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Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. Her books include: Crowned, Hemisphere, Watch Us Rise, a YA collaboration with Renée Watson, Blooming Fiascoes, Reckless, Glorious, Girl, Don’t Call Me a Hurricane and All That Shines. She has a new YA project forthcoming in 2025 with her partner David Flores. Ellen's poems and essays can be found in Oprah Magazine, ESPNW, So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (edited by Aracelis Girmay), Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Ellen's performance work has been showcased at The New York International Fringe and Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival. She is the recipi
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Prompt #1: What is bedrock for you?

The more I read, the more I want to write. The more I write, the more I look for prompts and ideas out in the world. If you are interested in joining me, or want to start a journaling or poem writing process, I invite you to write with me! I will be posting prompts here and on my website: www.ellenhagan.com to get your mind moving. I always tell my students there is no wrong way to begin. You just Read more of this blog post »
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“You have to find where you are needed.
You cannot wait for other people.
You would be waiting forever,” my mom adds.
“Same with the island. It was us.
It was the grandmothers. The mothers.
It was you, Isa and Eliza, who started this organization.
It was the women who saw the need and met it.
Face forward. Unafraid. Who showed up. It was us.”
Ellen Hagan, Don't Call Me a Hurricane

“You are the ocean to me,” he says.
I shake my head. “Is that line you say to every girl?”
“Uhh…no! I have never compared anyone else to a massive body of water that could take me under.”
“You think I could take you under?”
“I think you already have.”
Ellen Hagan, Don't Call Me a Hurricane

“Finding people to follow our struggle.
And it’s true we are still struggling all these years later.
Still watching the rising tide, still re-building, re-zoning, re-doing, re-imagining, still wondering how we’ll become whole again. After losing so much. We push on.”
Ellen Hagan, Don't Call Me a Hurricane

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