Identical twins Ava and Brin sit in a mysterious restaurant awaiting their order. What they are about to be served will put a cherished twin tradition to a test.
Story
Anne Hellman
(she/her) Mentor
Anne Hellman is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer whose short stories and essays have appeared in The Ladyfest Anthology, Catapult, Tertulia, Curio, Guestbook, and others. She founded The Grandmother Project in 2020, and she is currently a writing Mentor with Girls Write Now. Anne’s novel manuscript Dreamer was a semi-finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize from Black Balloon Publishing in 2015. She has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts as well as workshops with Alexander Chee at Tin House and Stewart O'Nan at Writing Workshops Dublin. Anne published Design Brooklyn with Abrams in 2013.
Favorite Authors & Artists
Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Cusk, Virginia Woolf
Artist‘s Statement
This past year, I completed a second fiction project, while also working on a novel that has been almost eight years in the making. The second project, a horror novella about identical twins on a road trip (a la Jordan Peele and Alfred Hitchcock), has invigorated my writing practice, as well as my work on the full-length novel. I was admitted into Writing Workshops Dublin in April 2023, where I worked with Stewart O’Nan and a group of amazingly talented writers, on both fiction projects. My work with Girls Write Now, with my wonderful mentee Ayah, has brought everything together.