ACW and NCPR celebrated the end of the Howl Story Slam's seventh season this past weekend at St. Lawrence University! The night was full of SO MUCH LAUGHTER and a … Continue reading The Howl Story Slam – Season 7 Recap
2024 Kickass Writers Festival
Saranac Lake, NY — On June 7 + 8, 2024, the Adirondack Center for Writing will present the second Kickass Writers Festival, featuring writers, poets, comedians, and other kickass … Continue reading 2024 Kickass Writers Festival
2023 High School Writing Retreat Recap
At the beginning of November, ACW hosted our 19th annual High School Writing Retreat at Paul Smith’s College — a free, two-day event where students from schools all across the … Continue reading 2023 High School Writing Retreat Recap
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
5 Tips: Wild Words Submission Advice
Wild Words: Adirondack Teen Writing Anthology is a new publication of the Adirondack Center for Writing, created to give teens a venue to publish their original creative writing. Any teen … Continue reading 5 Tips: Wild Words Submission Advice
Announcing our faculty for the Fall 2022 High School Writing Retreat!
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, Jon Sands, Karl Michael … 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
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