2018 Alaska Book Week Events Schedule (preliminary as of October 1)
Date/Time Location Event
Monday, October 1, SPARC, 425 D Street, Anchorage SPARC: a creative space, is hosting a Bookmark 5:00 pm, Bookmark Contest Contest in conjunction with Alaska Book Week. Deadline. Rules and entry form at https://indd.adobe.com/ Friday, October 5, view/f3ed8cc5-1249-424e-a059-9ab3c2db1e9d 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Friday, October 5 Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Linda Shandelmeier book signing for her new 6:00 - 7:00 pm book, Coming Out of Nowhere, Alaska Homestead Poems.
Friday, October 5, Fr. Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building, Author Brad Stevens presents The Ship, the 6:30 - 8:30 pm Juneau Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak.
Friday, October 5, Fr. Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building, The Alaska State Library will display books in the to Sunday, October 14 Juneau collection by Alaska Native Authors, along with a bibliography, for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In French group on 10/12, they will view and discuss a selection of French books on Alaska from the collection.
Saturday, October 6, Fr. Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building, Cartooning with Gabrielle Vance. Local arts 10:00 am - noon, (ages 6-9); Juneau educator and scientist Gabrielle Vance leads a 1:00 - 3:00 pm (ages 9 - 12) cartoon activity inspired by historic comics from the Alaska State Library Historical Collections. Call the Alaska State Museum at 465-2901 to register and visit lam.alaska.gov/youthart for more information.
Saturday, October 6 The Writer’s Block, Anchorage “Here and Over There: An Evening of Readings 7:00 pm and Discussion with Alaskan Poets and the AQR,” featuring Chaun and Tara Ballard and Joan Naviyuk Kane
Saturday, October 6 Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Fairbanks Arts Literary Reading Series with Linda 7:00 pm Shandelmeier featuring her recently published book Coming Out of Nowhere, Alaska Homestead Poems.
Sunday, October 7 Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Melissa Leann Larson, illustrator, signs Iver & 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Ellsworth
Sunday, October 7, 11:30 am - Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Ann Dixon signs her children’s books, Blueberry 2:30 pm Shoe, Big-Enough Anna and The Sleeping Lady
Sunday, October 7, 1:00 - Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Tricia Brown signs her children’s books, Bobbie 4:00 pm the Wonder Dog, Alaskan Night Before Christmas, Musher’s Night Before Christmas, The Itchy Little Musk Ox, and Charlie and the Blanket Toss
Sunday, October 7, 4:00 pm The Writer’s Block, Anchorage “Bad Girls of the North: Creating Alaskan Anti- heroes,” a panel with Jamey Bradbury, author of The Wild Inside, and Sharon Emmerichs, UAA Assistant Professor of English. Date/Time Location Event
Monday, October 8, 5:00 - Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Barbara Jacko Atwater and Ethan Jacko 8:00 pm Atwater sign How Raven Got His Crooked Nose
Phyllis Adams signs her children’s book, Alaska Boots for Chelsea.
Jon Van Zyle, illustrator, signs his books, A King Salmon Journey, A Woolly Mammoth Journey, Ollie’s First Year, Raven and River, Jon Van Zyle’s Iditarod Memories: 40 Years of Iditarod Art, Jon Van Zyle: My Colorful Life of Art and Adventure
Monday, October 8, 4:00 - The UAA Bookstore, Anchorage Poet Chaun Ballard reads from his book, Flight, 6:00 pm, The UAA Bookstore, Poetry and Our Times Anchorage
Monday, October 8, 6:30 - BP Energy Center, Anchorage Kim Rich, author of Johnny’s Girl and A Normal 8:00 pm Life, reads and discusses her fascinating life experiences and writing challenges.
Tuesday, October 9, The Writer’s Block, Anchorage Kim Rich reads and signs her new memoir, A 12:00 - 1:00 pm Normal Life.
Tuesday, October 9, 5:00 - Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Kim Rich signs her memoirs, Johnny’s Girl and A 8:00 pm Normal Life.
Stan Jones signs his books from the Nathan Active mystery series, Frozen Sun, Tundra Kill, Village of the Ghost Bears, Shaman Pass and White Sky, Black Ice
Cinthia Ritchie signs her comic novel, Dolls Behaving Badly
Tuesday, October 9, 4:00 - The UAA Bookstore, Anchorage Carla Williams presents Wildcat Women: 6:00 pm Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska’s Oil and Gas Industry
Wednesday, October 10 5:00 Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Jamey Bradbury signs The Wild Inside - 8:00 pm Don Rearden signs his books Never Quit and The Raven’s Gift
Leland Hale signs his books What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder and Butcher, Baker: the True Account of an Alaska Serial Killer
Wednesday, October 10 The Writer’s Block, Anchorage BETWEEN THE COVERS: A Conversation about 6:30 pm Trends and Challenges in Today's World of Book Publishing.
Printing: Gerhard Aichelberger, Friesens Publishing/Editing: Laurie Evans-Dineen, Epicenter Press Publishing/Graphic Design: Vered Mares, VP&D Publishing Writing/Editing/Independent Publishing: Tricia Brown Moderator: Sara Juday, Alaska Center for the Book, and former long-time representative for Alaska Northwest Books Date/Time Location Event
Wednesday, October 10, ZJ Loussac Library, Ann Stevens Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, author of Steam 7:00 pm Room, Anchorage Laundry, is the Friends of the Library guest speaker at their annual meeting. Presentation will be followed by a book signing
Thursday, October 11, The UAA Bookstore, Anchorage Poet John Haines in Chinese. Sponsored with the 12 - 2:00 pm UAA Confucius Institute
Thursday, October 11, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Adrienne Lindholm signs her new memoir, It 5:00 - 8:00 pm Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
Jackie Ivie signs her fantasy, Laird of Ballanclaire
Jan Harper Haines signs her family memoir, Cold River Spirits
Thursday, October 11, ZJ Loussac Library, Ann Stevens Carla Williams presents her new book, Wildcat 5:30 - 8:00 pm Room, Anchorage Women: Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska’s Oil and Gas Industry
Thursday, October 11, Homer Library, Fireside Lounge, Anchor Point authors Mary Perry and Bill 6:30 pm Homer Richardson, Ninilchik author Mike Chihuly, and Homer authors George Harbeson, Marianne Schlegelmich, and Doug Dodd will read excerpts from their books and discuss their lives as writers
Friday, October 12, Alaska Native Tribal Health Campus, The Alaska Native Book Fair will showcase about 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Consortium Office Building, Atrium, 10 Alaska Native authors signing and selling Anchorage books. Two talks are planned during the event. See www.alaskanativemedia.org for more details.
Friday, October 12, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Jean Aspen signs her family memoirs, Trusting 5:00 - 8:00 pm the River, Arctic Daughter and Arctic Son
David Ramseur signs his political history, Melting the Ice Curtain
Friday, October 12, UAA Gorsuch Commons, 3600 A special reception and celebration of Alaska 6:30 - 8:30 pm Sharon Gagnon Lane books and writers featuring Alaska State Writer Laureate Ernestine Hayes who will give a presentation and recognize winners of all ages from the Annual Statewide Creative Writing Contest followed by a reception with light refreshments.
Friday, October 12, Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai A reading with David Stevenson, UAA creative 6:30 pm Peninsula College, Homer writing professor and Director of MFA program and author of Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing and Letters from Chamonix
Saturday, October 13, Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Writing the Inscrutable, a workshop with David 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Peninsula College, Homer Stevenson, UAA creative writing professor and Director of MFA program. Register online at https:// kbcnoncredit.asapconnected.com
Saturday, October 13, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Lucas Elliot, illustrator for Moose, a graphic novel, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm signs books
Saturday, October 13, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Dan Walker signs his coming-of-age novel, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Secondhand Summer
Saturday, October 13, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage C.M. McCoy signs her paranormal YA novel, Eerie 1:00 - 4:00 pm Date/Time Location Event
Saturday, October 13, Barnes & Noble, Anchorage Debby Dahl Edwardson signs her picture books, 2:00 - 5:00 pm My Name is Not Easy and Whale Snow