Annex Arts is launching its newly published book, A Knock at the Door, four separate stories written by 25 authors during the time of Quarantine.
Initiated during Summer 2020, when COVID-19 restrictions limited our programming and people were hungry for ways to engage in the arts, the Pass-it-On Collaborative Novella was a project in which the multiple authors were assigned numbers drawn from a hat and then wrote a chapter when it was their turn. Following the chapters by the writers before them, authors then passed their work off to the writers after them. Author and Castine resident, Johanna Sweet, led the way, sending out assignments to each of the writers.
Our writers worked on the novellas from June to August 2020, some of the tenser months of the pandemic. People from varied careers and backgrounds contributed to this project and did wonderful work.
