Awakening The Soul of the Writer - 2011

Thursday, March 10 - Evening readings.
Friday, March 11 - Workshop options
Saturday, March 12 - Keynote Address with Ann Hood

Ann Hood is the author of the bestselling novel, THE KNITTING CIRCLE, and the memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, which was named one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes.
Her new novel, THE RED THREAD, is the story of six couples adopting babies from China. It is also the story of Maya, who runs the adoption agency after losing her baby daughter. And it is the story of six women in China who are forced to give up a baby girl they love. The Chinese legend of the red thread is that our children are connected to us by an invisible red thread. No matter how tangled or frayed it becomes, our child is waiting for us at the other end. "Who is at the end of your red thread?" Maya asks each couple. In THE RED THREAD, we can imagine that magical, enduring connection.
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