This collection of essays offers a home-writing workshop experience.For nearly twenty years, participants in the Ashawagh Hall Writers Workshop, under the capable tutelage of Marijane Meaker (also known by the nom de plume M.E. Kerr), have gathered every Thursday night in a small room in a recreation center at the eastern end of Long Island
As the editors discuss in their introduction, the workshop provides "the gift of community" to the typically solitary writer. In three sections, nineteen current and former workshop members expound upon the workshop experience itself, the writing process, and the often frustrating effort to go from struggling scribe to proud and published author. Each writer brings their own point of view to the endeavor, reflecting humor, wisdom, and heartache. This invaluable collection offers a kind of home-workshop, comprised of seasoned writers who know a thing or two about writing.
Review: "A wonderful collection of essays...[Notes from Ashawagh Hall] will help assuage the loneliness of the long distance writer."
-Kaylie Jones, author of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries and Celeste Ascending
"This delightful collection of essays from a local writing workshop will inspire and entertain writers and readers everywhere."
-Hilma Wolitzer, author of In the Flesh and Tunnel of Love
Bio: STACEY DONOVAN is the author of Dive and the forthcoming book Who I Am Keeps Happening.
SUSAN PASHMAN is the author of The Speed of Light.
