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  • January 2024

  • Mon 22

    Online Class – Ballet in a Phone Booth: The Art of Writing Flash Prose with Gwen E. Kirby

    January 22, 2024
    Virtual (Zoom Meeting)

    Online class: 5 weeks 1/22 - 2/26 Class begins: Monday, January 22 Weekly Live Virtual Meetings: Tuesdays, 7 PM (EST)Sliding scale registration fee: $50 to $250 Flash prose is sometimes praised for being the perfect art in an era of short attention spans—but the truth is that a great piece of flash arrests as well as lingers, staying with … Continue reading Online Class – Ballet in a Phone Booth: The Art of Writing Flash Prose with Gwen E. Kirby

    $50 – $250
  • Mon 22

    Online Class – The Woods: Writing From Fairy Tales with Syr Beker

    January 22, 2024
    Virtual (Zoom Meeting)

    Online class: 5 weeks 1/22 - 2/26 Class begins: Monday, January 22 Weekly Live Virtual Meetings: Mondays, 7 PM (EST) Sliding scale registration fee: $50 to $250 This is a five week all-genres course exploring writing from fairy tales. We will develop a practice and process of writing from fairy tales, for inspiration, delight, and liberation. We will define … Continue reading Online Class – The Woods: Writing From Fairy Tales with Syr Beker

    $50 – $250
  • Mon 29

    Online Class – Hitting a New Note: Musical Forms for Poetry Writing with Alina Stefanescu

    January 29, 2024
    Virtual (Zoom Meeting)

    Online class: 5 weeks 1/29 - 3/4 Class begins: Monday, January 29 Weekly Live Virtual Meetings: Mondays, 8 PM (EST)Sliding scale registration fee: $50 to $250 This class is full! Fugues, sonatas, ballads, blues stanzas, the bop—all human history gives us an active dialogue between music and poetic forms. This class uses music theory and poetic forms as an … Continue reading Online Class – Hitting a New Note: Musical Forms for Poetry Writing with Alina Stefanescu

    $50 – $250
  • Mon 29

    Online Class – Setting the Scene in Historical Fiction with Kim van Alkemede

    January 29, 2024
    Virtual (Zoom Meeting)

    Online class: 5 weeks 1/29 - 3/4Class begins: Monday, January 29 Weekly Live Virtual Meetings: Thursday, 6:30 PM (EST)Sliding scale registration fee: $50 to $250 Historical fiction aims to situate unique characters in compelling situations set in the past that will resonate with readers today. Though research is important, the building block that brings historical fiction to … Continue reading Online Class – Setting the Scene in Historical Fiction with Kim van Alkemede

    $50 – $250
  • March 2024

  • Mon 11

    Online Class – Hitting a New Note: Musical Forms for Poetry Writing (Section 2) with Alina Stefanescu

    March 11, 2024 - April 12, 2024
    Virtual (Zoom Meeting)

    Online class: 5 weeks 3/11 - 4/12Class begins: Monday, March 11Weekly Live Virtual Meetings: Mondays, 8 PM (EST)Sliding scale registration fee: $50 to $250 Fugues, sonatas, ballads, blues stanzas, the bop—all human history gives us an active dialogue between music and poetic forms. This class uses music theory and poetic forms as an entryway into poetry writing. … Continue reading Online Class – Hitting a New Note: Musical Forms for Poetry Writing (Section 2) with Alina Stefanescu

    $50 – $250
  • June 2024

  • Wed 19

    Sketch it Out! A Writing (& Drawing) Workshop with Lauren McGovern

    June 19, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Adirondack Center for Writing 15 BROADWAY SL, Saranac Lake, New York

    Mix it up! Toss an illustration into your personal narrative. Bring a current writing project or develop a new one at this event. No drawing experience is necessary. How can … Continue reading Sketch it Out! A Writing (& Drawing) Workshop with Lauren McGovern

    Free
  • Sat 29

    Queer Nature: A Writing Workshop with Elliot Pecora

    June 29, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
    Adirondack Center for Writing 15 BROADWAY SL, Saranac Lake, New York

    Saturday, June 29, 12:30-2:30 PM - ACW - $10 Suggested donation In this workshop–informed by Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House, 2022)–students will interact hands-on with a variety of … Continue reading Queer Nature: A Writing Workshop with Elliot Pecora

    Free
  • July 2024

  • Wed 31

    Portrait of a Bank Robber with Danny Killion & Matthew Klane

    July 31, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Adirondack Center for Writing 15 BROADWAY SL, Saranac Lake, New York

    Wednesday, July 31, 7 PM - ACW - FREE Killion will share his story and read from his book, Portrait of a Bank Robber. The event will conclude with an open mic … Continue reading Portrait of a Bank Robber with Danny Killion & Matthew Klane

    Free
  • October 2024

  • Tue 15

    What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshop (Section 2)

    October 15, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

    What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshopwith Marilyn McCabeAdults age 55+Adirondack Foundation (Heaven Hill Farm): 304 Bear Cub Rd, Lake Placid, NY 129468 weeks: Tuesdays, Oct 15 … Continue reading What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshop (Section 2)

    $80 – $200
  • Thu 24

    Writers on Broadway

    October 24, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    with Omar Holmon, Roya Marsh, GennaRose Nethercott & Jon Sands Thursday, October 24, 7 PM, FREE, @ ACW Hear the 2024 High School Writing Retreat instructors in action at ACW. … Continue reading Writers on Broadway

  • December 2024

  • Thu 5

    Notice to Appear with Leslie Sainz + Open Mic

    December 5, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Join us for a reading, Q&A, open mic, and book signing with poet Leslie Sainz (Middlebury, VT), author of HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT THE TABLE (Tin House, 2023). … Continue reading Notice to Appear with Leslie Sainz + Open Mic

  • January 2025

  • Wed 22

    Go Off-Kilter

    January 22, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

    Writing short, fabulist fiction with Moriah Hampton (5-week online class) If your favorite fiction is grounded in realism but shoots off in fantastic, odd, or horrific directions, fabulism is for you. This five-week course will familiarize students with fabulism through stories by well-known offbeat writers, Aimee Bender, Jamaica Kincaid, and Steven Millhauser, to understand the ways … Continue reading Go Off-Kilter

    $50 – $250
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