Let Skagway inspire You

Aug 2-Aug 4, 2020 | Keynote Author: Bill Streever

Let Skagway inspire You

Aug 2-Aug 4, 2020 | Keynote Author: Bill Streever

Let Skagway inspire You

Aug 2-Aug 4, 2020 | Keynote Author: Bill Streever

“Writing at a time of a threatened natural world”

2020 Keynote Speaker

Click on each author for a short biography.

2020 Faculty Members

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Panel Discussion Topics 2019

2020 North Words Panel Topics

Special Theme: Writing at a time of a threatened natural world.

Writing while the world burns: 

How to stand witness to challenges, change, and turmoil. Why do it at all?

Seeing your words in black-and-white:

The shifting dimensions of getting published.

The writer’s role as a source of hope:

          From all these urgent, tragic, troubling stories—where is the light?

 Making science stick among skeptics:

          Data is real, stupid. Or is it? What was the question?

 Stitching characters’ lives into a coherent fabric:

The quest to show purpose and place among relationships. 

 Writing with risk:

          Why should you try? What happens if you do? 

The performance side:

          Your words—live and in person—flung at others.

Faculty Publications

Alaska/NW Faculty 2019 Selected Works

These authors will be signing books following the Faculty Reading on Thursday night.

ERNESTINE HAYES

www.ernestinehayes.com

Blonde Indian, an Alaska Native Memoir • The Tao of Raven

JONATHAN EVISON

jonathanevison.net

Lawn Boy • West of Here • The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving • This Is Your Life Harriet Chance! • All About Lulu

NANCY LORD

writernancylord.com

ph: A Novel • Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project • Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North • Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life • Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale • The Man Who Swam with Beaver

DON REARDEN

www.donrearden.com

The Raven’s Gift • Never Quit (with Jimmy Settle)

EMILY WALL

www.emily-wall.com

Liveaboard  • Freshly Rooted • Breaking Into Air:  Birth Poems (forthcoming) • Letters from Mary • With Reverence

TERRENCE COLE

Fighting for the 49th Star • E.T. Barnette • Crooked Past • Banking in Alaska • Swiftwater Bill Gates

North Words Writers Symposium Schedule

Special Pre-North Words Book Event

July 28, 2020 • 4-5 pm ADT

Reading from their new books:

Eva Holland, author of Nerve

Heather Lende, author of Of Bears and Ballots

plus special guest Amy Gash, editor of Heather’s books at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

This virtual event will be hosted by Jeff Brady from our

independent bookstore sponsor Skaguay News Depot & Books.

Connect to link for this FREE Zoom session at www.skagwaybooks.com 

Virtual North Words Schedule

August 2-4, 2020

Special Theme: Writing at a time of a threatened natural world.

For Zoom access, register at https://www.nwwriterss.com

($98 for full conference, or $35 per day)

 Faculty: Keynote Bill Streever,

Heather Lende, M Jackson, Eva Holland,

Caroline Van Hemert, Bryan Fierro, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell

Your Hosts:

Daniel Henry, Jeff Brady, Kent Fielding, Katrina Woolford

Special Thanks to these Hosting Venues:

Alderworks Alaska Writers & Artists Retreat, Skagway Public Library, Skagway Convention & Visitors Bureau (AB Hall), Red Onion Saloon

 

Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020

6-9 PM (Alaska time)

Live from Alderworks in Dyea, Alaska

6-6:30 PM

Open Zoom Reception/Introductions/Buckwheat Memories

6:30-7:45 PM

Writing While The World Burns:

How to stand witness to challenges, change, and turmoil.

Why do it at all?

Panel: Bill (lead), Heather, Caroline, Eva, Bryan, Nicole, M

7:45-8 PM

Social Break / Stretch Time / Barnyard Tour

8-9 PM

 Making Science Stick Among Skeptics:

Data is real, stupid. Or is it? What was the question?

Panel: M (lead), Caroline, Bill, Eva

 

Monday, Aug. 3, 2020

1-4 PM (Alaska time)

Live from downtown Skagway, Alaska venues

Co-hosted by Jeff (AB Hall), Kent (Library), Dan (Red Onion)

Jeff will start the meeting and then send to Kent at library.

Workshop can stretch to 2:15 if more time needed.

1-2 PM • Skagway Public Library

Writing Workshop

Virtual workshop led by Nicole and M

2:15-2:30 PM • Broadway Bound

Social Break / Stretch Time

2:30-3:30 PM • AB Hall

Writing With Risk:

          Why should you try? What happens if you do? 

Panel: Eva (lead), Nicole, Heather

3:30-4 PM • Red Onion Saloon

Wrap-up with RO ghosts

Follow Dan wherever he goes! 

 

Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020

6-9 PM (Alaska time)

Keynote Eve Live from Alderworks in Dyea, Alaska

6-6:30 PM

Open Zoom Reception/Alderworks Tour

6:30-8:30 PM

Keynote by Bill Streever

“What It Is to be a Writer Today”

Q&A to follow remarks, leading into final panel discussion

(after 5 minute break)

The Writer’s Role as a Source of Hope

From all these urgent, tragic, troubling stories—where is the light?

Panel co-leaders: Heather, Caroline, Bryan

8:30-9 PM

Wrap-up by North Words organizers, final thoughts