ACW's 18th annual High School Writing Retreat kicked off this past October at Paul Smith's College. We welcomed over one hundred students from ten different North Country high schools (and homeschools) for two days of poetry performances, workshops, and collaborations.
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
Notable Landscapes and Figures of the Adirondacks: Art Exhibit by Incarcerated Artists
Curated by Adirondack Center for Writing and Federal Correctional Institute, Ray Brook Exhibit Open | Saturday, July 3-Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake … Continue reading Notable Landscapes and Figures of the Adirondacks: Art Exhibit by Incarcerated Artists
ADK Book Club
ADK Book ClubLed by Betsy Folwell and Amy GodineAugust 13, 2020 at 7pm via Zoom For the first time ever, two brilliant writers in the region, Betsy Folwell and Amy … Continue reading ADK Book Club
Untamed Salon
Ideas and conversation, for and by Adirondackers A new salon series from Adirondack Center for Writing will invite discovery, conversation, and discourse between neighbors, strangers, and friends. Do you want … Continue reading Untamed Salon
The Good Old Days at LPCA, a collaborator teacher and student original
"Which decade has the BEST music?" asks a character in the new musical The Good Old Days onstage later this month at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The best part... It's up … Continue reading The Good Old Days at LPCA, a collaborator teacher and student original
Reading at Arts Center TONIGHT!
Lecture Series: The Marginalized MajorityBy Onnesha Roychoudhuri Please join us tomorrow night at the Arts Center for a reading from Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Onnesha Roychoudhuri is an editor, journalist, and fiction … Continue reading Reading at Arts Center TONIGHT!
Beat & Verse
RETURNING IN MAY 2020 An open mic for the writing crowd. Got poems? Stories? Songs? Essays? Some blurb on a page that might be something more one day? We want … Continue reading Beat & Verse
Examining Social Class in the Adirondacks
Examining Social Class in the Adirondacks. We’ll explore our personal, interpersonal, and professional experiences in social class through performance & workshops led by Dialogue Arts Project. In our efforts to … Continue reading Examining Social Class in the Adirondacks