Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Place: Barnes & Noble, 421 Mehar Avenue, Fairbanks
Featured Readers
Lori Yanuchi, Kim Watson, Erica Watson, Cindy Hardy, Heather Warren, Jean Anderson and Susheila Khera
The Road Not Taken | Spring 2017 Roll Call:
Katie Craney (Cover) • Charity Hommel • J.L. Smith • Deborah Poore • Dr. Carol Lee Birrell • Sherry Pederson • Wendy Brooker • AlasKat/Kat Anderson • Tania Rowe • Kathy Sievert • Tess Vandiver • Nan Potts • Margo Waring • Ray Ball • Diane DeSloover • Kimberly Watson • Vivian Faith Prescott • Barbara Johnson • Daisy Lee Bitter • Patricia Watts • Erica Watson • Megan Zlatos • Gabrielle Raffuse
Find your copy at Barnes & Noble and Independent Booksellers statewide.
AWS women writers share prose and poetry at The Living Room in Eagle River.
Time: 7:00pm – 8:45pm
Place: Jitters Coffee House 11401 Old Glenn Highway
Mix and mingle with fellow writers, listeners and readers following the reading. Thank you to our friends at The Living Room!
Featured AWS Writers
Mary Samuel is an emerging: poet, youth worker, artist, musician, educator, wanderer, sister, daughter, auntie, friend, lover, and woman from Alaska sipping tea on the west coast of Ireland on this rainy Saturday.
Wendy Brooker lives and works in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Her day (and night) job gives her the opportunity to travel around and really get to know her corner of Alaska. Most of her time is spent on report writing, but she loves to take time to write more creatively for personal expression. She is currently making queries to publish a children’s book, actually a book for young and old alike, about unconditional love.
Patricia Pierce is retired from the Alaska Air National Guard. She attends the University of Alaska Anchorage as a full time student, pursuing her dream to write. Patricia is a senior in the Undergraduate English Literature program with Creative Writing as her minor. Patricia also attends Alaska Pacific University taking an Advanced Creative Writing Workshop. Patricia has one grown daughter, two spoiled cats and a fabulous husband of 18 years. Patricia and her husband now reside in Anchorage, after they spent seven years living year round in the Kenny Lake area of Alaska.
Megan Zlatos is the Director of Grants and Special Projects at the Alaska Humanities Forum. Her career path is best described as “the scenic route”: a road that involved everything from coordinating study abroad programs in Europe to developing an employee evaluation system at Google. Her writing interests are equally eclectic.
Lois Simenson’s work has appeared in Alaska Women Speak, The Anchorage Press, Alaska Magazine, 49 Writers, Erma Bombeck Humor Writers.org, The Hill Congress Blog, and The Washington DC Metro Bugle. Her novels, The Butte Girls Club, and Otter Rock, will be forthcoming this year. Links to stories are at http://loispaigesimenson.com/
Christy Everett lives in Seward Alaska, at the end of the road, where the pavement turns to gravel and leads to the Tonsina Trail, a footpath along Resurrection Bay and the Kenai mountains. She shares stories and poetry about her life at: www.followingelias.com
Nan Potts began writing stories she created for her children. Upon moving to Alaska in 2007, she has published poetry and articles inspired by The Great Land. Currently, she is a member of the Alaska Writer’s Guild, winning Writer of the Year in 2014 and co-winner in 2016.
Alaska Women Speak is now archived in the Acquisitions Library at University of Alaska, Anchorage. Thanks to AWS volunteers and UAA for making all these back issues now available to the public!
Alaska Women Speak is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum for the first time in its 25-year history. This grant is in support of Alaska Women Speak: Telling Our Stories.
Alaska Humanities Forum’s Grant Program funds projects that connect Alaskans through stories, ideas and experiences that change lives and empower communities. “The Telling Our Stories project will greatly extend the reach of Alaska Women Speak, a literary journal devoted to sharing the ideas, literature and art of Alaska’s women. We hope that this project will introduce the publication to more women across Alaska and encourage them on their own journeys of self-expression. Through wider distribution, the stories within each issue of Alaska Women Speak will offer a springboard for connections across our diverse state,” said Kameron Perez-Verdia, CEO of the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Alaska Women Speak is incredibly honored to receive support from the Alaska Humanities Forum. On behalf of Alaska Women Speak all volunteer board and staff, we thank the Alaska Humanities Forum for their extraordinary commitment to the humanities as it relates to women’s stories.
Founded twenty-five years ago, AWS gave Alaska’s women a forum to voice their ideas, opinions and experiences. Today, the emerging and established voice and creativity of Alaska’s women are more important than ever. Our stories, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essay describe our journey, current joys and challenges and provide readers with a unique perspective of women in Alaska.