This morning I woke up to the aurora borealis in the morning sky. It was a stunning show, green, white, and red curtains billowing over the stars. It made me grateful to live in Alaska and to be able to share this place with so many women writers. And grateful to all of the peopleContinue reading “Thank you!”
Category Archives: If You Build It
Honoring Nancy Nordhoff
Last week, a bright light left the world. Nancy Nordhoff, one of Hedgebrook’s founders and amazing visionary and philanthropist passed away surrounded by her wife Lynn Hays and her family and friends. Storyknife is one of the seeds that Nancy helped to nourish. Her friendship and mentorship of Storyknife’s founder Dana Stabenow is one ofContinue reading “Honoring Nancy Nordhoff”
Welcome in the Light!
The last days of 2025 are here. I’d like to take a moment to thank you for your support in all its many forms this year. Some of you have sent lovely emails, some have shared Storyknife’s social media posts, and some have had the ability to send a donation. Because of your generosity StoryknifeContinue reading “Welcome in the Light!”
Last Week Reminded Me Why Storyknife Exists
This note will break all the rules of the end-of-year fundraising. It’ll be too long and too personal. But as we enter into a season that is centered on gratitude, I find myself wanting to tell you about how that manifests for me and Storyknife. This past week, the person who holds the highest officeContinue reading “Last Week Reminded Me Why Storyknife Exists”
2025 Writers in Residence at Storyknife – Celebration!
Fifty women writers spent two to four weeks at Storyknife this year, and we sure do miss each one of them! They came from as far away as Toronto, Ontario and as close as Haines, Alaska (which is not very close if you drive like Shannon did). 28% wrote fiction, 26% wrote creative non-fiction, 26%Continue reading “2025 Writers in Residence at Storyknife – Celebration!”
Coffee Table on KBBI
Listen to the Coffee Table discussion held on August 20th with members of the Storyknife cohort and Executive Director Erin Hollowell. Alisa Alering is the author of the novel “Smothermoss,” (Tin House, 2024) a Shirley Jackson Award finalist that the New York Times Book Review calls “deliciously weird…a compulsive journey through a wild, unknowable landscape andContinue reading “Coffee Table on KBBI”
The Bitter Winds
February is a changeable month in Homer, Alaska. Some years, very cold and snowy. Other years, mud and freeze/thaw cycle. It’s a hard month to predict. This year, everyone is feeling the raw winds of change. At Storyknife, the winter storms come roaring off Cook Inlet and slam into the little cabins and Eva’s House.Continue reading “The Bitter Winds”
Gratitude for 2024 and hope for 2025!
Here at the end of calendar year 2024, we greet you from a threshold. One season ends, and we look ahead to another beginning. The New Year tradition of making resolutions is an expression of hope. At Storyknife, we prefer value clarification. When the Storyknife Board and solitary staff member (me) got together in 2018Continue reading “Gratitude for 2024 and hope for 2025!”
Welcome to the Advisory Committee
In Alaska, winter is not an easy season. There is snow and ice and darkness. But this is also the season of gratitude. Whenever I get mired in the difficulties of budgeting, facility maintenance, the onslaught of emails, I remember the gifts that are the women writers of Storyknife, our founder Dana Stabenow, the incredibleContinue reading “Welcome to the Advisory Committee”
Evolving the prevailing narrative
Last week I was at the Artist Communities Alliance Evolving Programs Conference. I was also working in the evening to send out all of the 2025 application notifications for Storyknife. (If you applied and didn’t receive an email from me, please just send me a note and we’ll see where your notification went astray.) ItContinue reading “Evolving the prevailing narrative”
Storyknife Writers Retreat 