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Past Featured Authors

2011
Sherry Simpson
Marybeth Holleman
Craig Medred
Eowyn Ivey 
Ken Waldman
Gerri Brightwell
James McLain
Susanna Mishler
Mike Kincaid
Anne Coray
Kris Farmen
Jo-Ann Mapson


2010
Joan Kane
Mary Katzke
Barry Zellen
Kim Rich
Heather Lende
Charles Wohlforth
Rich Chiappone
Cinthia Richie
Peggy Shumaker
Don Rearden
Tricia Brown
Tom Sexton

2009
Bill Sherwonit,
Marybeth Holleman
David Vann
Brett Dillingham
Dana Stabenow
Ann Dixon
Ned Rozell
Ann Chandonnet
John Morgan
Ken Waldman
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Tutka Bay Retreat now full!

Tutka Bay Retreat now full!
(Photo by Adam Karsten) You can still catch Pam in Anchorage at our Crosscurrents event, Sept 6, and performing with Emma Hill, Sept 16

Forms of Feeling: Essays by John Morgan

Forms of Feeling: Essays by John Morgan
"Precisely located, mostly in Alaska, this prose is life-giving, grounded and smart." ~ Peggy Shumaker

The Snow Child

The Snow Child
"A captivating mix of melancholy and whimsy" - The Washington Post "It has a magic both terrible and beautiful." - The Chicago Tribune

Cirque

Cirque
Winter Solstice 2011 Issue Now Online

Alaska Quarterly Review

Alaska Quarterly Review
"That one of the nation's best literary magazines comes out of Alaska may seem surprising, but so it is." -- The Washington Post Book World

May featured author Ross Coen

May featured author Ross Coen

2012 Featured Authors

January, Vivian Faith Prescott
February, Teri Sloat
March, Maia Nolan-Partnow
April, David Marusek
May, Ross Coen
June, Nicole O'Donnell
July, Amy O'Neill Houck
August, Lucian Childs
September, Kathleen Tarr
October APU students
November, APU students
December, Jen Funk Weber

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Deb is the author of nine Alaskan books, published by Penguin, Houghton-Mifflin, Globe-Pequot, Sasquatch Books, and the University of Alaska Press. She has lived in Alaska for over 30 years, and she's in love with this place.

Andromeda is the author of THE SPANISH BOW, a novel about classical musicians in Spain, as well as a dozen travel and natural history books, most of them about Alaska. Her second novel, THE DETOUR, set in 1938 Italy, will be published by Soho Press in February 2012.

Linda completed her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage in spring 2012. Prior to joining 49 Writers she worked or volunteered for a variety of Alaska nonprofit organizations promoting everything from literacy to libraries.



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Deb's latest from University of Alaska Press

Deb's latest from University of Alaska Press
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Andromeda's new novel
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  • ►  2012 (99)
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      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Your Turn: Your Plans for a Literary Summer
      • Ross Coen: The Aerial View
      • Deb: Life into Story
      • North Words Writers Symposium: A Guest Post by Hea...
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Ross Coen: The First Person Bad Trip
      • Deb: Ready, Set…Market?
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Andromeda: Serendipity; or In the Rain, Looking fo...
      • Ross Coen: On Historical Memory
      • Deb: Wise Words - Janet Fitch on Dialogue
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Andromeda: Do You Storyboard?
      • Ross Coen: A historian's disclaimer
      • Child’s Play: The Lyric Moment
    • ►  April (19)
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Andromeda/Your Turn: Should I Be Telling You This?...
      • David Marusek: Tootin' Your Own Horn
      • Deb: That Pot of Gold - What to Do about Endings
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • The latest AQR, a stunning anniversary issue: Gues...
      • David Marusek: Cover Story
      • Deb: Window into Your Characters
      • Midnight Sun Arctic Moon: Lizbeth Meredith intervi...
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      • If you've been reading this blog, you know we've ...
      • David Marusek: Quick and Dirty Ebook Conversion
      • Deb: On the Road with Our Characters
      • Alaska Spring: Lorelei Costa Interviews Tom Sexton...
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      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • David Marusek: Much Ado About Ebooks
      • Deb: Metaphor, with All Due Respect
      • Postscript from Emily Wall
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      • Nolan-Partnow: Mechanics Matter--Writers and the F...
      • Deb: Getting the Distance
      • Online Poetry Discussion Today, 1:00 to 5:00 PM
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      • Vivian Faith Prescott: Time for Poetry This Sunday...
      • Maia Nolan-Partnow: To blog or not to blog?
      • Deb: The Bounce
      • Writing to William and to Terry: A Guest Post by E...
      • Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
      • Andromeda: Judging Covers
      • Maia Nolan-Partnow: Getting Back on the Horse
      • Deb: Marks of Distinction
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      • My Alaska Home: A Guest Post by Ken Waldman
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Alaskan Author Websites

  • Andromeda Romano-Lax Website
  • Deb Vanasse Website
  • 49 Alaska Writing Center (that's us on the web)
  • Alaska Dispatch (News+)
  • Alaska Writers Guild
  • Cirque
  • Commonplace UAA Creative Writing
  • Hold This Thought (KSKA program)
  • Lit Site Alaska (UAA & AK Lit Consortium)
  • Rasmuson Foundation
  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - Alaska
  • Title Wave (Alaska's Independent Bookstore)
  • Wrangell Mountains Center
  • Sue Ann Bowling
  • Barbara Brown (Writer, Radio Host)
  • Arne Bue (ebooks)
  • Stuart Archer Cohen (fiction)
  • Clouddancer
  • Melissa Devaughan (Nonfiction, outdoors)
  • Ann Dixon (children's books)
  • Michael Engelhard (Travel/Nature/Essays)
  • Kris Farmen
  • Daniel Henry (Frontier Rhetorician/ nonfiction)
  • Marybeth Holleman (nonfiction)
  • Eowyn Ivey (novelist)
  • Kaylene Johnson (Sarah biographer, travel)
  • Joan Kane (poet and playwright)
  • Geoff Kirsch (fiction and media)
  • Jonas Lamb (poet)
  • Heather Lende (essays, nonfiction)
  • Nancy Lord (Alaska State Writer '08-'10)
  • Jo-Ann Mapson (Fiction)
  • David Marusek (Sci-Fi)
  • John Morgan, poet
  • Northern Light Media
  • Leslie Hsu Oh (nonfiction)
  • Doug O'Harra (Far North Science)
  • Dan O'Neill (nonfiction)
  • Vivian Prescott
  • Don Rearden (novelist)
  • Ned Rozell (nonfiction, science)
  • Basil Sands (audio and ebook)
  • Peggy Schumaker (poet, editor)
  • Sonya Senkowsky's Alaska Writers Site
  • Sherry Simpson (Nature/Travel/Nonfiction)
  • Bill Sherwonit (Nature/Outdoors)
  • Dana Stabenow (Mystery)
  • John Straley (Mystery, Alaska State Writer)
  • Stephen Stringham (Alaska wildlife)
  • Lesley Thomas (literary fiction)
  • Ray Troll (Artist/Illustrator)
  • David Vann (Fiction)
  • Ken Waldman (poet)
  • Tom Walker (photography, history)
  • Emily Wall (poet)
  • Miranda Weiss (Nonfiction)
  • Charles Wohlforth (Science, Travel)

Alaska Independent Bookstores

  • Alaskana Books, Houston
  • Fireside Books, Palmer
  • Forget Me Not Books, Fairbanks
  • Gulliver's Books, Fairbanks
  • Pandemonium Books, Wasilla
  • Parnassus Books
  • Title Wave Books, Anchorage

Alaska Blogs - Authors & Others

  • Ah, Ah Alaska
  • Alaska Bike Girl
  • Alaska Northwest Books®
  • Alaska Robotics
  • Alaska Rosalie
  • aliza sherman rants and raves
  • Counting Heads
  • Deadlines and Stopwatches Alaska
  • Erin Anais Hanson: Two-Stepping Waltzes
  • Freshly Rooted
  • KellyBlog
  • Kid Lit North: Where Ravens Roam and Writers Dream
  • Letters from Alaska » BLOOD, BONES, BUTTER & BEAR
  • Mattie's Pillow
  • Monica Devine
  • Mrs. Davis's Infinite Booklist
  • Ned Rozell's Alaskatracks
  • News
  • Northwriter
  • Own the Sidewalk
  • Planet Alaska
  • The Mudflats
  • the Unauthorized MTS Gallery Blog
  • Wasilla Alaska by 300

Reading & Writing Outside -- Industry & Writers' Resources

  • mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
  • Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent
  • The Fill in the Gaps: 100 project
  • The Elegant Variation
  • Buzz, Balls & Hype
  • BookEnds, LLC — A Literary Agency
  • Editorial Ass
  • Guide to Literary Agents
  • Editorial Anonymous
  • Bookninja
  • Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
  • National Book Critics Circle - : Roundup

49 Writers Helpful Past Posts and Favorite Links

  • 2008 Interviews with Alaska Writers
  • 49 Writers Podcast: Crash Course Characters (recorded by Juneau Public Library)
  • 49 Writers Publisher Interview
  • Agent Advice, in four parts
  • Dana Stabenow on online promotion

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