Staying in Love with Your Work Zoom Seminar with Ramona Ausubel on Sunday, October 19th, 2025

Sunday, October 19th, 2025 Live Seminar via Zoom from 11:00AM - 1:00PM ET Note: If you can't attend live, this class will be recorded.  Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.  Ramona Ausubel's fifth book, The Last Animal, a novel, was published in April, 2023 from Riverhead Books. Her previous books are Awayland: stories, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Guide to Being Born and No One is Here Except All of Us. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and has been a finalists for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review daily, One Story, Tin House, The Oxford American, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University, on faculty at the Bennington Writing Seminars and has taught at Tin House, Writing by Writers, the Community of Writers, Breadloaf Environmental Conference and elsewhere. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.  Being a writer means coming up against self-doubt. But what if it doesn't have to be so scary? What if the blank page felt more like an invitation than a cliff? Does it sometimes seem like your novel is trying to kill you? Have you considered divorcing a story? Me too. In this seminar, we will work through a series of exercises designed to bring joy and a sense of possibility and invention so that you and your writing will once again be besties (or at least unlikely to murder each other). COURSE TAKEAWAYS: Real and immediately useful doorways back into your pages. A renewed sense of connection to your work. SEMINAR OUTLINE: This is a one-session, two-hour workshop in which Ramona offers eight "Doorways" back into your work, each accessible and useful immediately. TAKE THIS CLASS IF: You're finding the constraints of your current writing practice too limiting. You want exposure to a range of new approaches to bring to your writing practice. You want an expanded sense of what is possible in your work in 2025 and beyond! PRAISE FOR RAMONA AUSUBEL: “I know it’s hard to imagine, but The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel, is like a sweeter, more poignant version of ‘Jurassic Park. . .’ This shaggy elephant story is as much about surviving family grief as it is about living in a world doomed by climate change. And yet, The Last Animal takes flight with all the improbable buoyancy of a pterodactyl.”—Ron Charles, CBS This Morning “Every family, after all, goes extinct eventually. The paradox that this novel confronts with such tender sympathy and humor is how to love the time we have left.”—The Washington Post “This extraordinary story hops the globe, combining wild adventures aimed at reversing climate change with a fullhearted portrait of sisterhood, family and the ways we process grief. Charming, wry and original.” —People “Soars where so many other books about family dynamics simply coast. . . Ausubel brings deep emotional truth to her work of dramatic fiction. . . Splicing wit and wisdom, The Last Animal is a bright-eyed meditation on what animates us, biologically as well as emotionally — but most of all, familially.”—NPR “Sustained sorrow… underpins Ramona Ausubel’s new novel,The Last Animal. . The book also manages to be a mirthful romp of chicanery and derring-do.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ausubel’s fourth volume of highly original fabulist fiction. . .marries an extraordinary and slightly bananas scientific adventure with a deeply felt portrait of a mother and daughters healing from terrible loss. . . .An amazing amount of humor, pizazz, wisdom, and wonder packed into a story that is essentially about processing grief.”—Kirkus, STARRED review “The Ice Age meets the Anthropocene in this gem from Ausubel. . .Ausubel is at her best when exploring the ties that bind, especially in a family flung into unprecedented circumstances. In charting the parallel worlds of grief, scientific devotion, and adolescence, Ausubel comes up with a seamless global caper that brims with compassion and makes the reader glad to be alive.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE: Sunday, October 19th, 2025. Live Seminar via Zoom from 11:00AM - 1:00PM ET. Note: If you can't attend live, this class will be recorded. PAYMENT OPTIONS: You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout. Instructor: Ramona Aususbel Sunday, October 19th, 2025 Live Seminar via Zoom from 11:00AM - 1:00PM ET Note: If you can't attend live, this class will be recorded.