Our minds are full of ordinary and extraordinary events. Join poet and contemplative arts teacher Ellen White Rook for a morning of sitting meditation, walking meditation (and perhaps a little gentle stretching or yoga,) and writing sessions. Optional writing prompts will be offered. Suitable for new and experienced writers. Meditation instruction will be provided.

Join Stephentown Art Guild co-founder and professional author Robin Catalano for Just Do It: A Creative Writing Workshop, where we’ll focus on experimenting with writing prompts. We’ll complete a series of short exercises aimed at letting the creative mind wander and tamping down the inner critic. Work can be shared—or not!—and all exercises will be […]

Don’t you deserve at least one day to write?Write 4 a Day is a series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. There is: no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi! Unplug. Write. Don’t write. Think. Daydream. Doodle. Outline. Come for the whole day or just for part […]

Writers in the Mountains (WIM) presents The Amherst Method, a generative writing workshop with poet Sharon Israel, the last Friday of the month from 3 to 5 pm at Roxbury Library, 53742 State Hwy 30, Roxbury, NY. The next session will be held on April 26. Advance registration is recommended. Bring a notebook and pen.Never written before?  […]

From Julia Alvarez to William Wordsworth, poets have often evoked a sense of place in their work. A poem of place may be about your present home in this present time, or it may look to the past or the future. It may be set where you once lived, somewhere you’ve visited, or anywhere you […]

Sometimes the muse is just waiting for you to write, and sometimes there’s a blank computer screen or notepad staring back at you. That’s where writing prompts can help. At the next meeting of the Upper Hudson Chapter of Sisters in Crime, held at the East Greenbush Community Library and online, author and instructor Ellen […]