SUMMER WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

This summer, 49 Writers will be focusing on planning and gearing up for our busy fall season. If a special workshop opportunity comes along, however, we will be sure to let you know. Meanwhile, consider these great opportunities offered by a couple of our partners.

TUTKA BAY WILDERNESS LODGE
FOOD, NATURE & THE WRITER'S WILD MIND
Cook 'n Scribble at Tutka Bay Wilderness Lodge, Homer
July 12 to 16, 2012

Led by Molly O'Neill, essayist, food writer, and memoirist, this intimate retreat offers participants a unique opportunity to delve into the sensory aspects of food writing. Through timed writing exercises, as well as instruction by three masters of the craft, Cook 'n Scribble at Tutka Bay aims to keen the senses and the expand the writer's awareness of the rhythms and realities of the natural world and its affect on voice and point-of-view in food narrative, personal essay, blog posts, and memoir. Joining Molly are Shauna James Ahern and Hank Shaw, as well as Tutka Bay proprietor and James Beard nominee Kirsten Dixon. Click here for more information and to register. Cook 'n Scribble will donate some of the proceeds to 49 Writers, and we are also planning a community event with the visiting writers - updates to be posted when more details available.

WRANGELL MOUNTAINS CENTER CLASSES
This year we are partnering with the Wrangell Mountains Center to offer
their Summer 2012 Writing Workshops at a 10 percent discount for members of 49 Writers.

DANCING THE GREAT DIVIDE
With Justin Torres, visiting writer, and Nancy Cook, program director
15th Annual Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop in partnership with 49 Alaska Writing Center
July 27 to August 2, 2012

Don't miss this intimate (16 participants maximum) mixed-genre workshop in the inspiring setting of the nonprofit Wrangell Mountains Center and surrounding Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. During this week-long adventure, fiction writers, essayists, and poets alike will walk—and sometimes dance—the overemphasized divide between literary genres. Click here for more information and to register.

STRANGENESS: A POETRY WORKSHOP IN ACCURACY'S PARADOX
With Dan Beachy-Quick, visiting writer, and Jeremy Pataky, executive director
2nd Annual Wrangell Mountains Poetry Workshop in partnership with 49 Alaska Writing Center
August 12-17, 2012

Poetry is a means of mapping not only the environment we find ourselves in, but is also a method of charting inner territories, the environment we find within ourselves—self, memory, and imagination. Poets of all experience are invited to gather in the Alaskan town of McCarthy to write, read, and discuss while exploring inner and outer landscapes. Click here for more information and to register.
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TUTKA BAY WRITERS WORKSHOP
Don't forget that there is still time to sign up for our Tutka Bay Writers Workshop with Pam Houston, September 7-9. The early bird discount applies until May 15.

FALL 2012 WRITING WORKSHOPS
We will be posting our fall offerings soon - check this page for more information after June 15.