Submissions are now open for the 2024 Wild Words Adirondack Teen Writing Anthology, presented by the Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW). This new print publication is a place for teens … Continue reading Wild Words 2024: ACW Seeks Writing By North Country Teens
Postcard Poems: A Broadside Series for NY Writers
The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) is pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions to our Postcard Poems broadside series. Writers based in New York state are … Continue reading Postcard Poems: A Broadside Series for NY Writers
Recap: Youth Essay Contest Winners + Celebration
Pictured above: Emma Anand, winner of the "My Dreams for My Community" essay contest in the Youth category (Ages 13- 18), reading at a celebration at ACW, August 2023. In … Continue reading Recap: Youth Essay Contest Winners + Celebration
From Campers to Authors: our first summer camp for kids!
This August, with the help of our second Rainbow Lake Writer in Residence, Francesca Padilla, we hosted ACW's first kids writing camp. Twelve campers in grades 5 - 8 joined us for 5 days in August to get inspired, pursue a story idea, create a physical book, and make copies to distribute however they please.
Announcing our 2023 Anne LaBastille Residents
The Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency is entering its tenth year in 2023, and we're thrilled to share this milestone with six writers who wowed our judges with their writing this summer. Congratulations to the three "Adirondack Region" residents and the three "From Anywhere" residents who will join us for two weeks this fall on Twitchell Lake.
Our first Rainbow Lake Writer-in-Residence: Andrea L. Rogers
Adirondack Center for Writing and Adirondack Swim & Trip Camp (ASTC) have partnered to create a unique writer-in-residence position, offering three weeks of time and space for a writer to work, recreate, and enjoy all the North Country has to offer. Our first resident, Andrea L. Rogers (Fayetteville, Arkansas), stayed in "Rick's Cabin" on the ASTC property from July 3 - 21.
From ACW: One Machine, Six Months, 971 Free Poems
The Adirondack Center for Writing has been bringing our Poetry Machine to locations around the North Country since February 2023, and we don't plan on stopping. The machine has distributed … Continue reading From ACW: One Machine, Six Months, 971 Free Poems
Recap: Pride 2023 and Transgender Poetics at ACW
Read / Listen to an interview w/ Elliot pecora on NCPR At ACW, we've had a commitment to supporting and highlighting LGBTQ+ authors ever since our inception 25 years ago. … Continue reading Recap: Pride 2023 and Transgender Poetics at ACW
Fifty-Year Honeysuckle by Kathleen McCoy
Through the open roof rain rolls off oak leaf lobes. Fifty years since she abandoned the purse she’d emptied on her way, I catch her unmistakable scent of July