Ellis Avery

Ellis Avery

Welcome to the website of the Best Writer You've Never Heard Of But Should Go Read Right Now, according to the New York Press.

One year, three awards, and seven translations after coming out in hardcover, Ellis Avery's first novel, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, is now available in paperback from Riverhead Books.

Avery is also the author of a nonfiction book, THE SMOKE WEEK (Gival Press, 2003), an award-winning personal account of daily life in Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.

Click here to read Avery's American Library Association 2008 Stonewall Fiction Award acceptance speech.

A FULL-PAGE REVIEW IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES!

When [Avery's narrator] remarks, How beautiful, to see something done simply and well, she could easily be speaking about THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a novel that, like the tea ceremony itself, provides true pleasure to the intellect and all the senses.
-----Emily Barton, author of BROOKLAND.

CLASSES

Coming soon...
COMMIT TO YOURSELF: a creative writing workshop.

Thursday nights, 7-9pm, for eight weeks starting 9/30/10.
$450, $400 if you register before 9/15.
Location: West Village, NYC.

Click here for more information!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, 3/27, reading at 2pm, tabling from 2ish-5:30pm at the Rainbow Book Fair in Manhattan, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, concourse level.

Saturday, 4/3, 7pm, reading at the Cavalier Literary Couture launch party at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street in Manhattan.

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photo by Matthew Powell

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