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April 25, 2010
Check out the Google Site I created in preparation for my May 6 presentation. It’s just a few pages offering a quick summary of some ground I’ll be covering at the talk: “5 Web Facts for Writers.”
‘49 Writers’ bloggers plan Anchorage writing center
April 23, 2010
Want to get in on the ground floor to build an Anchorage writing resource (and guest house/retreat)? Check out what ‘49 Writers’ bloggers Andromeda Romano-Lax and Deb Vanasse have got planned…
May 6: Sonya speaks on ‘How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love My Website’
April 23, 2010
Yes, I will break my long silence May 6 to speak to Alaska Professional Communicators at the organization’s contest luncheon. I’ll tell what I’ve learned from running AlaskaWriters.com and share some basics every writer needs to know to use the Web—including the care and feeding of a domain name, as well as what a website (and Twitter and Facebook) can and can’t do for you. The presentation, at the May 6 APC luncheon at Kinley’s Restaurant is titled “How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love My Website.”
‘Northwords’ anthology seeks submissions
March 29, 2010
Serial anthologist Michael Engelhard has a problem: He can’t seem to stop making anthologies. And, while normally I might suggest not encouraging this sort of obsession, the truth is that he creates beautiful, thoughtful, poetic collections. His upcoming anthology, “Northwords,” seeks submissions on writing and life in the Last Frontier. He seeks first-person essays of no more than 3,000 words that capture the humor, heartbreak, or hardship of writing on the Last Frontier. For the full call for submissions, click the link that follows.
Check out article on Bill Sherwonit’s visit to AK Pro Com
December 11, 2009
If you missed Bill Sherwonit’s December 3 talk at the Alaska Professional Communicators luncheon, you can still read up about it at the AK Pro Com website’s “Afterwords" section.
Saroyan International Prize offers $5,000 for newly published works
December 10, 2009
From Jim Misko and the Alaska Writers Guild comes a suggestion to check out the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Explore, celebrate wild nature with Bill Sherwonit
November 27, 2009
Author of Changing Paths and 11 other books, AlaskaWriters member Bill Sherwonit will speak about “exploring and celebrating wild nature” to Alaska Professional Communicators (an organization that is also a member of our site) on Thursday, December 3. Bill is the featured speaker for the luncheon, to be held in the offices of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC). Sherwonit will speak about “Exploring and Celebrating Wild Nature, from Alaska’s Urban Center to its Remote Backcountry Wilderness.”
Anchorage illustrator, musician releases flute book/CD set
November 24, 2009
A big welcome to Chris Floyd, Anchorage-based illustrator, musician and author of the recently released book and CD set, A Flock of Magpies: Celtic & Folk Melodies for Native American Flute, which he is selling straight from his AlaskaWriters-hosted website, at www.flockofmagpies.com. The website features 30-second mp3’s, so you can hear samples before buying.
Alaskans among those attempting a novel in November
November 08, 2009
The ‘NaNoWriMos’ are at it again: starting and finishing a novel in the month of November (National Novel Writing Month), no matter what it takes--and one group in Anchorage is offering encouragement through regular “write-ins.” Though so far I haven’t finished this annual writer’s marathon, I love the idea of it. Last year, I kept at it until felled by the double-whammy of a cross-country work trip and a strep-like infection. (I do treasure the memory of my airplane seatmate--at trip’s end--begging to know what it was that had kept me scribbling so hard from Seattle to North Carolina.) This year, I’m not a contender. But I encourage you to learn more about this event, which is quite literally inspirational in that it provides the inspiration most writers confess to me they need most: a DEADLINE.
Tip from Ann Chandonnet: Write What You Don’t Know
November 03, 2009
Former longtime Alaskan Ann Fox Chandonnet dropped a line from Vale, NC, where she now lives, to suggest we check out her essay in the November edition of Winoca Books & Media’s newsletter.
Changing Paths explores writer Bill Sherwonit’s relationship with Brooks Range, nature
September 28, 2009
Nature writer Bill Sherwonit, one of our pioneering AlaskaWriters members, announces the release of Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, his second literary nonfiction book to be released with University of Alaska Press. Read on for the press release—and be sure to keep an eye on Bill’s website, where he announces upcoming events, including his Oct. 15 book launch (Title Wave, Anchorage, 6 p.m.).
Hint: If after reading his book, you’re inspired to try nature-writing, the author also teaches a 12-week nature-writing classes; next one starts up in January 2010.
Digital Publishing and the Independent Author
September 25, 2009
Independent authors have been among the first to embrace digital publishing and distribution. When I noticed that longtime AlaskaWriters.com subscriber Justin Oldham had become an author available on my Kindle, I asked if he would share the experience and some tips for others who might want to e-publish. In this story, Justin tells how and why he did it, and why he finds satisfaction —and freedom—in the format.
