Events Archive

Writing Circle Mondays | John Stoddard Cancer Center

posted: Apr 22nd, 2024

Writing Circle Mondays: Each session participants create a safe space, and then write together to timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompt inspire stories from participants' lives...

Swift Youth Writers Group - Writing for Teens

posted: Apr 14th, 2024

Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...

Author Spotlight | Poets Paul Brooke & Jennifer Knox

posted: Mar 29th, 2024

Here at the Ames Writers Collective we like to refer to Paul and Jen as the "Jen and Paul Show." Together they will entertain you with...

Writing Circle Mondays | John Stoddard Cancer Center

posted: Mar 25th, 2024

Writing Circle Mondays: Each session participants create a safe space, and then write together to timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompt inspire stories from participants' lives...

Writing Circle Wednesdays

posted: Mar 6th, 2024

Writing Circle Wednesdays are for individuals who are currently receiving or who have completed cancer treatments...

Open Write Tuesday with Speculative Fiction Author Rachel Aukes

posted: Feb 27th, 2024

Join Kris Abel-Helwig for our Open Write Tuesday on Zoom.

Writing Circle Wednesdays

posted: Feb 14th, 2024

Writing Circle Wednesdays are for individuals who are currently receiving or who have completed cancer treatments...

Writing Circle Mondays | John Stoddard Cancer Center

posted: Feb 12th, 2024

Writing Circle Mondays: Each session participants create a safe space, and then write together to timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompt inspire stories from participants' lives...

Swift Youth Writers Group - Writing for Teens

posted: Feb 11th, 2024

Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...

Writing Circle Wednesdays

posted: Feb 7th, 2024

Writing Circle Wednesdays are for individuals who are currently receiving or who have completed cancer treatments...

Writing Circle Wednesdays

posted: Jan 31st, 2024

Writing Circle Wednesdays are for individuals who are currently receiving or who have completed cancer treatments...

OLLI-ISU | Mining Your Journals For Story Gems

posted: Jan 29th, 2024

Writing Circle Mondays | John Stoddard Cancer Center

posted: Jan 22nd, 2024

Writing Circle Mondays: Each session participants create a safe space, and then write together to timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompt inspire stories from participants' lives...

Swift Youth Writers Poetry Workshop

posted: Jan 21st, 2024

Youth writers, listen up! You are invited to join poet Caleb Rainey for three poetry workshops designed especially for Central Iowa Youth. These workshops are completely free... Jan 7, 14, and 21

Swift Youth Writers Group - Writing for Teens

posted: Jan 14th, 2024

Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...

Swift Youth Writers Poetry Workshop

posted: Jan 7th, 2024

Youth writers, listen up! You are invited to join poet Caleb Rainey for three poetry workshops designed especially for Central Iowa Youth. These workshops are completely free... Jan 7, 14, and 21

Author Spotlight Featuring Joe Geha

posted: Dec 9th, 2023

Join us for an Author Spotlight featuring Joe Geha, author of Kitchen Arabic...

Building Community through the Art of Writing

posted: Nov 13th, 2023

Open to members of the Iowa State University Women's Club

Author Spotlight Featuring Dr. Douglas Gentile

posted: Oct 27th, 2023

Join us for an Author Spotlight featuring Dr. Douglas Gentile, author and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University. A Zen Buddhist monk and meditation teacher, he...

Writing That Scary Thing—A Women's Writing Retreat

posted: Oct 16th, 2023

Most of us give little thought to how we would like to be remembered in our obituaries. The thought of writing it may be scary. But writing your obituary does not signal the end of your life. Instead, it is a wonderful opportunity to reflect, receive feedback from others, and to plan how you wish to live the rest of your best life...

Swift Youth Writers Group - Writing for Teens

posted: Oct 8th, 2023

Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...

Swift Literary Festival—Pop-Up Event

posted: Sep 24th, 2023

Join the Ames Writers Collective at our 2nd Annual Swift Literary Festival, on Sunday, September 24th at the annual Octagon Art Festival. (10 AM to 4 PM)

Author Spotlight Featuring Deb Kline

posted: Sep 14th, 2023

Swift Youth Writers Group - Writing for Teens

posted: Sep 10th, 2023

Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...

Ames Writers Collective Founder @ Poetry Palooza!

posted: Apr 6th, 2023

Friday and Saturday are filled with workshops and open mics at Mainframe Studios, and Poetry Palooza! concludes with a panel discussion at NOON on Saturday featuring moderator, Debra Marquart and panelists that include Ana McCracken, founder of the Ames Writers Collective. Click here for more information and to RSVP for the FREE events.

Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

posted: Apr 1st, 2023

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum ...

Author Spotlight | Kris Abel-Helwig

posted: Mar 7th, 2023

Come meet Kris Abel-Helwig at the Ames Public Library.

Writing Through Cancer Meets [UNTITLED]: how a breast cancer survivor learned to say goodbye to her boobs

posted: Jan 7th, 2023

Bring your notebook and pen to the Octagon on Saturday, January 7th, and invite your muse to write to writing prompts inspired by the Octagon exhibit, [UNTITLED]: how a breast cancer survivor learned to say goodbye to her boobs...

Beth M. Howard in Conversation - Author Spotlight

posted: Dec 9th, 2022

Join us for a live conversation at KHOI Radio with author Beth M. Howard

Music & Conversation Between Friends

posted: Oct 1st, 2022

It's our anniversary! Join us on October 1st for a celebratory evening featuring authors Tom Montgomery Fate and John T. Price and poet and vocalist, Debra Marquart and The Bone People.

Dennis Maulsby—Author Spotlight

posted: Sep 29th, 2022

LIVE at KHOI - Author Spotlight featuring Dennis Maulsby

In 650 Words—The College Essay Workshop

posted: Sep 27th, 2022

The way to tackle the college essay is to simply begin, and this workshop will provide a starting point to make the writing task less daunting.

Swift Youth Writers Workshop

posted: Jul 18th, 2022

Over the course of five days, July 18-22, young writers will come together in a safe space to read an inspirational piece of writing and write together to timed-writing prompts. FREE

Words Meet Art at the Octagon

posted: Sep 23rd, 2021

Words Meet Art is a literary arts event celebrating the intersection of words and art.