You can see it all! Next week will be an exciting week for Anchorage's literary community. Don't miss anything.

You can see Ernestine Hayes at Tidal Wave on Thursday and then catch this slam dunk AQR reading on Friday.

November 3rd: The Alaska Quarterly Review First Friday reading at 7 PM at Bernie's Bungalow (626 D Street) features poet and writer Susie Silook, novelist, Sarah Jane Birdsall and our own lovely Signe Jorgenson.

Celebrating Alaska Native Heritage Month, Susie Silook, winner of an Alaska State Governor's Award for the Arts, will read from her new collection of poetry. A sculptor and writer originally from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Silook's writing has been published in a number of venues including From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, Nimrod, Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry and Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers and Orators: The Expanded Edition published by Alaska Quarterly Review. Her sculpture is featured in The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, The Alaska Shop on Madison in New York City, and in many private and corporate collections in Alaska, New York, and San Francisco.

This reading will also showcase the fiction of Sarah Birdsall. An award-winning Alaska print and public radio journalist, Sarah currently lives in Talkeetna, Alaska, where she works as the News Editor for Talkeetna Good Times. One of Sarah's short stories, "An Accident in the Woods" was published in Alaska Quarterly Review. Sarah will be reading from her new novel THE RED MITTEN (McRoy and Blackburn Publishers) that Susan Deer Cloud called "An unsettling love story that hooks into America's wounding complexity... Beautifully done in terms of 'spirit of place' and characters of that place--a haunting loon call of a novel that one still hears long after the reading of it."

Now in its 24th year of publication, Alaska Quarterly Review has been deemed one of the nation's best literary magazines? (Washington Post Book World).

The Alaska Quarterly Review First Friday Readings bring together vital, creative voices at work in the Anchorage area and around Alaska.

For more information call 786-4361 or email <aqr@uaa.alaska.edu>.