Shannon Huffman Polson presents as a featured author at the Seattle University's Search for Meaning Book Festival March 9, 2013. Join her hour long session in which she discusses the genre of memoir, the writing journey and how both shaped a faith journey as well.
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Jun.04.2013 - 9:29 am
A few thoughts after sending North of Hope into the world:
Memoir is a subcategory of non-fiction, even if creative non-fiction or literary non-fiction. Memoir tells a true story...
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Mar.27.2013 - 11:31 am
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey came to be published in an unexpected way, which I write about in a blog post at the Quivering Pen (see link).
A phrase frequently...
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Mar.05.2013 - 10:27 pm
In the next week and a half we will go to as many as three funerals, one of which is for a person I have thought of as a friend and mentor and who succumbed quietly to cancer,...
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Dec.14.2012 - 10:36 pm
This Christmas there is at least one book I will read with my family, a tradition begun by my mom: Van Dyke's The Other Wise Man, a story beautifully capturing the...
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Published Reviews
Feb.14.2013
Published by Publisher's Weekly
In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares brutally honest...
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Shannon Huffman Polson has written a soulful and brave book about death, life, and the complexities surrounding both. There is nothing sentimental in these pages. "North of Hope" shows us how personal loss and loss of our planet come from the same place: Love. This is a testament to deep change, human and wild.”
—Terry Tempest Williams
About Shannon
Polson lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Her first book, a memoir entitled North of Hope, is due out in Spring 2013 (Zondervan/Harper Collins). She is anthologized in Be There Now: Travel Stories From Around the World and More Than 85Broads, and her...
Causes Shannon Polson Supports
The Alaska Wilderness League (www.alaskawild.org)
Seattle Pro Musica...




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