UAS Tidal Echoes 2023 Launch Event, April 7

Doors open at 6:00, launch begins at 6:30. Light refreshments will be served and books will be sold for $5. The event will also be live streamed through the UAS YouTube channel for anyone who would like to watch from home.

Juneau, Alaska

Date of Press Release: April 5, 2023

The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) publication Tidal Echoes 2023 launch event is this Friday, April in the Egan Lecture Hall. Doors open at 6:00, launch begins at 6:30. Light refreshments will be served and books will be sold for $5. The event will also be live streamed through the UAS YouTube channel for anyone who would like to watch from home.

Artist Chloey Klawk Shaa Cavanaugh will talk about her work and writer Lin Davis will read a few poems followed by a Q&A. UAS student Dylan Wood, who won this year's MacBehrend's Prize, will also read his prize-winning poem.

Professor Emily Wall noted, “We are delighted to be back in person for this year’s launch; sitting in a room with so many members of our community has been a real treat in the past. We can’t wait to share the book with everyone!” Wall is the advisor for the publication.

Tidal Echoes submissions come from writers and artists from Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. The journal accepts submissions of prose, including fiction, non-fiction, transcribed oral stories, memoir, drama, and poetry of all types. In addition to writing, artwork of all mediums is accepted digitally, which allows the journal to include sculpture, painting, ceramics, photography and drawing.