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March 29, 2019May 24, 2019 Adirondack Center for Writing Announcements, Local Opportunities

Fran Yardley’s “Finding True North” finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year

Fran Yardley's book, Finding True North, has been chosen as a finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional Category. Winners will be announced in June. Founded in 1998, Foreword Magazine, Inc. is the only media company completely devoted to independent publishing. It exclusively covers university and independent (non “Big … Continue reading Fran Yardley’s “Finding True North” finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year

April 23, 2018April 16, 2018 Adirondack Center for Writing Local Opportunities, Resources

Spring Writes Literary Festival comes to Ithaca

Spring Writes Literary Festival! Thursday, May 3 to May 6 The Community Arts Partnership's Spring Writes Literary Festival: 47 events, 120 regional writers, 10 locations, 4 days in downtown Ithaca! 43 of 47 events are free. There are group readings, workshops for established writers and the word loving public, discussion panels on great subjects, music … Continue reading Spring Writes Literary Festival comes to Ithaca

Everything in the world feels so big and overwhelming right now. At least that’s how it feels for me. So I might suggest that we try to write into the opposite of that feeling. I might suggest that we write something small. Try a teeny confession. Try a teeny compliment. Write a tiny conversation. A tiny love letter. The littlest ode to the smallest object you love, something that can fit whole in your hand. So much is intangible right now, so consider something you can actually touch, or taste or take with you in your pocket. Conjure that teeny tiniest thing and live with the minutiae of it for a minute. ✨

Creative writing responses accepted for this prompt until Friday, June 5. Send yours in!

📍Linda Marshall has published a new book “Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit” from Little Bee Books.

📍Candy J Cooper has a released a new book, “Poisoned Water” from Bloomsbury.

📍Marilyn McCabe has published a new chapbook, “Being Many Seeds”. Watch her videopoem here

📍Eudora Watson has published a new flash fiction piece, “On Going Into the World, Instructions for a Bookworm”

📍”Quitting Time” by Gregory Jeffers has been awarded 1st Place in the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition