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Most popular articles ring in the New Year!

By seashorewrite on December 31, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

The WordPress.com 2013 annual report for this blog showed that over 5,000 readers visited Peaks Island Press this year. These are the posts that got the most views in 2013. 1 Eleanor […]

Sea-soaked and salty: a literary message in the bottle

By seashorewrite on November 21, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Every year, the changing island weather prompts me to write, like a patient writing instructor prodding its lazy student. To get my attention, the island lobs cranberry-orange sunsets at me and tempts […]

Making Sense of Madness: Julie Fisher Talks about Democracy

By seashorewrite on November 18, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

From riots and imprisoned journalists to dictators and free elections, Julie Fisher’s scope manages to make sense of what at first appears to be sheer madness globally – a march toward democracy. […]

“Darkness First”: James Hayman takes us into the long nights with a good read

By seashorewrite on November 17, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

All across the island, residents are chopping and splitting wood or carrying it inside to stoke their stove again the November chill. And with crime fiction author James Hayman living among us, […]

Homemaking, Snowbabies, and the Search for the North Pole: Josephine Diebitsch Peary and the Making of National History

By seashorewrite on November 3, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

After crossing Casco Bay by ferry, packages are delivered to islanders by the taxi driver. This week, I found a package on my doorstep and hurried it inside, just as a rainstorm […]

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two: Cat Valente

By seashorewrite on November 3, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Peaks Island author Catherynne Valente has just published “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two,” her third in a five-part YA fantasy series that has placed her […]

Come for Stone Boat’s last summer cruise through poetry

By seashorewrite on September 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s September 1st and islanders are starting to find each other again as the throngs of tourists begin to thin. Recovering the ability to greet folks on the ferry whose name you […]

“Stone Boat” poetry event sails into late summer on Peaks Island with Betsy Sholl

By seashorewrite on August 6, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Guest post by event organizer Jesse Mantsch (jmantsch@maine.rr.com) Valued poetry aficionados & devotees: Stone Boat Poetry Reading on Peaks Island. August 7, 2013 at 6 PM Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial and Lodge […]

Annie O’Brien’s “A Path of Stars” at “I’m Your Neighbor” event

By seashorewrite on August 6, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Guest post by Annie O’Brien (asob45@aol.com) A Path of Stars – A Celebration of Cambodians in Maine Thursday, August 8 – 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon – Portland Public Library I’ll be sharing my […]

Scott Nash takes Blue Jay the Pirate to South China, Maine

By seashorewrite on July 23, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Scott Nash is preparing for the next book event with his usual genius. Nash’s rendition of a Blue Willow transferware plate – with his protagonist of The High Skies Adventures of Blue […]

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