Feb. 2, 2017–Jan Carolyn Hardy–What I wish I’d known about old age, but was too young and oblivious to ask.
Jan Carolyn Hardy is an active advocator in Alaska for elders and minority groups. As a community activist, she serves on the board for OPAG (Older Persons Action Group) and contributes to the Senior Voice newspaper. She is an executive board member and secretary for AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO), […]
Jan. 5, 2017–Martha Amore–Creating Anthologies and Community Writing
Martha Amore teaches in the English Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She achieved her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2009 and has published stories in a number of journals and magazines, including Room, Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal. In 2013, VP&D House published her novella in the […]
Dec. 1, 2016–Lizzie Newell (freelance writer, illustrator, and self-publisher): Book design for Self-Publishing
Lizzie Newell is a self-published author who writes and designs science fiction novels. Her books Sappho’s Agency, and The Fisherman and the Sperm Thief are available online and through bookstores. The next book in the series, The Tristan Bay Accord, will go live in February 2017. She studied graphic design and literature at Colorado State […]
Nov. 2, 2016–Barbara Martin–My Journey to Self-Publishing My Powerful Hearts Book Set for Children: Junk or Joy? and Offense Get Off My Fence
Book Summaries Offense, Get Off My Fence, is about learning to guard your heart from the outside and its partner book, Junk or Joy?, is about learning to feed your heart from the inside. Even though they are very different books, they were birthed together and are intended to show children the choices they have, […]
Oct. 6, 2016–Terry Kelly–Trust in Journalism: Why So Low? What Can be Done About It?
Recent polling indicates that trust in mainstream journalism has reached an all-time low. This talk explores: (1) the nature of trust, especially the anonymous trust needed for the public to trust professionals with whom they have no personal acquaintance; (2) some of the potential explanations for the decline in trust in journalists, with particular focus […]