Dear Storyknife Community, As the year closes out and the daylight starts to increase, it gives those of us behind the scenes at Storyknife great pleasure to look back joyfully and look forward joyfully. We are so grateful to the 48 amazing women writers who were in residence at Storyknife in 2022. Our lives haveContinue reading “Looking forward joyfully. Looking behind joyfully.”
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Summer comes to Storyknife
It is high summer at Storyknife. We’ve hosted three cohorts of women writers, offering the time and space to devote to their writing. That means twenty-one women have slept deeply, watched sunsets, gathered together for dinner conversations and walks, and spent numerous hours putting words on the pages. It also means that there are fourContinue reading “Summer comes to Storyknife”
A Valentine’s Day Surprise!
It’s February at Storyknife and that means snow. Yep, 3 to 5 inches of snow in the forecast today. In fact, we’ve been pretty much snowed in since October 28th when the last bunch of 2021 residents left. It’s almost as if Mother Nature closed the doors and tucked in a fluffy, cold blanket aroundContinue reading “A Valentine’s Day Surprise!”
Share Your Story
Here we are, almost half-way through October. At Storyknife, that means first frost and lots of curious moose. 2020 hasn’t been the year any of us thought it would be. I thought that I’d be telling you of about all of the amazing writers who have been sitting at the desk in the Peggy CabinContinue reading “Share Your Story”
The End of Summer
There’s a new movie adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women coming out in December. (I’ll wait here if you want to go watch the trailer.) Little Women is one of the first books that I read that was written by a woman about women and girls. I loved the book. I took it outContinue reading “The End of Summer”
Eva’s House
Last year Peggy Shumaker and Joe Usibelli came to us and said they wanted to name Storyknife’s main house for Eva Saulitis, teacher, poet and their friend, who died earlier that year. For every dollar donated toward the main house they would match it with two of theirs. This month we received a donation fromContinue reading “Eva’s House”
More writers at Storyknife in 2017
In 2016 Storyknife hosted its inaugural Fellow, Kim Steutermann Rogers, for the month of September. Kim arrived on September 1st and departed on September 30th. While she was here she wrote 249 pages, which was better than I did that month. She integrated so fully into the Homer community that total strangers came up toContinue reading “More writers at Storyknife in 2017”
Introducing a new member of the Storyknife team!
Everyone, meet Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Storyknife’s new executive director! Poet by day, non-profit maven the rest of the time, she’s come on board to help get this party started. But first, get to know her a little. I’m a poet all the way out at the end of the road that has been working on andContinue reading “Introducing a new member of the Storyknife team!”
Storyknife at Anchorage Rotary
[My remarks at Anchorage Rotary yesterday, as follows, and my thanks to Jon Deisher for making it happen.] I have to start with a story, because you know that’s what I do. A guy walks into a bookstore, the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, Arizona. He tells the owner, Barbara Peters, that he left his bookContinue reading “Storyknife at Anchorage Rotary”
Happy 2014!
So, not a lot of activity to report. Chiefly, we have yet to receive word from the IRS about our 501c3 status, and we can’t begin serious fund-raising until we have it. To recap, we applied last February. In April they asked us for an additional document, which we provided, which they tookContinue reading “Happy 2014!”
Storyknife Writers Retreat 