The Writers' Factory: Author Talk with Ramona Ausubel for her new book: UNSTUCK

Author Talk Featuring Ramona Ausubel on Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm at the Reading Room above ReRead Booksellers

Come join for a special night with award-winning author Ramona Ausubel as she discusses her newest book Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading from the First page to the Last Page.

The evening will include a brief reading, conversation led by CT author Lara Ehrlich (author of Animal Wife & Bind Me Tighter Still, and founder of Thought Fox Writer’s Den), Q & A session, and book signing (supplies are limited, please register in advance to have a book available for purchase at the event).

About the Author:

Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her newest novel, The Last Animal, received a Science + Literature Prize from the National Book Foundation and was a National Bestseller and a Barnes & Noble monthly pick. Her newest book will be out in Spring, 20216, Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading From the Blank Page to the Last Page is a companion for writers at all stages of the process (Tin House Zando). Ausubel is the winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, she has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, California and Colorado Book Awards and long-listed for the Story Prize, Frank O’Connor International Story Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award and New York Times Notable Book selections. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, The New York Times, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, The Oxford American,  The Best American Fantasy and online in The Paris Review.

Ramona has taught at Tin House, The Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, The Community of Writers, Writing by Writers, the Low-Residency MFA programs at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Bennington. She is a professor at Colorado State University.

About the New Book:

Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading from the Blank Page to the Last Page is about staying in love with your writing: feeling excited, mischievous, productive, and hopeful—the opposite of being stuck.

Critically acclaimed, award-winning author and beloved teacher Ramona Ausubel offers 101 exercises that promise to welcome you back to the page again and again; to reinvigorate your process and help you see your writing through to the end. Full of personal stories and hard-earned wisdom of a veteran writer, Unstuck is written in the first person, human to human, writer to writer. Practical, clear, and welcoming, Unstuck offers immediately useable strategies for beginning, continuing, and finishing a piece of writing.

Organized into doorways and keys, Unstuck turns problems into possibilities, offers keys to put into use right now, all designed to lead the writer back to the art, not toward an outside idea or formula. With Ausubel’s steady, encouraging advice—find your doorway, unlock the lock, and get writing again.