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). The event will include a chance for attendees to share up to 5 mins of writing on the mic. Books will be for sale at … Continue reading Notice to Appear with Leslie Sainz + Open Mic
Join us for a casual reading of the book and lyrics at ACW! This will be a cozy presentation of a work-in-progress, a glimpse into the writing process, and the first time a full cast reads the piece out loud! (Please note there will be no music or singing at this reading.) Set against the … Continue reading Jane Eyre, A New Musical
Maybe you always wanted to write. Maybe your new year's resolution is to return to a stalled writing project. Maybe you just want to meet other writing-curious people in the region. This workshop is where you belong. Join novelist Julie Canepa for an accessible, no-experience-necessary creative writing class that will get your pen moving and … Continue reading Pen to Paper: (Re)starting Your Writing Practice with Julie Canepa
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
Join us for the Howl Grand Slam in Saranac Lake! Winning storytellers from this year’s slams will compete head-to-head, telling stories in line with this year’s theme, Childhood Revelations. All ticket sales are now at door - $20 Grab your tickets now to save money and reserve your seat—last time the grand slam was in … Continue reading The Season 8 Howl Grand Slam
An Anthology of Adirondack Legacy Writing Join us for the launch of I Am From All of This and More To Come: an Anthology of Adirondack Legacy Writing, featuring stories and poems by local writers who participated in our 2024 Legacy Writing workshops for older adults. The book combines writing from Adirondack Center for Writing workshops at … Continue reading From All of This and More to Come
How to write and read poems with generosity with Devin Gael Kelly (5-week online class) A poem is an offering. In this five-week class, poet and critic Devin Kelly will introduce students to a language of generosity for modern poetry. Instead of talking prescriptively about a poem's quality ("good" or "bad"), students will take an expansive … Continue reading You Do Not Have to Be Good
How Hometowns Inspire Essays with Athena Dixon (5-week online class) Students will use a variety of creative writing methods and techniques to explore the memories, perceptions, and experiences of their own hometown. By stepping off the path and developing parallel roads in these spaces, students will find new vessels in which to hold the stories they … Continue reading All Roads Lead Home
Join Natalli at the Adirondack Center For Writing for a morning of gentle yoga and journaling. Together, we'll clear and ground our energy through breathwork and movement, allowing us to connect more deeply with ourselves and write from an open heart as we move into guided journaling. No writing experience is needed to participate! While … Continue reading The Creative Flow: A Yoga & Writing Workshop with Natalli Amato
Join us at ACW to cheer on some of our regional teenagers as they compete in the national Poetry Out Loud event. Teens from around the region will recite poems by some of the country's best poets They will be judged on accuracy and performance and the winner will go on to compete in the … Continue reading North Country Poetry Out Loud Competition
ATTENTION: after 5pm on Friday, 2/28, tickets can only be purchased at the door. Fact or Fiction is a fun, live storytelling game where performers tell stories and the audience asks questions in order to determine if what they just heard was true or made-up. (We’ll choose the storytellers in advance to ensure a good … Continue reading Fact or Fiction 2025
Join us at Olive Ridley’s in Plattsburgh for the first Howl of 2025! The theme is “Kitchen Confidential” — we’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you’ve seen in a restaurant kitchen, the joy of a perfectly cooked meal, a secret family recipe, or anything else cooking and kitchen related. Think you’ve got a story to share? … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Olive Ridley’s
