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From our “Publish and Promote” series to plot, poetry, submissions, and more, we’ve got something for everyone. Make 2012 the year you get serious about writing! Our spring line-up includes our first course taught in Palmer, Writing Your Place.
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GREAT GIFTS
Thanks to a generous donation by Tom Sexton, we’re offering limited edition autographed broadsides of two John Haines poems. Another great gift: 49 Writers Gift Vouchers, good for one year on fees for classes, and retreats.

 

CROSSCURRENTS
Fantastic, Historic, Unconventional: Crossing Literary Fiction Boundaries
Eowyn Ivey and Andromeda Romano-Lax
February 22, 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Auditorium
Debut author Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) joins Andromeda Romano-Lax (The Spanish Bow, The Detour) for an onstage conversation about their internationally published novels and their approach to fiction as Alaskan writers.
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WRITE YOUNG ALASKA (WYAK)
WYAK YOUNG WRITERS GROUPS
Ages 12-14 Monday, February 27, 6:30–8:00 pm
Teen Underground, Loussac Library
Bring your poems, stories, and other writing to share.
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Write Young Alaska is looking for teen volunteers!
Brainstorm ideas, share feedback, spread the word about WYAK activities and more– check it out here! 

READING AND CRAFT TALK SERIES
Joan Kane
In Other Words: Poetry in Translation
Tuesday, March 6, 7:00-8:30 pm
Metro Books 
Joan  will talk about the function of translation work in generating new poems and revisiting bodies of writing. 
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SYNERGIES
Of Cormorants and Ghosts
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00-8:30 pm
Anchorage Museum, Chugach Gallery, 4th Floor 
Join nationally-acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and our own Joan Kane of Anchorage for a reading, book signing and after party. 
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