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”
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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!”
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”
A special message from Storyknife’s Founder Dana Stabenow
Here’s to 2024, a new year of wonderful writers having the time and space to make the world better with their words! Thank you to all of our supporters, our wonderful community of alums, our board, and the staff of Storyknife!
August means that autumn is coming…
The fireweed says that summer is drawing to a close at Storyknife. There are two and a half weeks left to apply for residency at Storyknife. Do you need two or four weeks to devote to your writing? Got a manuscript that needs polishing? A novel idea that you just can’t get your head around?Continue reading “August means that autumn is coming…”
Giving Tuesday? Giving every day.
November 30th is Giving Tuesday, but here at Storyknife we feel gratitude year-round. We are grateful to the people who have already donated toward our $25,000 challenge grant. We’re heading in the right direction and with your help, we’ll make it over the threshold. Can you include Storyknife in your year-end giving? Your donation isContinue reading “Giving Tuesday? Giving every day.”
Waiting and Dreaming
If you’ve been reading this website for more than few months, you’ll have watched as Storyknife sprung from the dirt. In fact we’re a little more than two weeks away from May 4th, the one-year anniversary of the groundbreaking at Storyknife. In one year, what was a dream and a set of building plans hasContinue reading “Waiting and Dreaming”
Happy Valentine’s Day
Let me tell you about a kind of love that the media and culture just don’t talk about very often. It’s the kind of love that one gives themselves when they put away cultural expectations in order to pick up the gift inside. When I tell women that I work for a women writers’ retreat, soContinue reading “Happy Valentine’s Day”
Storyknife Writers Retreat 