The Self-Made Writer

Last weekend, I delivered the keynote address at the Anchorage Young Writers Conference. Here, excerpts from my speech: Before I...

We love options.  Exhibit A: your neighborhood coffee stand, where baristas whip up your double tall half-decaf extra hot skinny ...

The very first workshop ever offered through  49 Writers  was called “Finding Your Voice.” With funding from the  Alaska State Council ...

On my shelves are dozens and dozens of Alaska titles in a dazzling variety of genres and styles, books I recommend often, including so...

I’ll begin with a confession: I haven’t closely followed the recent Goodreads reader-writer wars. What I gather through my informan...

It was from  David Vann  that I first learned about "aspirational authors." Soon he became one of mine. Recently released is t...

In the inaugural essay of the new “Where We Write” feature in Poets and Writers Magazine , Francine J. Harris wrote about Detroit, an u...