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The mission of Alaska Writers Guild is to educate, support, and inspire writers in their creative process. Check out more at www.alaskawritersguild.com

Alaska Writers Guild is an organization supporting published and unpublished writers in Alaska. If you have written, are writing, or are thinking of writing, you want to be a part of this dynamic group, which meets monthly for fun, fellowship, and programs of interest to writers at all skill levels. Alaska Writers Guild is designed to educate and inform beginning, intermediate and published writers. Members gain information and skills in which they may form a plan of action and a system of working with editors, agents, public relations people, printers, publishers, bookstores, and marketing people. And frequently, by listening to authors who have done it. The people in the writing industry offer valuable information and contacts in the monthly meetings and workshops.

10/03/2026

Shout out to one of our board members!

09/20/2026

Another great conference is in the BOOKS. Thank you to everyone who attended the 2026 Alaska Conference for Writers and Illustrators. This year offered two days of intensives, workshops, panels, critiques, and tips. Thank you to all who attended, especially this year’s traveling faculty—Maggie Cooper, Jenny Xu, Sean McCarthy, Angela Ackerman, and Erik Metz.

Please keep writing and working on cultivating your writing community!

And finally, more to come on the merger of Alaska Writers Guild and 49 Writers—soon to be known as AK Writers.

09/15/2026

🎉Welcome all Writers & Illustrators to a kick-off party for the 2026 Conference!

Are you an author or illustrator that registered for the 2026 Conference for Writers and Illustrators? Or maybe can't attend but have an interest in mingling with fellow writers and illustrators? Join us at Wild Scoops Ice Cream for a delicious treat! Ice Cream will be served while supplies last.

When: Friday, September 18 | 6pm
Where: Wild Scoops Ice Cream | 530 E Benson Blvd, Anchorage

See you there!

09/11/2026

It's almost time for the 2026 conference!! Together with the Alaska Writers Guild, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Alaska, and the Alaska Romance Writers, register for the Friday Afternoon Workshops | 3pm - 5pm:

✅The Art of the Query with creative manager Maggie Cooper
✅When Reality Bites: Best Practices for Revising Your Work with literary agent Sean McCarthy
✅Hidden Emotion & Subtext: Making Dialogue Crackle with What Isn't Said with story coach Angela Ackerman

Already registered but want to add a Friday Workshop to your existing registration? Email us at [email protected]

09/10/2026

It's almost time for the 2026 conference!! Together with the Alaska Writers Guild, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Alaska, and the Alaska Romance Writers, register for the Friday Morning Workshops | 10am - 12pm:

✅Self-Publishing Success: What Worked, What Didn't, What I'd Do Differently with author Erik Mertz
✅How to Find Structure for Your Book with senior editor Jenny Xu
✅Beyond the Bedroom: Using Physical and Emotional Intimacy to Create Authentic Character Relationships with author Dawn Alexander

Already registered but want to add a Friday Workshop to your existing registration? Email us at [email protected]

09/06/2026

🖋️Meet author and keynote speaker ERIK MERTZ!

Erick Mertz is an author, ghostwriter, screenwriter, and developmental editor who has helped clients transform life stories into compelling memoirs, novels, and screenplays. Through Erick Mertz Writing, he has collaborated on dozens of book projects while also publishing his own fiction, including mysteries, thrillers, and speculative horror. Whether working with first-time authors or seasoned professionals, his passion is helping writers uncover the stories only they can tell—and tell them well.

09/05/2026

🖋️Meet author ANGELA ACKERMAN!

Angela Ackerman is a story coach, international speaker, and co-author of the bestselling book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, and its many sequels. Available in ten languages, her guides are sourced by universities, recommended by agents and editors, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, and psychologists around the world. To date, this series has sold over 1.4 million copies.

Angela is also the co-founder of the popular site Writers Helping Writers®, as well as One Stop for Writers®, a portal to game-changing tools and resources that enable writers to craft powerful fiction.

09/04/2026

🖋️Meet Literary Agent JENNY XU!

Jenny Xu is a Senior Editor at Atria Books. She began her career at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and was most recently an Editor at Harper and Ecco. Jenny acquires a broad range of literary and commercial nonfiction, fiction, and the occasional poetry collection, with a particular focus on illuminating more overlooked aspects of history and culture, and work that balances the personal with broader narratives. Her authors include Tiana Clark, Adrienne Maree Brown, Saeed Jones, Amanda Montell, Maggie Smith, and Pria Anand.

09/03/2026

🖋️Meet Literary Agent SEAN MCCARTHY!

Sean McCarthy founded his own full-service literary agency in 2013 after working at Overlook Press and Sheldon Fogelman Agency and represents authors and illustrators across all age ranges in children’s publishing. His clients include Hyewon Yum, Dana Wulfekotte, Heather Ayris Burnell, Ariel Bernstein, Margaret Chiu Greanias, Gina Perry, and Junghwa Park, among others. Sean graduated from Macalester College with a degree in English-Creative Writing and is grateful that he no longer has to spend his winters in Minnesota. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two pet rabbits (who aren’t much help when it comes to reading manuscripts, though they are excellent at shredding them).

09/02/2026

🖋️Meet Literary Agent MAGGIE COOPER!

Maggie Cooper is an agent with Aevitas Creative Management, representing adult fiction and select nonfiction projects with an emphasis on q***r and trans stories and books that make our world kinder, weirder, more joyful, or all of the above. She holds a degree in English from Yale University, attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, and earned her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as an editor for The Greensboro Review. Maggie is also a writer; her prose chapbook, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies, was published by Bull City Press in 2024.

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PO Box 670014
Chugiak, AK
99567

Website

http://alaskawritersguild.com/

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