Storyknife Writers Retreat announces that Dana Stabenow is transitioning from Board President to take on a leadership role on the Storyknife Endowment Committee. Dana is the founder of Storyknife Writers Retreat, established in 2014 and one of only two women’s writing retreats in the United States. At the end of the 2025 and after fiveContinue reading “With Gratitude: Storyknife Founder Steps Into a New Chapter”
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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!”
Live from Storyknife September 2025
‘Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots, was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Jennifer Dickinson, a graduate of Hollins University, is a book coach and writing teacher for women. Her fiction has appeared in The Florida Review, Isele Magazine, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction hasContinue reading “Live from Storyknife September 2025”
Live from Storyknife August 2025
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 and the wilder hearts of young girls.” A former librarian and science and technology reporter, they grew up in the AppalachianContinue reading “Live from Storyknife August 2025”
Live from Storyknife July 2025
Caprice Gray is a lifelong New Yorker. She has a a Master of Science from Harvard University and an MFA in Writing from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. Her work explores themes of Otherness, alienation, and belonging. She has been longlisted for the 2023 First Pages Prize and 2024 Granum Prize, and hails from traditionalContinue reading “Live from Storyknife July 2025”
Live from Storyknife June 2025
Join us on Thursday, June 19 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring June’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading. Abegunde is a memory keeper, poet, and ancestral priest. While at Storyknife she is drafting a healingContinue reading “Live from Storyknife June 2025”
Live from Storyknife May 2025
Join us on Thursday, May 22 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring May’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading. Bella Bravo is a fiction writer living in Seattle. Their stories have appeared in NY Tyrant andContinue reading “Live from Storyknife May 2025”
Doubly Resolved
At the end of March, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference brought together close to 14,000 writers in Los Angeles. On that first Thursday evening, close to 80 people gathered to listen to Storyknife alums read from their work and I sat in their midst. Yes, the venue was a little louder thanContinue reading “Doubly Resolved”
Preparing for the 2025 Writers!
Over thirty-five years ago when Dana Stabenow was just starting out as a novelist and short story writer, she was awarded a residency at a new residency center just for women writers, Hedgebrook. The experience planted a seed that these many years later has blossomed into Storyknife. Each year, Dana offers a challenge match. ThisContinue reading “Preparing for the 2025 Writers!”
Thank you!
January in Alaska is a time of long, dark mornings which foster reflection. It’s a time to look back in gratitude and forward in hope. Let me take a moment to thank the 296 individuals, businesses, and foundations that supported the women writers of Storyknife last year. (Please take a moment to go toContinue reading “Thank you!”
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