DATE CHANGE!Join us on Wednesday, August 21 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring August’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading. Rachel Blume is a mom and writer from the Texas Gulf Coast pursuing her MFA inContinue reading “Live from Storyknife August”
Author Archives: Erin at Storyknife
July at Storyknife
It’s mid-July at Storyknife. This means that everything is very very green and the fireweed is fixing to bloom at any moment. It also means that we’re very very busy. First of all, the application period is open for the 2025 residency season. In a separate email, I’ll explain how the adjudication process works whichContinue reading “July at Storyknife”
Live from Storyknife July
Join us on Thursday, July 18 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring July’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading. A Chicanx writer and educator, Dr. Victoria Bañales is the founder and editor of Journal X, a social justiceContinue reading “Live from Storyknife July”
New Publications by Alums!
Jasmine An: “Epithalamion for the Yellow Woman (For Myself),” Michigan Quarterly Review, Issue 62.4, Fall 2023 (online here December 2023). Heather Aruffo: “Adalimumab”, Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol 40 1&2, 2024. Melissa Bennett: “Sema,” Oregon Humanities, January 19, 2024. https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/sema/ Sandra Beasley: “To Catch a Sunset,” The American Scholar, Summer 2024, June 3, 2024. Jan Beatty: “Nothing is a Body,” The Atlantic, MayContinue reading “New Publications by Alums!”
Live from Storyknife June
Join us on Thursday, June 20 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring June’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading. Ashunda is a Black feminist multidisciplinary artist with creative work in film, poetry, archiving and photography. She loves hotContinue reading “Live from Storyknife June”
Live from Storyknife May 2024
Bea Chang was born in Taiwan, raised in California and New Jersey, and has traveled to 80 countries. Her essays have appeared in the The Offing, Redivider, Bodega, among others. She has won the Beacon Street Nonfiction Contest, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and named a Notable Mention in the Best American Essays. Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s novels are TheContinue reading “Live from Storyknife May 2024”
Live from Storyknife April 2024!
. Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle is of Sugpiaq/Iñupiaq/Filipina descent and is a Tribal member of the Native Village of Port Graham. Marleah is a playwright, poet, and writer. Some of her previous involvement includes the Alaska Native Playwright Project, Dark Winter Productions, and the One Minute Play Festival. Grace MacNair – A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist FellowContinue reading “Live from Storyknife April 2024!”
Founder’s Fellowship Challenge
All winter long, I’ve been visiting the cabins at Storyknife, checking everything out, and they’ve been very dark, sleepy almost. But now, the rugs have been shaken out, fresh linens put on the beds, every part scrubbed and shined. The crew is back at Storyknife, preparing for the new season of writers that will beginContinue reading “Founder’s Fellowship Challenge”
Storyknife Writers Retreat Announces New Partnership
Storyknife Writers Retreat, a nonprofit founded in 2016 and located in Homer, Alaska, hosts residencies for women writers from Alaska, across the United States, and internationally. Storyknife’s mission is to give women writers the time and space to explore their craft without distraction, seeking especially to elevate the work of women from historically excluded communities.Continue reading “Storyknife Writers Retreat Announces New Partnership”
Giving to Women’s Organizations
Welcome to the end of February…. Good thing it’s a leap year, because we’re gonna need that extra day to get ready for all of the goodness that’s set to arise from Storyknife this year. I just got back from four days at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference that was held inContinue reading “Giving to Women’s Organizations”
Storyknife Writers Retreat 