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 … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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
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 as wrenching as it is healing, so we're inviting attendees to bring their own story, essay, or poem focused on life's hardest moments. If you're … Continue reading Telling Our Hardest Stories w/ Casey Mulligan Walsh
