In celebration of Alaska Book Week, observed Oct. 3-10, an author event has been scheduled in Juneau on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. at Coppa, 917 Glacier Ave. The event will be hosted by the University of Alaska Southeast’s One Campus One Book program in collaboration with 49 Writers, the Alaska Center for the Book, the Alaska State Library, the Anchorage Public Library, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. Coffee, ice-cream and pastries available for purchase.
“Read Local” will include author readings by Ernestine Hayes (“Blonde Indian”), Carrie Enge (“Crab Bait”), Aleria Jensen (“A Soldier’s Station”, one of the 2015 Poems in Place elections) and Joan Kane (“Cormorant Hunter’s Wife,” “Hyperboreal”), as well as a special announcement by Alaska Writer Laureate Frank Soos of Fairbanks. Kane and Soos will participate via Google Hangouts.
Hayes’ book “Blonde Indian” is the 2015-16 UAS One Campus, One Book selection. As part of the OCOB program, complimentary copies are provided to all Juneau Campus New-Student Orientation attendees. The general public is invited to share in the conversation by reading the book, as well. “Blonde Indian” was the winner of the 2007 American Book Award and a finalist for the PEN Nonfiction Award and Kiriyama Prize. It tells the story of the author’s journey back home after a 25-year absence.
For more information, and a full list of this year’s One Campus One Book events, visit www.uas.alaska.edu/ocob.
For more on Alaska Book Week, visit:
http://juneauempire.com/art/2015-09-30/recent-and-upcoming-alaska-titles
http://juneauempire.com/art/2015-09-30/swallowed-great-land
