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Twixt Stew
By Ellen Weeren
Up on Lookout Mountain, Melissa toted a copper pot half-filled with exactly 16 ounces of distilled water mixed with one evenly leveled teaspoon of her mother’s ashes, being mostly careful (as instructed) not to spill a single drop.
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About Ellen
Ellen Weeren’s work has been published by the Saturday Evening Post, the Kenyon Review (KRonline), Hunger Mountain, Liars’ League NYC, the Hong Kong Review, Crack the Spine, Stonecoast Review, and others. She’s the recipient of the George Mason 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award (MFA Fiction), the Porches Writing Fellowship, the Dan Rudy Fiction Award, the Marjorie Kinnear Sydor Award in Literary Citizenship, and the Kenyon Review’s Novel Writing Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship. TripBase twice recognized her blog about living in India as one of the top 10 best travel blogs.
Ellen is working on a novel titled In the Dust of Elephants, and she will have a short story collection coming out from Cornerstone Press in September of 2027.
Ellen runs writing retreats and workshops. Information on those can be found at A Reason To Write.
Ellen also works with college applicants via Make My Essay Better, helping students craft compelling, well-structured essays that showcase their unique voices and aspirations.
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Ellen Weeren at the 2026 Bridging Innovation Conference
Ellen will be leading Story Powered: How to Find Your Why and Tell It Like It Matters at the 2026 Bridging Innovation Conference, hosted by the WV Entrepreneur Ecosystem. This hands-on Impact Workshop is designed for entrepreneurs and innovators ready to move beyond the pitch and into the story beneath it.
Join Ellen on April 28th at 11 AM to discover the narrative that drives your work — and learn to tell it in a way that resonates, connects, and compels.
