Fairbanks, Alaska poet and teacher Nicole Stellon O’Donnell has written a charming blog entry for the Alaska author blog 49 Writers. The post is an analysis of the illustration on the title page of Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day?, which was published in 1968 for pre-schoolers. She writes: I love the book …
Big congrats to Debby Dahl Edwardson, whose new young adult book, My Name is Not Easy, was named as one of the finalists for a National Book Award today. Check out the trailer for her book < Winslips – Amazing Lottery Application! a title=”Edwardson trai The Dark Side Of Fat Loss ler” href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcsxHUgdymQ”>here. The Barrow, Alaska author …
Thanks to the good folks at 49 Writers in Alaska, we learned about this wonderful article in the New York Times from May 29, proselytizing the joys of catching a poet in “midcareer.” After using a great baseball analogy to describe what it’s like to read a seasoned poet, the Times highlights exactly five recent …
49 Writers is a six-month-old collaborative of Alaskan writers who maintain an interesting blog, and a local writing center. Yes, the are ambitious. They recently announced their Book Bag 2010 Fundraiser, based on an idea stolen from Ayelet Waldman: “We need your help to sell our 50 Corvax McCarthy raven logo tote bags
Our friends at 49 Writers: Collaborative Reflections & Book News By and About Alaskan Authors are starting to celebrate their upcoming six month anniversary. Congratulations! Of course, six months on the internet is not exactly a lifetime, but in our book world, it ain’t sytrofoam peanuts! We love what you do and hope to see …
Our inventive friends at 49 Writers in Alaska have stopped accepting entries for their annual Ode to Dead Salmon contest. Now they are asking their readers to VOTE for the best by Monday, August 23, after having narrowed the field to the final three. It’s a marvelous trio, too, in three very distinct styles, all …
I had never heard of Rich Chiappone until I saw the cover of his book, Opening Days, advertised on 49 Writers, a wonderful blog subtitled “Collaborative Reflections and Book News By and About Alaskan Authors.” Opening Days was published in June by Barclay Creek Press, a small literary press founded in 2008 to publish “quality …
