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Upcoming Events
Join the Weekly Writing Group!Mon, Mar 10ZoomRESTARTS Wednesday Oct. 1! Join Tongass Mist's Ruth Underhill weekly. One RSVP = same link ea. week! 5PM-6PM Alaska Standard Time to for generative writing prompts, write for about 40 minutes together and then spend the last few minutes to share any realizations about your writing process. Welcome!- Thu, Jan 08zoomWrite with Tongass Mist's Ruth Underhill for 8 weeks this winter. Thursday January 8th through February 26th. Share our journeys. Write with prompts and starting points. Encouragement all along the way!
10 days to the eventWed, Feb 04ZoomLearn with Professor Deanne Battle about ways to enrich your potential or current teaching career, make space for all your students and find joy in the journey.
13 days to the eventSat, Feb 07ZoomOn Zoom. Explore Point of View or "POV" as we say in writing craft discussions. Learn how to use POV to make your writing even more engaging and powerful. Engage in conversations and writing prompts. It's the perfect winter weekend class!
14 days to the eventSun, Feb 08ZoomEmbrace the Journey with Kristin Knight Pace, a 2-hour conversation about the process of revision and editing toward a publishable piece of writing. Most of us don’t get it right on the first try! Learn from one of Alaska's favorite published authors about her firsthand experiences with revision.
23 days to the eventTue, Feb 17ZoomLet's talk about flash fiction and create short, powerful pieces with the help of prompts, including 6 word memoirs, containers, your Google searches, and more!- 38 days to the eventWed, Mar 04ZoomThis is a creative writing and professional development workshop for those curious about teaching creative writing, working in universities and finding the skills and opportunities needed to find your perfect teaching gig or role.
- 46 days to the eventThu, Mar 12ZoomOn Zoom. Writers engage with stories and voices in which they find relatable truths. How can we peel back our needed armor to show our true voice and stories to readers? What is the difference between vulnerability and journal writing? This class is powerful, engaging and encouraging!
53 days to the eventThu, Mar 19ZoomYour reader responds to interesting detail and relatable words. Join us for this two hour writing conversation about how we choose words, imagery and meaning which connects to the reader with such intensity that they engage with your writing. They laugh, their pupils dilate, goosebumps raise etc!
60 days to the eventThu, Mar 26zoomJoin us December 11th for a conversation about the lyricism and musicality in Spoken Poetry. Of course, also jazz. Enjoy Generative Writing Prompts.- 76 days to the eventSat, Apr 11ZoomOn Zoom. Write your own obituary. Take time in a supportive creative writing group to craft a brief snapshot of what it means to be you. Celebrate your life!
97 days to the eventSat, May 02SitkaBeloved writer, comic, and teacher John Roedel is our headlining guest at this writers retreat. All are welcome to write. Do you enjoy journaling, writing poetry, publishing in your local newspaper, publishing in literary journals, only publishing for the top five publishers, self publishing? Join!- 114 days to the eventTue, May 19ZoomOn Zoom. Write your story and the story of your family for two hours with Molly Barari, teacher and owner at Heirlooms Creative Writing
163 days to the eventTue, Jul 07Tenakee SpringsWrite in Tenakee with Ruth Underhill, Tongass Mist Writing's founder. Spend your days in family-style communal meals, walks along the one path of our car-free community, hot spring baths and of course lots and lots of writing and conversations about writing here on Chigacoff Island in the Tongass!
228 days to the eventThu, Sep 10JuneauJoin Kristin Knight Pace for three days in beautiful Juneau, Alaska September 2026 at the Shrine of St. Therese. All- Inclusive or Local attendance options available. Write with us!
Date and time is TBDTenakee SpringsTongass Mist Writing is doing business as Tongass Mist Pies this summer in Tenakee Springs, Alaska! Visit us at the Tenakee Springs Bakery for homemade pies and other good food and company. Register here to be added to our mailing list and get updates about our local and online creative writing!
Date and time is TBDZoom or PhoneThis is an invitation for retreat attendees. Chat with Tongass Mist Writing's Ruth Underhill about the Sitka Writers Retreat itinerary, packing list, special considerations, travel plans to and from Sitka and make sure you are comfortably prepared for your writing adventure with us this May!
Sun, Jan 25ZoomLiving in Southeast Alaska means living on Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian land which is also the Tongass temperate rainforest; a wild and vibrant place those of us who are lucky enough to to live here love. Join Ruth and write this wild awe!
Molly Barari Ed. D, M.F.A., Rapid City, SD
As a writer and writing instructor, I have attended numerous online workshops to practice my craft. The workshops I've taken with Tongass Mist are the best of the best - with quality content, insightful discussions, and ample time for writing and reflection. I appreciate that a variety of genres are covered, from memoir to fiction to poetry, and the workshops offer unique takes on these genres. The Tongass Mist writing workshops are the workshops I most prefer to take, and they are the ones I recommend to my students.
Recent Classes and Events
Tenakee Writers Retreat
August 9-14, 2025
with Heather Lende
Write in Tenakee Springs Alaska with the 2020=-2024 Alaska Writer Laureate and much loved author of 'If You Lived Here I'd Know You Name', 'Take Good Care Of The Garden And The Dogs',
You will have an all-inclusive experience in this remote island town with under 200 residents. Tenakee Springs is located in the heart of the Tongass National Rainforest, along Alaska's pristine Inside Passage and off the normal cruise ship routes. This is a perfect location for creative writing, community retreat experiences and refreshment in the wilderness.
Travel from Juneau, Alaska to Tenakee Springs, Alaska by float plane or state ferry!
Limited to 12 Writers.
We offer a 20% discount for members of 49 Writers.
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