Every year, we bring three renown spoken-word poets from NYC to lead two days of writing workshops and performances for North Country high schoolers. This year, JosĂ© Olivarez, Jon Sands, … Continue reading Announcing our faculty for the Fall 2022 High School Writing Retreat!
Design A Banned Book Cover for ACW’s Window Display
Books unite us. Censorship divides us. Founded in 1982, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and drawing national attention to the harms of censorship. … Continue reading Design A Banned Book Cover for ACW’s Window Display
Recap: 2022 Kickass Writers Festival
On August 19 & 20th, ACW hosted the first ever Kickass Writers Festival at venues all over Saranac Lake. With 200+ registrants and over 400 total attendees across our dozen … Continue reading Recap: 2022 Kickass Writers Festival
Quick Write Competition: 2022 Kickass Writers Festival
During the 2022 Kickass Writers Festival, we invited attendees to write a short piece reflecting on an event, moment, or emotion observed during the two-day festival. We called it a … Continue reading Quick Write Competition: 2022 Kickass Writers Festival
Erasure Nature Workshop Poems
We're excited to share some of the work created in Visiting Writer Erin Dorney's Erasure + Nature Writing Workshop, held during the 2022 Kickass Writers Festival in August! Participants used … Continue reading Erasure Nature Workshop Poems
Announcing the 2022 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residents!
This past spring, we opened applications for our eighth annual 2022 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency, taking place once again at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake in Big Moose, NY … Continue reading Announcing the 2022 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residents!
Zine Workshops at SLHS & ACW
Zines are an opportunity for students to serve at the intersection of maker, expert, and teacher. Students can tell stories and share their knowledge through both images and text and … Continue reading Zine Workshops at SLHS & ACW
National Endowment for the Arts Awards ACW $50,000
Adirondack Center for Writing has been recommended for a highly selective grant from a prestigious national arts organization for consistent excellence in arts programming.
Announcing the selected writers for the 2021 Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency
ACW is thrilled to announce the 2021 selected residents for the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency, taking place October 3 - 17 at the Lodge at Twitchell Lake. This year … Continue reading Announcing the selected writers for the 2021 Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency