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Nancy Owens Barnes
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As the author of South to Alaska, a travel memoir about my father who constructs a 47-foot boat in our backyard and cruises it from Arkansas to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal, I took my first writing class solely with the intention of writing my father’s story. That first class led to four years of writing classes and independent study, culminating in a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Vermont College of Norwich University where I studied creative writing.
I not only watched my father’s dream weave its way through the lives of my family, but I also boarded the Red Dog for the first leg of its journey along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. I moved to Alaska the year following my parents’ arrival there in 1973, where I lived for 25 years before relocating to northern Idaho in 1999.
In addition to the publication of South to Alaska by New Leaf Books, I have had poetry and nonfiction published in We Alaskans, Decision Magazine, and in literary journals such as The Ledge, The MacGuffin, Snowy Egret, and The Lyric. A German magazine, Entscheidung, reprinted the Decision Magazine article.
I am the 2008 First Vice-President of the Coeur d’Alene chapter of the Idaho Writers League, and a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.
Birth Place: Muskogee, OK USA
Accomplishments: Nominee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2008 Book Award.
First place at the Idaho Writers’ League 2007 Conference in the Creative Nonfiction open title contest.
Finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's 2003 Literary Contest, Nonfiction Book category.
Nancy Interview.mp3 Twenty-minute author interview with Earl Finkler of KBRW AM & FM, Barrow "Top of the World" Alaska, December 3, 2007.
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South to Alaska:
From the Heartland of America, to the Heart of a Dream.
Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, ten-year-old Melvin dreams of living in Alaska. More than forty years later he constructs a 47-foot boat in his backyard and begins a 10,000-mile watery journey from Arkansas to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal....
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Short Stories
Tomorrow's Thunder by Nancy Owens Barnes
Tomorrow''s Thunder: Seven Days in the Sierras...
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Poetry
Wild Oats by Nancy Owens Barnes
Tadpoles by Nancy Owens Barnes
Moose for Breakfast by Nancy Owens Barnes
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Articles
Got Writing Struggles? You're Not Alone! by Nancy Owens Barnes
A Bit of Inspiration: Learning From Others...
On Our Own by Nancy Owens Barnes
A Writer''s Education...Free for the Taking!...
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News
South to Alaska by Nancy Owens Barnes
South to Alaska chosen for Online Book Club...
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Events
Slide Presentation/Reading/Signing - South to Alaska 1/29/2008
As part of the Seattle Boat Show, Nancy Owens Barnes will be giving a slide presentation/reading/signing outlining her book, South to Alaska....
Book Signing - South to Alaska 1/29/2008
As part of the Seattle Boat Show, Nancy Owens Barnes will be signing her book, South to Alaska, at Armchair Sailor Bookstore....
Slide Presentation/Reading/Signing - South to Alaska 1/27/2008
Nancy Owens Barnes will give a slide presentation/reading/signing outlining her book, South to Alaska....
Radio Interview - South to Alaska 12/15/2007
Author Nancy Owens Barnes will be interviewed on APRN (Alaska Public Radio Network) by host Rebecca Sheir, discussing Barnes' book, South to Alaska....
Book Signing - South to Alaska 12/14/2007
At this multi-author event, Nancy Owens Barnes will be signing her book, South to Alaska, as part of the Christmas Open House for the Bonner County Historical Museum in Sandpoint, Idaho....
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