Allison Ellis

Not (yet) a famous author, got skeletons in your closets? Want to read on stage? Just looking for a fun offsite #awp23 event? Come to Elegies: A Literary Open Mic Nite at the Pine Box in Seattle, Friday 3/10, 8 - 10pm https://t.co/QLW0YUkAto

Just a few spots left in Thursday's "Reasons to Quit" writing class at @HugoHouse. It's via Zoom, 1:10- 4:10pm PST. It'll kinda be like therapy but way more fun. Hope to see some of you there! https://t.co/5ChofDttcj

Just a few more days to sign up and we've moved this @hugohouse online so more can join. Bring your dead writing and your literary dead- this is going to be a fun class, I promise! 👻📚 #writing #onlineclass https://t.co/PQVgwUIeAj

Oh, and the Allison academy would also like to give a shout-out to instructors very much alive and well: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joan Didion, EB White, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Michel de Montaigne, Norah Ephron, Mark Twain, and my newest crush, Richard Hugo.

Big, big thanks to the amazing writers & mentors who have shared their writing and wisdom in the world making it possible for me to teach my recent @HugoHouse class, 'All About the Essay.' @BrendaMiller31 @susancheever @DinahLenney @RandonNoble @LidiaYuknavitch @karenbabine 🙏📚

That moment when you’re given a writing prompt to stand up and record your writing on ‘the thing you’d write about if nobody ever saw it’ and suddenly you have an audience. #writewxw https://t.co/FCXoejrzZV

RT @catchingdays: Kicking off @writingxwriters weekend online Get the Lead Out with @Ginafrangello & @wildandincolor & @pam_houston #writin…

You know what's scarier than the blank page? Dead drafts... abandoned scraps... ghosts you've been ghosting. We'll make this fun and get you back in the land of the living again. I'm teaching this 2 session #writingclass at @HugoHouse 3/15 & 3/22 https://t.co/PQVgwUIeAj

How many books--essays--novels??--could have been written, BY ME, by now, if it weren't for those meddling kids... meddling everything, actually. Life vs. art vs. technology vs. etc. etc. etc. I actually have no answers, just putting this on twitter before I'm over word count--

I feel like someone needs to write a braided essay on Betty White, Joan Didion and ____ . Sadly it won't be me as I'm a little zapped out... but surely this deserves some literary attention (or at least a meme?)

Best Christmas gift that keeps on giving. These essays are stunning. Just read work by @amymbowers @LiaPurpura @elissawashuta @SarahEMC2 @RandonNoble & WOW https://t.co/k7lwGQlYSt

Back by popular demand - I'll be teaching 'Ghosts & Apparitions' again at @HugoHouse, this time a 4-session class via Zoom. Lots of spooky-good reading, writing prompts, and discussion! 👻😃https://t.co/HFU8m0FmAN

Yay, @amymbowers! Lovely interview, and I definitely agree that the best writing prompts can be found at the Goodwill Outlet 😊

Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @AssayJournal

In this installment of Assay's To Wit tiny interviews, we spend some time with Amy Bowers, whose piece on Jo Ann Beard we published in our fall issue. Don't miss it! @amymbowers #amreading #interviews https://t.co/npvcSS7jaV

Yepppp. Cheers to milestones. Thank you @curranslc for reading my mind, clearly I am following all the steps: Nightly Itinerary Of Someone Who Desperately Hopes To Sleep Tonight https://t.co/RREUXFJsbX

"It is Thanksgiving and it is all that trickster coyote's fault again." -- Natanya Ann Pulley, "The Trickster Surfs the Floods" (Shapes of Native Nonfiction, ed. Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton) #SundaySentence