![]() ![]() ![]() The annual retreats seek to assist emerging and established writers in honing their work and skills in fiction, non-fiction, memoir and editing in sessions with professional writers and editors. Ansa established the Sea Island Writers Retreats on Sapelo Island, Georgia. ![]() She is at work on her sixth novel, FROM NOW ON, also set in Mulberry, and her first work of nonfiction, Secrets of a Bogart Queen, both to be published by DownSouth Press, the independent publishing company Ms. Ansa grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950’s hearing her grandfather’s stories on the porch of her family home and strangers’ stories downtown in her father’s juke joint, which have inspired Mulberry, Georgia, the mythical world that is the setting of her first five novels BABY OF THE FAMILY, UGLY WAYS, THE HAND I FAN WITH, YOU KNOW BETTER and TAKING AFTER MUDEAR. She calls herself part of a writing tradition, one of those little Southern girls who always knew she wanted to tell stories. But above all, she is a storyteller and cultural icon. Tina McElroy Ansa is an award-winning novelist, publisher, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist. This virtual event via Zoom is free for Hammonds House Museum members and $5 for non-members. Ansa’s career and her new book MEETING AT THE TABLE: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community. Michelle’s special guest will be Tina McElroy Ansa and they’ll discuss Ms. ![]() HHM Digital presents Wine & Words with Michelle Gipson on Tuesday, March 23 at 7 PM (EST). ![]()
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