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Ellen Rupel Hansen's play, Wish Upon A Christmas Eve, was presented on December 9, 2008 following the 10 a.m. meeting of the Plateau Area Writers Association at the Enumclaw Library.

Admission is free, but PAWA donates to local food banks, so your contribution of a food item would be well received.

Wish Upon A Christmas Eve is a one-act play in three scenes.

Ellen tells us she began “to write when I was eight years old and continued all my life.” She never actually sold a manuscript for money until I attended classes taught by Colleen Reece at the Senior Center in Auburn. She taught the practical rules for submitting manuscripts, which enabled Ellen to sell some of her work. She continued; “My mother, Celia M. Rupel, wrote a weekly, insightful column in poetry form for a local Baker, Oregon newspaper during the Great Depression. She was paid with turkeys at Thanksgiving times, and at Christmas, five-pound boxes of chocolates. My siblings wrote, too.”

"One night, many years ago, as I was drifting off to sleep, I became aware of a story unfolding in mind. I might have let it morph into a dream, to be forgotten in the morning, but I thought, hmm; this might be good. I’d better get up and write it down. So I went to the kitchen table and wrote through the night. When I finished writing Wish Upon a Christmas Eve it was five a.m. It was published in Starlight magazine.

"Last December it was re-published in the PAWA December Quarterly. After that it came to me that it might be made into a play. As a member of the PAWA affiliated Dennis Keene Memorial Scriptwriter’s Group and with their invaluable help, I was able to write it. I want to acknowledge my indebtedness to Harvey Homan, Laura Curran, Carol Lynn Harp and Lois Walker." ~ Ellen Rupel Hansen

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