Book Releases

Changing Paths explores writer Bill Sherwonit’s relationship with Brooks Range, nature

September 28, 2009

Nature writer Bill Sherwonit, one of our pioneering AlaskaWriters members, announces the release of Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, his second literary nonfiction book to be released with University of Alaska Press. Read on for the press release—and be sure to keep an eye on Bill’s website, where he announces upcoming events, including his Oct. 15 book launch (Title Wave, Anchorage, 6 p.m.).

Hint: If after reading his book, you’re inspired to try nature-writing, the author also teaches a 12-week nature-writing classes; next one starts up in January 2010.

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U. Nebraska Press now filling orders for Nancy Lord’s “Rock, Water, Wild”

August 02, 2009

Alaska’s writer laureate Nancy Lord reports that her book “Rock Water Wild” is already available. Though not expected on book shelves until mid-September, publisher University of Nebraska Press is already filling orders, she says.

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Parallel logic: when it sounds right without ever actually touching reality

July 12, 2009

AlaskaWriters member and Anchorage-based columnist Elise Patkotak informs us there is a new edition out of her book Parallel Logic, her personal tale of moving, at 25, from New Jersey to Barrow, Alaska.

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Bill Sherwonit pens book of essays, Living With Wildness: An Alaskan Odyssey

June 01, 2008

AlaskaWriters member Bill Sherwonit announces the release of his book, Living with Wildness: An Alaskan Odyssey.

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