Join Paris Press and Nancy Slonim Aronie for SISTERS Writing from the Heart

Join Nancy Slonim Aronie’s Writing From the Heart and Jan Freeman’s Paris Press for an all-day writing retreat, on Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., at Ashfield’s Curtis House, 14 South Street (home of Gloriosa & Company).

Following the hugely successful publication of Sisters: An Anthology, many women and teens have asked Paris Press to offer writing workshops about sisters. Nancy Slonim Aronie, of Writing From the Heart, will lead her first Pioneer Valley writing retreat with Jan Freeman, co-editor of Sisters and director of Paris Press. Sisters Writing From the Heart will nurture the beginning writer and inspire experienced writers. Teens and adults are welcome. Register soon!

To register and for more information, visit Paris Press, or contact the Press at: info@parispress.org or 413-628-0051.
Workshop: $120. Optional lunch, catered by Gloriosa & Company: $10.  Pay by MasterCard, Visa, or check (Paris Press, P.O. Box 487, Ashfield, MA 01330).

Nancy Slonim Aronie offers writing workshops at Kripalu, Omega Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Wainwright House, The Open Center in NYC, and at other national and international venues. This is her first workshop in the Pioneer Valley! Nancy is the author of Writing From the Heart and the CD The Way We Were. She is a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and recipient of the Eye of the Beholder Artist in Residence Award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

 Jan Freeman is co-editor of Sisters: An Anthology and author of Hyena and Simon Says (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). She recently completed a new collection of poems, Proximity. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, APR, The Oxford Companion to Women Writers in the U.S., The Massachusetts Review, The Women’s Review of Books, and Prairie Schooner. She is a MacDowell Fellow and director of Ashfield’s Paris Press, a small not-for-profit 501(c)(3) press that publishes literature by women that has been overlooked by the independent and mainstream publishing worlds.


Praise for Nancy Slonim Aronie’s WRITING FROM THE HEART workshops:

"Check out the audience at one of Nancy Slonim Aronie's performances: bodies lean toward her, heads nod, faces smile in recognition, eyes brim with tears. Plain spoken, wise and eloquent, Aronie speaks for us all about subjects close to the bone." —Wally Lamb, author, She's Come Undone

"Nancy is warm, wise, hip and hilarious. I laughed and learned all night. She's a consumer's best buy." —Paula Lyons, Ladies Home Journal, WBZ-TV, Boston

"You will hear your voice in a very new way. Nancy makes everything O.K. She's so safe. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You will meet yourself for the very first time." —Susan Rubin, writer, nutritionist

"Nancy is so nurturing and encouraging... I learned more in four mornings than in all the other writing workshops I have taken." —Gail Esposito, advertising copywriter