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Local Contest Offers $9000 in prizes
Speculate on this: You’ve got another month to get your stories on paper for the Ralph Williams Prize for Speculative Fiction. The deadline has been changed to May 1, 2008. For more information, see the Alaska Writers Guild site. The contest is organized by the Alaska Writers Guild and is part of the workup to the unprecedented October 2008 Speculative Fiction Conference (see below). Show your support to this organization by joining; they’re working hard.

KTOO Radio Seeks Writers
Creative nonfiction writer Ginny Mahar, of Juneau, invites writers, storytellers and poets to contribute to her spoken-word show “Letters from the North.” View guidelines and archives at the Letters from the North blog.

AlaskaWriters Editor Puts Pen Where Her Mouth Is...
A book co-authored by AlaskaWriters editor Sonya Senkowsky and Amanda Coyne is due out at the end of March 2008. Alaska Then & Now: Anchorage, Juneau & Fairbanks is a photographic journey through the past and present of Alaska’s biggest cities. (It’s also an example of a project that came about as a result of Web marketing.)

Sumner on crossing over:
writing fiction and nonfiction
Former Alaskan Sandi Sumner is keeping her pen busy in Colorado: After appearing at a March 9 panel “Check My Pulse: Adventure Crime,” at the Left Coast Crime Conference, she will talk about crossing genres, from nonfiction to fiction, at a writers’ meeting in Cripple Creek, CO, April 13, location to be announced. Look for her to return to Anchorage .August 6-9 at the “Ninety-Nines’ Women Pilots International Conference, where she will speak and sign books.

Best Women’s Travel Writing ’07 to include story by Barbara Brown
In 2003, AlaskaWriters member Barbara Brown toured waterparks across the country with her daughter. Now, one of a collection of stories she wrote from that experience has been selected to appear in the Best Women’s Travel Writing 2007. Congratulations, Barbara! Visit her site to read an excerpt, or read below to see how to be part of this busy writer’s next project.

Got any spare thoughts to share?
“Imagine a thought -- a little, daily, one-minute thought with the power to change the world.” So begins the latest Barbara Brown writing/thought experiment. She is asking for contributors to submit thoughts for public radio broadcast, for daily podcasts, and for a national website. If you are a connoisseur of quotes and can provide them in increments of no more than 1 minute-15-seconds, check out Barbara Brown’s Web site for more.

New member: Nancy Owens Barnes
Welcome to Nancy Owens Barnes, author of South to Alaska, the tale of her father Melvin’s perilous solo 10,000-mile journey from Arkansas to Alaska in a boat he built in his backyard. “Barnes washes the grit of Depression-era farm life into a gentle current of beauty and inspiration for anyone who has ever had a dream.” Check out Nancy Owens Barnes' South to Alaska site.

Harry Turtledove among authors coming to Anchorage in '08
Science fiction/fantasy authors Harry Turtledove, Jennifer Roberson and Melanie Rawn are among the faculty confirmed for the October '08 Speculative Fiction Conference in Anchorage. Harry Turtledove is a science fiction & fantasy author who is best known for writing alternate history. Roberson is author of 24 novels, including the 6-volume Sword Dancer saga. Rawn's most recent novel, Spellbinder, is a tale of witchcraft and romance set in modern day New York. Speculative fiction encompasses everything from alternate histories to science fiction to horror. For more information, see the Alaska Writers Guild site.

Meet with AKRWA for critiques: weekly meetings open to members
Would you like to warm up your romance writing skills? Consider the Alaska Romance Writers of America. In addition to regular monthly meetings, the Eagle River-based group offers weekly critique meetings on Tuesdays for current members. For more information, visit the AKRWA site.

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AlaskaWriter member sites:
>> Alaska Press Club
>> Alaska Professional Communicators (formerly Alaska Press Women)
>> Alaska Romance Writers of America
>> Alaska Writers Guild
>> Alaska Writers Workshop
>> Barbara Brown
>> Nancy Owens Barnes
>> Kathy Day Public Relations
>> Sandi Gerjevic
>> Anne Hanley
>> Linda Herr - The Mess Arrester-^SM
>> Marybeth Holleman
>> Heather Lende
>> Nancy Lord
>> Rose Marie Mayer
>> Jim Misko
>> Elise Sereni Patkotak - Precious Cargo Ltd.
>> Pocket Quick Bread (Diane Hagemeister)
>> Rupert Pratt
>> Marguerite Reiss (Kern)
>> Andromeda Romano-Lax
>> Sonya Senkowsky - AlaskaWriter LLC
>> Bill Sherwonit
>> Sandi Sumner
>> Lesley Thomas

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>> Unity of Anchorage
>> Mary Barrett Creations
>> Laughing Raven Touring Co. (AlaskaWildlife Tours)
>> When You Were 15 Alaska