This week, the sandhill cranes have been making their test flights over Storyknife. First, we hear them far in the distance and then great squadrons mass over the water and fly toward the south. Any day now, we’ll see them leave for the winter and an important threshold for the autumn will be crossed. InContinue reading “Welcoming in autumn at Storyknife”
Category Archives: Residencies
Live from Storyknife September
Join us on Thursday, September 19 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring September’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading Arumandhira is a queer Blasian poet, musician, and creative marketer born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia (now survivingContinue reading “Live from Storyknife September”
Live from Storyknife August
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”
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!”
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”
Books Make Great Gifts!
It’s winter at Storyknife, a time for celebrating and snuggling up on the sofa to read a good book. And if you need some last minute gifts, might we suggest any of these amazing titles by Storyknife alums? American Bastard: Jan Beatty’s lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America, traveling acrossContinue reading “Books Make Great Gifts!”
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