Author Spotlight | Kris Abel-Helwig
Come meet Kris Abel-Helwig at the Ames Public Library.
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 […]
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...
Join Ana McCracken, founder of the Ames Writers Collective for a Pop-Up Writing Through Cancer Session at Survivorship Day 2024...
Join Ames Writers Collective Founder, Ana McCracken for an evening of Words Meet Art held in partnership with "Arts As Alchemy Forgetting to Remember Pieces of Me" a collage exhibit...
Join Ames Writers Collective Founder, Ana McCracken for an evening of Words Meet Art held in partnership with "Arts As Alchemy Forgetting to Remember Pieces of Me" a collage exhibit...