Open Write Tuesdays
On ZoomWriting in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Ames Writers CollectiveAmes Writers CollectiveWriting in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Escape into creative writing and connect with other writers. Over the course of five days, June 26-30, young writers will come together in a safe space to read an inspirational piece of writing and write together to timed-writing prompts. FREE
Teens in 6th - 12th grade are invited to escape into creative writing and connect with other teen writers. Each month on the 2nd Sunday...
Join founder, Ana McCracken for an evening "spotlighting" Third Stanza Poets as they revive their longstanding tradition of hosting 11 Days of Global Unity...
Join us for our Author Spotlight featuring Deb Kline, author and singer songwriter, who will read excerpts, lyrics, and poems from her book Forgetting to Remember: A Healer’s Journey of Surviving and Thriving. She will share her process as a nontraditional writer and take questions from the audience. As an Ames author and entrepreneur, Deb […]
Join us for our Author Spotlight featuring Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author and Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University. She will read excerpts her latest book, When a Dream Dies...
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)
Join author, Tom Montgomery Fate for an introductory workshop that teaches craft strategies to mine your life stories. Points shared during this workshop are useful for other genres such as fiction and poetry...
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 Mondays are open to cancer patients and cancer survivors who have completed treatments and who are served by the John Stoddard Cancer Center. Each evening during this 8-week session, a safe space is created to write and respond to each other's writing. Stories and/or poems are inspired by writing prompts. Sharing stories with […]
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...
Writing Through Cancer with the Ames Writers Collective A safe space is created for attendees to write for timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompts inspire stories from our lives. After each timed-writing session, participants will have the opportunity to read their stories to the group, which is healing on many levels. Facilitator: Ana McCracken, […]
