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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for Open Hours at the Ames Writers Collective. Open hours are available for members only! Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nLooking for a space designed for writers by writers? Or are you looking for a quiet area to focus on your most recent project? At Fifth Street Writers\, we aim to provide just that from 5:30pm – 7:30pm on Tuesdays in October. There are a few exceptions\, please check our events calendar for specific dates! \nWe have seating areas spread throughout the building at Fifth Street Writers that run the gamut from comfy club chairs to benches with tables\, to larger tables with chairs. Limited parking is available in front of the building\, with plenty of street parking. Our site host is communications intern\, Acacia Coates.
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/member-open-hours/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Ames Writer Collective Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th Street\, Ames\, Iowa\, 50014\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Spotlight with John T. Price
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ames Writers Collective & KHOI Community Radio Station for an evening with John T. Price—live at Fifth Street Writers on Thursday\, October 9th at 7 PM. \nThis free community event features a reading\, book signing\, and conversation with John T. Price\,  author of the novel\, Goethe’s Oak–A Holocaust Story. Hosted in partnership with KHOI Community Radio\, the evening celebrates literature\, community\, and creative storytelling. \nAbout John T. Price: He is is the author of four creative nonfiction books: Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands\, Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships\, Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father\, and All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations. He is the Regents/Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha\, where he directs the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Program\, and is a faculty member in the Goldstein Center for Human Rights. \nVisit KHOI to tune in!
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/6591/
LOCATION:Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th Street\, Ames\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Ames Artists' Studio Tour at Fifth Street Writers
DESCRIPTION:2025 Ames Artists’ Studio Tour at\nAmes Writers Collective Fifth Street Writers\n612 5th St\, ames\nWriting & Spoken Word\nSATURDAY ONLY \nDesigned to serve as a hub for writers\, Fifth Street Writers provides a quiet and inspiring environment for writing while also offering a range of programs\, classes\, and special events tailored for writers of all ages and experience levels. This new space furthers the Ames Writers Collective mission to create healthy communities through the art of writing\, while also supporting writers in the region. \nDuring the studio tour\, Fifth Street Writers will offer space and supplies for creatives to create poetry collage postcards and “Tumbling Words Wild Writing” sessions from 11 to Noon and 2 to 3 PM. We’ll supply a pen and paper.
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/2025-studio-tour-at-fifth-street-writers/
LOCATION:Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th Street\, Ames\, 50010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Haibun with Katherine Larson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the “Art of the Haibun” with poet\, Katherine Larson. \nKatherine Larson is the author of two collections of poetry—Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press\, 2011)\, selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets\, and The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press\, 2016)\, recipient of the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize (former recipients include Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Adam Zagajewski). Her forthcoming book\, Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, is a collection of lyric essays. Larson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals including AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Blackbird\, Boulevard\, Crab Orchard Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Notre Dame Review\, Orion\, Poetry\, and Poetry Northwest and anthologized in Read America(s): An Anthology\, Prentice Hall’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing\, and Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets. \nShe is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize\, and the Foreword Indies Gold Medal in Poetry. She has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is currently active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California. \nTO REGISTER\, click here! Cost: $25 adults.\nAre you a Student? Choose “Student Ticket” & Enter “FREE” UNDER DISCOUNT CODE. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment Pearl Holgrefe Visiting Writers Series.
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for Open Hours at the Ames Writers Collective. Open hours are available for members only! Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nLooking for a space designed for writers by writers? Or are you looking for a quiet area to focus on your most recent project? At Fifth Street Writers\, we aim to provide just that from 5:30pm – 7:30pm on Tuesdays in October. There are a few exceptions\, please check our events calendar for specific dates! \nWe have seating areas spread throughout the building at Fifth Street Writers that run the gamut from comfy club chairs to benches with tables\, to larger tables with chairs. Limited parking is available in front of the building\, with plenty of street parking. Our site host is communications intern\, Acacia Coates.
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/member-open-hours/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Ames Writer Collective Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th Street\, Ames\, Iowa\, 50014\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for Open Hours at the Ames Writers Collective. Open hours are available for members only! Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nLooking for a space designed for writers by writers? Or are you looking for a quiet area to focus on your most recent project? At Fifth Street Writers\, we aim to provide just that from 5:30pm – 7:30pm on Tuesdays in October. There are a few exceptions\, please check our events calendar for specific dates! \nWe have seating areas spread throughout the building at Fifth Street Writers that run the gamut from comfy club chairs to benches with tables\, to larger tables with chairs. Limited parking is available in front of the building\, with plenty of street parking. Our site host is communications intern\, Acacia Coates.
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/member-open-hours/2025-10-28/
LOCATION:Ames Writer Collective Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th Street\, Ames\, Iowa\, 50014\, United States
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