Events

with Joy Baglio 3-day workshop on July 8, 10, and 12 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) from 6-8 pm at ACW Do you love reading about magical kingdoms, lands, or alternate worlds? Do you ever find yourself dreaming up or sketching out your own? Are you a teen writer inspired by fairytales, mythology, fantasy, science fiction, ghost … Continue reading Creating Fictional Worlds: A Three-day Creative Writing Workshop for Teen Writers (ages 13-18)

with Stephen Sheffer The skills used to spontaneously create stories on the stage are also useful on the page! Join improviser, writer & actor Stephen Sheffer for a 2-hour workshop that uses improv exercises to tap into your creativity and get you saying "yes, and..." to your ideas! We will play together and then pull … Continue reading Improv for Scriptwriting

Honoring the Voice of Water Have you ever wandered what Water would say if they could speak with human words? Have rivers ever communicated with you? Have you ever talked to lakes and trees? During Adirondack Water Week, organizers and storytellers from Talking Rivers will host a workshop/circular conversation, in which they will invite participants … Continue reading Honoring the Voice of Water: a storytelling workshop with Talking Rivers

Participants will explore how a writer prepares for travel, the writer’s mindset while traveling, and the skills needed to rekindle the experience in the reader’s mind. During the workshop they will experiment with how to choose words, shape sentences and compose the whole of a compelling piece of travel writing. To keep the workshop centered … Continue reading Travel Writing: Finding Your Way with Ken Youngblood