>, at Tsuga Gallery on Main Street. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CirqueJournal/?fref=ts" target="_blank">more info</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON | A <i><b>Cirque</b> </i>reading will be held at the Mount Baker Theater, Encore Room, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1988122463" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><b>August 28</b>,<b> </b>at 3 pm. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CirqueJournal/?fref=ts" target="_blank">more info</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANCHORAGE | This year's conference is a partnership between Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. This all-day event takes place at the <span style="color: #221e1f;">BP Energy +<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference Center and includes </span>keynotes and panels, as well as writing craft, marketing, traditional publishing, self publishing, children's literature, illustration tracks. <span style="color: #221e1f;">Sign up for optional Intensives or Roundtable Critiques, or take advantage of One-on-One Manuscript Excerpt Reviews. Early bird discount extended until July 31st at only $95 for AWG/49 Writers/SCBWI members or $145 for non-members. More info and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.alaskawritersguild.com/2016-conference">registration here</a>. </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: 1.5pt;"><span style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;">In early August, the Alaska State Council on the Arts will seek nominations for the </span></span><strong style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0px;">2017 Governor's Awards for the Arts</strong><span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0px;">, as well as the next </span><strong style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0px;">Alaska State Writer Laureate.</strong></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The deadline for nominations for Governor's Awards for the Arts is</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1986609640" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 15, 2016</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and nominations for State Writer Laureate will be accepted through </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1986609641" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 3, 2016</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, the categories for the Governor's Awards for the Arts are: </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arts Education, Individual Artist, Arts Org</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anization</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alaska Native Arts</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities ceremony will be held in Juneau on Thursday, January 26, 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visit ASCA's website </span><a alt="https://education.alaska.gov/aksca/govawards.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZHwGgmT-NcJcLYLMDmuHHdZIMpyK5-fagORyn1EZItawjmbmbehxktJGM04mBwynAWMJ5tSgzuXMkY6OXmoXs0Isi4SsSBNWuAS6Ik-yVr-AUyfkooRLtTxHpK1JVbqH_b-GCjTcJ8ro6tjElJ9dCOw%3D%3D%26c%3D_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw%3D%3D%26ch%3D6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1469132325491000&usg=AFQjCNHt4ai0HrGawWsff7wnVZQ13R3KCA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZHwGgmT-NcJcLYLMDmuHHdZIMpyK5-fagORyn1EZItawjmbmbehxktJGM04mBwynAWMJ5tSgzuXMkY6OXmoXs0Isi4SsSBNWuAS6Ik-yVr-AUyfkooRLtTxHpK1JVbqH_b-GCjTcJ8ro6tjElJ9dCOw==&c=_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw==&ch=6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for information about last year's Governor's Awardees, and </span><a alt="https://education.alaska.gov/aksca/literature.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZkdd-G-rO_8JHFDyJV4-Qd7zYMGejhTQXkJUdWUJYIZyn5K24XlZ7R0ufNPB10xQm5XoTO42llyk1YpkuokPYPk4uAFTSEhRZHqNRpu7y7KrhVDLwGIlUqR0nG6gxRB1yPbxUk894VXBg97NzZA7QLw%3D%3D%26c%3D_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw%3D%3D%26ch%3D6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1469132325491000&usg=AFQjCNEdT5LEkaQVyzG4lUO2_QSoXW8VYA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-cQhAxR7c4aACxt5CIZvzI5H7kKBR6Vt2ojPL3qjVbhLHFEIhzTM3eAkroduC4fZkdd-G-rO_8JHFDyJV4-Qd7zYMGejhTQXkJUdWUJYIZyn5K24XlZ7R0ufNPB10xQm5XoTO42llyk1YpkuokPYPk4uAFTSEhRZHqNRpu7y7KrhVDLwGIlUqR0nG6gxRB1yPbxUk894VXBg97NzZA7QLw==&c=_6hrpxLjGCBQfr1daPaVjUbmRfaiu6kqycdF7SHIDhSHi6SCbu8puw==&ch=6XNdGS_8QnJPlAXdoymOGNN29xWrWFMrv7iiFWg9-NCyaqm-BVl4og==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the Alaska State Writer Laureate program.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Ghostwriting opportunity </b>| A search is underway to find an experienced ghostwriter to write a series of twelve non-fiction articles for publication. These articles will be about the history of an immigrant family arriving in Alaska in the late '40s. The selected ghostwriter will be expected to agree on the proposed content and timeline for a series of articles and then interview the client and develop the articles from the interviews. Interested writers are invited to provide a CV, recent examples of work as a ghostwriter, demonstration of the ability to write in the client’s voice, examples/references which show an ability to meet deadlines and communicate effectively and efficiently, references which show an ability to work well with a client to enable a sharing of ideas, fact checking and research skills, pay rate, ability to discuss ideas and research with the client in a non-judgmental way; description of process to give the client the opportunity to approve, ask questions and give feedback on the material, and agreement to sign a nondisclosure a</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">greement. If interested, please send questions, documents, and/or your rates to 13gwriter13@gmail.com by </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1384742376" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, September 13, 2016</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMWaPHiXrj9T8vAokmZSRju5YJNm3jb6Y-ndMdLVjTpZdLgT2StWPhp0FjH8l7_SI8So0Nq0R3pxMIwhIWjlinq9ge8WismzIirjhrk_dWI50lWa9oJf3z-DZ9u2McM3AKDus17Qlp_5e/s1600/The+SealEaters+Covers--Front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMWaPHiXrj9T8vAokmZSRju5YJNm3jb6Y-ndMdLVjTpZdLgT2StWPhp0FjH8l7_SI8So0Nq0R3pxMIwhIWjlinq9ge8WismzIirjhrk_dWI50lWa9oJf3z-DZ9u2McM3AKDus17Qlp_5e/s400/The+SealEaters+Covers--Front.jpg" width="261" /></a><em><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Torq remembered the whale killers hunting the seals. The time they were on the ice with the seals and the whales came by was terrifying to him. Worse was the time the whale killers swam past their little boats chasing a seal. They caught it and tossed it in the air near them. Torq was terrified that they might toss it into the boat and then crash the boat to retrieve it. The whale killer that swam right by the edge of his boat looking him in the eyes was the most terrifying of all. It was as if the enormous animal could look right down to the secret part of his spirit where his fear lay, pull it up, examine it, and toss it away as not being worth the while. He had felt dismissed. </span></em><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">(Bonnye Matthews, <em>The SealEaters, 20,000 BC</em>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">The SealEaters, 20,000 BC</span></em><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> is the final novel in the Winds of Change series on the peopling of the Americas before 11,700 years ago. The series, informed by five years of research, is based on the find of a spearpoint that originated in France and dated to 22,760 years ago. A scallop boat net retrieved the spearpoint and associated mammoth jaw off the coast of Virginia in 1971 under 240 feet of water. The concept of Solutrean migration was born, espoused by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter. The origin of the Clovis point remains unknown. Much similarity between the Solutrean and Clovis technology exists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The excerpt that follows tells of events leading up to the marriage of Shaaw Tlaa (Kate) to prospector George Carmack, who took credit for the discovery of gold in the Klondike.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">…both [Shaaw Tláa’s husband] Kult’ús and
her daughter fell sick, most likely in the late summer or early fall of 1886. As
with each wave of disease that passed through coastal villages—smallpox,
scarlet fever, measles, mumps, influenza—the long-haired “Indian doctors”
proved mostly helpless, no matter how many blankets were offered in exchange
for their assistance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a traditional remedy, there was Skookum
Root, coming from a plant that grew high in the mountains, with a sturdy stalk
and glossy, long leaves. When digging the root, Shaaw Tláa knew to speak to it
with respect: “Grandmother, I want you to do your best for my husband and
daughter. Do your best. I’m picking you for medicine.”<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> </span>When the Skookum
Root failed to cure Kult’ús and their daughter, Shaaw Tláa likely called on the
missionaries, despite conflicting ideas about whether they cured or caused such
sickness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But nothing could save her husband and
daughter. Statistically, their deaths were part of a mortality rate that,
according the governor of Alaska, indicated “the gradual extinction of the
native people.” In grief, Shaaw Tláa blackened her face with charcoal and joined in the
mourning songs which, with their slow, sad tempo, made a trail for the dead to
find their way to the afterworld. Of the food shared by her coastal relatives, she threw some in the fire, feeding
it to the spirits of her departed husband and child. Following cremation, their
ashes were stored in a wooden chest inside a spirit house, surrounded by a
fence to keep their restless spirits contained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite her loss, Shaaw Tláa bore her
grief stoically, knowing that if she cried too much, the souls of her husband
and child would lose their way to the other world. On the fourth day after her husband’s
death, she hung his moose hide belt in a spruce tree to ensure that her next
husband would live long. After a Crow woman combed and washed her hair, she was
free from a widow’s restrictions, though for a full year neither she nor anyone
else was to mention the name of her husband or child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By tradition, the elders of the Wolf moiety—or
Eagles, as they are called on the coast—would have decided whom Shaaw Tláa
should next marry; in all likelihood, her new husband would be a relative of Kult’ús.
But Shaaw Tláa’s mother had already lost too many children. She sent for her
daughter to come home. It was there, on the inland side of the mountains, that George
Carmack would become part of Shaaw Tláa’s life—but not before he first married
someone else. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Co-founder of <a href="http://www.49writingcenter.org/"><span style="color: blue;">49 Writers</span></a>
and founder of the independent authors cooperative Running Fox Books, <a href="http://www.debvanasse.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Deb Vanasse</span></a> has
authored seventeen books. Among the most recent are <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Write-Your-Best-Book-Author-ebook/dp/B00RNQ6XKU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1423175689&sr=8-5&keywords=deb+vanasse"><span style="color: blue;">Write Your Best Book</span></a>, a practical guide to
writing books that rise above the rest; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Spell-University-Alaska-Press/dp/1602232423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394921893&sr=8-1&keywords=deb+vanasse+cold+spell"><span style="color: blue;">Cold Spell</span></a>, a novel that </span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“captures the harsh
beauty of the terrain as well as the strain of self-doubt and complicated
family bonds; and the “deeply researched and richly imagined” biography <a href="http://www.katecarmack.net/"><span style="color: blue;">Wealth Woman.</span></a> After thirty-six years in Alaska,
she now lives on the north coast of Oregon, between Astoria and Seaside.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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