Holy Smokes, We’re FIVE!

Holy cannoli, we’re FIVE this month. That’s right, Hazel & Wren has been around for five whopping years. We like to think about growing into this next stage in three ways: first, we want to thank you for being a part of this community, and to ask for your help in reflecting back on the last five years. Which leads us to the next step: looking forward based on your feedback and other ideas that we’ve been fermenting. And finally, we wouldn’t be us if we didn’t celebrate with an adult beverage! Read on for more details…

Step 1: Survey
This is a community for and of writers and readers. In order to keep this community-focused, we need input from you. If you have five minutes to take this survey and offer us your feedback, requests, and ideas, we would be forever grateful to you.

Step 2: New column
We don’t have a name for it yet, but we want to give you the inside scoop on a new column idea we’ve been hatching. Think of it as an epistolary of casual conversations between Hazel & Wren staff and artists on current topics relevant to our world (literary and otherwise) today. It’s similar to the idea behind The Writing Life, but more exploratory and casual in nature, with an emphasis on the act of correspondence itself. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks!

Step 3: Celebrate!
Have a TOAST with (and on) us! That’s right. We’re hosting an informal celebration at Boneshaker Books next Thu, March 17. The festivities will start at 6:00 pm. There will be prizes, good company, literary mischief, snacks, and beverages (adult and otherwise) while supplies last. Please join us for some five-year-old fun!

And so, we close with a humble thank you. Thank you for accepting us into this vibrant literary community, thank you for supporting us through our first five years, and thank you for putting up with our tongue-in-cheek humor. Y’all are oh-so-dear to our coffee-crazed hearts.

Yours in Literary Mischief,
Team Hazel & Wren