Madeleine Hayes
Host
Madeleine is a part-time writer, part-time innkeeper who is working on converting her 1880 Victorian house into a Bed and Breakfast. Her current project is a cozy novel featuring a witch in a small, quirky New England town. In her (non-existent) free time, she produces a Bones rewatch podcast with her dad and takes her husky-mix on multi-mile walks.
As your host and fellow writer, Madeleine will be participating in workshops, meals, and writing blocks. She’ll be available to tell you about the best walking trails, share the swimming hole locations, and assist with any issues that may arise during your stay.
November J. Brown
Workshop Leader
November J. Brown (@writesofnovember) is a writer, social media strategist, and influencer with over 200,000 followers. She uses her experience as a creative-writing graduate, literary agent intern, and bookseller to share resources, advice, and motivation to writer girlies around the world. Her favorite stories to write feature cosmic peculiarities, women, and trees. She lives in Madison, WI with her fiancé and a small, fluffy menace named Panda Bear.
In addition to leading two workshops, November will be available for daily office hours so you can get personalized advice on your work, and craft the beginnings of your social media presence as a writer.
Ellen Parent
Workshop Leader
Ellen Parent has been telling stories since the mid-nineties, when she started whispering them down to her sister on the bottom bunk. Her poetry has been published in Bloodroot, Vermont Magazine, Birchsong, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Vermont Writers Prize. Her debut novel, After the Fall, was released in December. She lives in rural Vermont with her delightful husband, her precocious daughter, and two eccentric cats. Learn more about her work at www.ellenparent.com.
Andrew Hayes
Chef
Andrew is Madeleine’s father, Airbnb co-host, and your personal chef for the week. After a thirty-year career as a professor, Andrew has spent his retirement learning to assistant-brew and working in the kitchen of his favorite restaurant, Slate Town.