Anna Quinn and Peter Quinn, owners of the Writers' Workshoppe and Imprint Books in Port Townsend, Wash., are selling the store to Samantha Ladwig and Thom Nienow, who will officially take over on October 1. The business combines a general-interest bookstore with a writing workshop that runs programs more than a dozen times each week. The Quinns have owned Writers' Workshoppe/Imprint Books for 12 years.
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Anna Quinn wrote on Facebook that while the experience has been "wild, fantastic, exhausting and completely mind-blowing," they are ready for new creative spaces and pursuits. She added that they step away with confidence that the space "will continue to flourish, whisper, thunder and boom, in all the original and imaginative ways possible," under Ladwig and Nienow's leadership.
Ladwig has been a bookseller and workshop instructor at Writers' Workshoppe and Imprint Books for the past several years, and is a writer of essays and nonfiction. She said of the transition: "This next chapter is a huge honor and we are overwhelmingly grateful to Anna Quinn and Peter Quinn for this opportunity. We're also terrified and excited and nervous and giddy and a whole lot of other things, but mostly we're grateful."