Allison Ellis

CNF writer & book hoarder finishing up a memoir. Words in @Funny_Women @AssayJournal @fourthgenre. I also teach at @hugohouse

[Allison Ellis @AllisonEEllis]

I'm co-teaching a generative #onlinewritingclass you don't want to miss! Field Trips & Hidden Portals: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday. Sundays 10-noon PST starting 7/30 online via @HugoHouse See you there! https://t.co/y7GlYiNGYG

[Allison Ellis @AllisonEEllis]

A few more spots open in our spring collage & poetry class at @SeattleParks Laurelhurst Community Center. No experience necessary, this is going to be super fun! https://t.co/gsChXAK1p0 #artclass #seattle

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My latest essay in the spring issue of @FourthGenre about ferry crossings, between-places, art, and the rustlings of the dead can be found here: https://t.co/5V02Ihi70Y

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@bruceowensgrimm awesome, can't wait!!

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@meganmargulies lol my kids are older and AWP23 is in my hometown so I still get to come home to dirty socks on the floor but when I was in San Antonio I lounged in bed, walked around town like a famous author nobody had ever heard of, and threw literary swag ALL OVER THE HOTEL BED😀

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@bruceowensgrimm Please tell the ghosts hi from their BFF Allison in Seattle! 👻 Will miss you this week!❤️

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(So when you sign up for this #AWP23 Open Mic Nite next Friday, you know what to do.) https://t.co/me11xMntj4

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Great tips for giving a great live reading from @ChelseaHodson https://t.co/0vM9l8SDoF

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@TJ_Tranchell Yes! Please bring on the Mormon horror! You'll be in great company. Looking forward to seeing you!

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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

[Allison Ellis @AllisonEEllis]

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

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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

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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.

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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 🙏📚

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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

[Cynthia Newberry Martin @catchingdays]

Kicking off @writingxwriters weekend online Get the Lead Out with @Ginafrangello & @wildandincolor & @pam_houston #writing #writewxw And here’s a slice of us…

[Allison Ellis @AllisonEEllis]

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

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@RussinEmily Haha you mean I have to turn on my TV? I will do it, promise!

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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--

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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?)