The first two weeks of September have been a glorious end to summer here at Storyknife. In fact, it’s been a year stuffed full of goodness. In the beginning of the year, the board of Storyknife and I worked with the Foraker Group as part of the Pre-Development Program. We talked about dreams, goals, aContinue reading “Storyknife Progress”
Category Archives: Residencies
2018 Residency Fellows Announced
Storyknife Writers Retreat received 97 applications for residencies during 2018. The selection committee was incredibly impressed by the quality of the work they received. It was difficult to narrow it down to the three writers who will have a chance to spend time devoted to their writing at Storyknife this year. We are so proudContinue reading “2018 Residency Fellows Announced”
The Storyknife Residency Challenge
This post was written by Ruby Hansen Murray, Storyknife’s September 2017 resident fellow. All photographs taken by Ruby Hansen Murray. A solitary residency can be rough. Going to a new community alone is like throwing yourself into space, something the two eagles across from the post office may have felt, when they fledged on SeptemberContinue reading “The Storyknife Residency Challenge”
Create the Change You Want to See – #WomensVoicesMatter
Dear Friends of Storyknife, We have all come so far in the last year, sometimes in amazing and sometimes in devastating ways. Here at Storyknife, we have raised almost half of what we need to build the physical part of a writers’ retreat for women. But Storyknife is not all about the buildings, not allContinue reading “Create the Change You Want to See – #WomensVoicesMatter”
Some thoughts from our July fellow, Megan Donnelly
It was a friend who first found Storyknife. Only for women, he realized, and forwarded me the link. Repeatedly, he urged me to apply until I relented and submitted an application for a summer residency. There’s no way, I thought. There’s no way that I’ll be selected. One month later, while my first grade studentsContinue reading “Some thoughts from our July fellow, Megan Donnelly”
By Leaps and Bounds
We are delighted to announce that Storyknife Writers Retreat has raised enough funds that with a 2-to-1 matching donation from Peggy Shumaker and Joe Usibelli, the main house can be built and dedicated to Homer writer Eva Saulitis! Starting in November last year, donations were solicited via a crowd-funding campaign to build Eva’s House, theContinue reading “By Leaps and Bounds”
Welcome 2017 Storyknife Fellows
The multi-level decision process to winnow the large number of FABULOUS submissions that we received for the 2017 Storyknife residency season was arduous but necessary. We could have easily awarded 42 residencies; which is the number of residencies we will offer each year when all the cabins and main house are built. Our selection committeeContinue reading “Welcome 2017 Storyknife Fellows”
Spring is coming… March update
February was a busy month for Storyknife. We were parsing out all of the submissions to our wonderful team of reviewers. Each submission was to be read by three people. We also needed to create a grid so we could figure out which applicants wanted a two-week retreat, which wanted a four-week retreat, and whichContinue reading “Spring is coming… March update”
Rise Up!
We are excited and honored to report that three of Storyknife’s six cabins have been named by the following generous donors: Arliss Sturgulewski, who will be naming her cabin for her daughter-in-law, Carol. Jeannie Penney, who will be naming her cabin for her mother, Betty Rice. Cathy Rasmuson, who will be naming her cabin forContinue reading “Rise Up!”
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”
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