Ames Writers CollectiveWords 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.
Writing Circle Tuesdays are open to cancer patients and cancer survivors who have completed treatments. Each evening we create a safe space, and then write together for timed intervals to writing prompts. Writing prompts inspire stories from our lives.
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.
Writing in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Writing in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Writing in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Writing in community creates synergy, and open writes provide structure for deadlines. Sessions are via Zoom, and are free to attend.
Writing 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...
