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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.
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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.
Join us for a live conversation at KHOI Radio with author Beth M. Howard
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, : how a breast cancer survivor learned to say goodbye to her boobs...
Come meet Kris Abel-Helwig at the Ames Public Library.
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...
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 ...
Writers who participated in Words Meet Art Part 1 will present their flash fiction, poems, creative nonfiction, a monologue, and/or perform music in response to the exhibition Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy in the Christian Petersen Art Museum.
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.
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)
Open to members of the Iowa State University Women's Club
Four Swift Youth Writers poets were chosen from a “blind read” contest after attending three poetry writing workshops led by Caleb “The Negro” Poet Rainey in January. The poetry contest winner’s poems will have original score written to them by Dr. Ron McCurdy, who is the composer of the Langston Hughes Project. To kick off […]
Produced in association with the National Willa Cather Center, the Ames Writers Collective and the Ames Public Library will host a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather...