Each semester, Alaska Quarterly Review co-sponsors readings and workshops that have included outstanding writers and poets such as Alan Lightman, Amy Bloom, Jane Hirshfield, N. Scott Momaday, Sherman Alexie, Francine Prose, Tracy Kidder, Richard Ford, Jane Smiley, Michael Ondaatje, Tobias Wolff, Bret Lott, Patricia Hampl, Stuart Dybek, Rosellen Brown, William Gass, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Snyder, John Haines, Alice Fulton, David Wagoner, Robin Becker, Joy Harjo, Roland Flint, William Kittridge, Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Hedin, Jim Heynen, Al Young, Valerie Miner, Gerald Vizenor, Nora Dauenhauer, Gary Holthaus, Peggy Shumaker, Bill Holm, John Straley, Richard Chiappone, Marybeth Holloman, Sherry Simpson, Nancy Lord, Richard Nelson, Mary Robison, Toi Derricotte, Alberto Rios, Olena Davis, Jerah Chadwick, Seth Kantner, Sarah Birdsall, Susie Silook, and Ron Carlson.

AQR also sponsors a monthly FIRST FRIDAYS SERIES bringing together vital, creative voices in the visual, performing, and literary arts.  Events feature local and visiting artists.

Spatz & Lightman
AQR Editor Ronald Spatz with Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman, the author of Einstein’s Dreams
and a host of books of fiction and nonfiction.

Amy Bloom                   N. Scott Momaday                 Sherman Alexie
Amy Bloom                            N. Scott Momaday              Sherman Alexie
Novelist and Short                    Pulitzer Prize winning             Writer, poet, and
Story Writer                             fiction writer, poet                 filmmaker
and essayist

Francine Prose                    Tracy Kidder                Jane Hirshfield
Francine Prose                      Tracy Kidder                      Jane Hirshfield
Novelist, short story                  Pulitzer Prize winning            Poet and Essayist
writer, and essayist                   nonfiction writer and
contributing editor,  
The Atlantic Monthly

Richard Ford                   Michael Ondaatje   
Richard Ford                         Michael Ondaatje
Pulitzer Prize winning               Novelist, poet, essayist,  
fiction writer and essayist         and filmmaker   

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