How and Where to Publish Your Writing with Shira Dentz (online class) Join widely published poet Shira Dentz for a crash course in submitting. During this three hour seminar, you'll learn the basics about how to submit work to literary magazines, best practices for making sure your work is considered, and suggestions for magazines, journals, and … Continue reading Submitting Seminar
Join us for a reading from Casey Mulligan Walsh's new memoir, The Full Catastrophe, about her orphaned adolescence, her divorce, and the loss of her young adult son. The book is … Continue reading Telling Our Hardest Stories w/ Casey Mulligan Walsh
The Howl Season 9 is heading your way! The theme is “Kitchen Confidential.” We’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you've seen in a restaurant kitchen, the joy of a … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Iron Horse Grill
Since 2016, ACW has invited writers of all ages, experience levels, and locations within the North Country to send poems to be published and installed in windows in Saranac Lake during National … Continue reading PoemVillage 2025
Join us to celebrate the launch of the 2025 Wild Words Adirondack Teen Writing Anthology. Featuring contributors from towns all over the North Country, the book launch will feature readings … Continue reading 2025 Wild Words Book Launch
The Howl Season 9 is heading to Smoke Signals in Lake Placid! The theme is “Kitchen Confidential.” We’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you’ve seen in a restaurant kitchen, … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Smoke Signals
Join ACW for an 8-week creative writing workshop for adults ages 55+, led by Elaine Handley. Legacy writing encompasses what we wish for our loved ones to know about us and … Continue reading What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshop
The Hyde and the Adirondack Center for Writing are thrilled to collaborate for a celebration of words and works by regional high school students. Students featured in ACW Wild Words publication and … Continue reading A Celebration of Words & Works
Join us for an open mic reading of poems featured in Poem Village 2025. If you’re a poet who contributed to Poem Village 2025, you’re invited and encouraged to get … Continue reading 2025 PoemVillage Open Mic
The Howl Season 9 is heading to the Upper Jay Art Center. The theme is “Kitchen Confidential.” We’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you’ve seen in a restaurant kitchen, … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at UJAC
You Voted and We Listened! Thanks to the astounding number of people who voted on where we should hold our ACW Meet-ups this summer! Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Glens Falls, Saranac Lake, and Elizabethtown received the most votes and/or were the most central town to the most votes, so if you live near any of these communities, we are … Continue reading ACW Meet-up in Plattsburgh
The first ACW Crossword Tournament! Bring your pencils to Hex and Hop Brewing, where you'll race to complete soon-to-be published puzzles generously provided to ACW by The New York Times. Join emcee Ken Aaron, the 123rd-fastest crossword solver in the world, while competing as an individual or in a team of two. Scoring is based … Continue reading ACWXW
