![]() “I think it was more that I needed that confidence. “And then after publishing ‘Animal Wife’ in 2020, my short story collection, I felt like I had some credentials now and I could start teaching,” she said. She later advanced to programs like Tin House, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop and Bread Loaf. “So it made it feel tangible and that there was a path that had started to take shape toward publication.”įrom there, Ehrlich “took classes and workshops everywhere,” from GrubStreet in Boston to Story Studio in Chicago. I made friends with people who were also writing novels and hadn’t published anything yet,” she said. They had workshops on doing your taxes as a freelancer and as a writer. “They had agent time slots where you could chat with an agent. “And none of them obviously were published.”Īfter college, Ehrlich made her way to the Midwest Writers Conference at Ball State University, where she sought information on how to finish a manuscript, get an agent and become a published author. “The only thing I could think of to do was to send stories to the New Yorker in a big envelope that I decorated with stickers and cartoons,” she said. “It wasn’t a great novel, but it was a novel,” she added.īut Ehrlich kept writing and submitted work for publication. She said she wrote a novel for her college thesis. But it felt like actually finishing something, much less publishing something, was sort of ambiguous and out of reach,” she said. “I always wanted to be a writer and wrote half-finished novels, pages in journals, just everything. It seemed like a great umbrella to bring all of those ventures under,” she told CT Examiner during a visit to her space on June 6.Įhrlich’s business is not only about promoting community and literary citizenship and encouraging writers, she said, but also creating a space for them to connect on works in progress and published pieces. “I thought, how can I put all of those things together into a full-time workload and make those central to what I do? That’s where Thought Fox came in. She had always held a full-time job while writing on the side, but in January she made a decision to combine all of her side hustles – fiction, manuscript consultations, freelance writing and editing, teaching – into one package. She runs a podcast called “Writer Mother Monster” and has worked as the director of marketing for the International Arts Festival in New Haven. I think it’ll seat 10 to 12 people,” said Ehrlich, who plans to teach classes and hold events at Thought Fox Writers Den, her new writing center and retail shop located in the Velvet Mill.Įhrlich, 42, is the author of “Animal Wife,” a book of short stories, and an editor and writing teacher. ![]() ![]() “I have leaves over there that will expand the table by multiple feet. STONINGTON - In a dark green, cozy room decorated with icons, books, poetry and antiques, Lara Ehrlich sat at a large table, while her puppy, Cocoa, slept in a chair nearby. ![]()
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