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 … 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 … 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, … 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 … Continue reading Telling Our Hardest Stories w/ Casey Mulligan Walsh
The Howl Season 9 is heading your way! The theme is “Kitchen Confidential.” We’re talking culinary catastrophes, the questionable things you've seen in a restaurant kitchen, the joy of a … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Iron Horse Grill
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 … 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 … 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
