“Ya aaní káa has du shkalneegí yaa nas.áx̱”
(On this land their stories are sounding off)
2025 North Words Panels & Workshops
Subject to change. Please see schedule (coming soon) for full list of panel participants.
PANELS
1) Pathway to Publication: From big publishers to indie presses, literary journals, and in-between … or taking the self-publishing plunge
2) Editing Ourselves: How to revise, self-edit, and harmonize with professional editors
3) Research – Getting It Right: Folding facts into your story
4) Writing the North: Knowing its land and people
5) The Writer’s Life: Navigating from the page to the personal
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WORKSHOPS
Early Bird Sessions at Skagway Public Library
– Writing Action Scenes with Marc Cameron
– How to Explicate a Poem with dg nanouk okpik
Workshop Group Sessions at AB Hall
– Language of Embodiment: Trusting Your Story with Bailey Williams
– Climate Catastrophe & the Writer’s Task with Nickole Brown, followed by break-outs with Kent Fielding, X’unei Lance Twitchell, others.
Train Excursion Sessions at Denver Glacier Caboose or on the Denver Trail
– Writing by the fire with Andromeda Romano-Lax
– Trail Write with Daniel Henry
There also will be two places on the schedule for one-on-one consultations with all of our Alaska-NW faculty and three places on the schedule to read your own work!