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 Poetry Month. This year, each poem we publish will also appear in shop windows in Plattsburgh in collaboration with Outside Art: Plattsburgh Public Art Project, in Malone … 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 of work by teen writers. This event is from 2-4 PM at the Harrietstown Town Hall in Saranac Lake. All are welcome. The 2025, 2024, … 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 The Hyde Collection’s 34th Annual High School Juried Show will present work during this event.
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 on the mic and share your work aloud!
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
Get ready to boogie! Kick off the summer with ACW's Retro Dance Party fundraiser at Mt. Pisgah. Everyone knows we can throw a great party so dust off your dancing shoes and your favorite outfit from the 60s, 70s, or 80s, and why not, the 90s too — the best outfit from each decade will win a … Continue reading Retro Dance Party Fundraiser
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 Potsdam
Explore themes of release and catharsis through A Letter To Burn, a writing workshop in celebration of PRIDE month. What do you need to let go of? What do you … Continue reading A Letter to Burn
