$10 - $50 sliding scale Saturday, November 2, 12 - 3pm, @ ACW Learn the basics of cartooning and storytelling with graphic novelist Sumit Kumar, owner of Bakarmax animation studio. Kumar will help reduce your fear of drawing with simple exercises, varied approaches to illustration, and his personal tips and tricks. Students will explore how comics tell … Continue reading Comics 101 Seminar with Sumit Kumar
Thursday, Nov 7, 6 PM, @ ACW What if Nature was on the Board of Directors of every nonprofit in the Adirondacks? What if businesses listened to the voice of ecosystems before making decisions that would impact them? Businesses and nonprofits from the Netherlands to the Bahamas are striving to act in a respectful way … Continue reading Nature Governance in the Adirondacks with Talking Rivers
Armstrong Room of the High Peaks Resort Should you adapt your book into a screenplay? And if so, how? Whether you’re writing a novel, memoir, short story or creative nonfiction, this conversation with Adirondack Center For Writing Director Nathalie Thill and WGA Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger will give you a new perspective on the … Continue reading The Art of Adaptation
Join us Tue, Nov 12, at 7 PM for a night of live storytelling with the theme “Close Call.” Anyone can sign up to tell a story at the beginning of the night! Stories must be: No tickets needed. Admission to each slam is a $10/pay-what-you-can donation which will be split between ACW & our Howl partner, NCPR.
With Carla Stockton & Laurie Spigel Wednesday, November 13, 7 PM, Free to attend Adirondack Center for Writing (15 Broadway, Saranac Lake, NY 12983) Join Saranac Lake graduate Carla Stockton and her colleague Laurie Spigel – both female authors who published their first books after age 50 – for a discussion on publishing, feminism, educating children … Continue reading Debut When It’s Right For You: A panel on publishing later in life
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 … 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 … Continue reading You Do Not Have to Be Good
