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The Adirondack Center for Writing
"Creating
A Sense Of Place Through Literature"
The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) is an organization that supports Adirondack-based writers and promotes the literary arts in the Adirondacks. We host numerous workshops, conferences, readings, and other programs to help keep writing alive in northern New York State. The Adirondack Center for Writing also gives writers the opportunity to share their work, and review grant and publishing information. Our site helps unify the widespread writing community. Please, take a look around!
Check Out ACW's Exciting Spring Program Line-Up! Once again ACW is offering an incredible array of outstanding literary events this spring. These programs are being held throughout the Adirondacks and explore a wide variety of topics, themes, and literary styles. These are all unique and exceptional opportunities don’t let them pass you by. For more information on any of these, please contact our office at 518-327-6278 or email us at acwevents@gmail.com. Click HERE to read all the details. Writing Contest Deadline Extended!1.NCPR & ACW Contest ACW, in partnership with North Country Public Radio, sponsors the biennial Writing Contest for young and adult writers. This year's deadline has been extended to April 11, 2008. Both Young Writers & Adult categories. First prize is $300! Click HERE to read the details.
ACW receives a grant to establish an endowment! ACW received a $10,000 gift from an anonymous donor to establish an endowment. This gift, which is administered through the Adirondack Community Trust, came just as ACW was poised to begin expanding its offerings over the next several years. ACW’s new plan will keep its current programs, but begin making more of them available in more areas all year. Eventually the organization will hire an assistant director, and establish residencies throughout the park. Those writers-in-residence, cultivated within the park and chosen from outside it, will offer lectures and readings in surrounding communities, and teach workshops. This generous gift brings ACW to a new level of financial stability. ACW’s board of directors has set the goal of doubling the initial grant to reach $20,000 by the end of the fiscal year, and doubling that amount again by 2010. AND THE CONTESTANTS ARE ... The submissions are in for the 2008 Adirondack Literary Awards. Below are all the entries. What an impressive list! Good luck to all of you, and don't forget, ACW members get to vote for their People's Choice Award for best overall book regardless of genre. Contact ACW anytime to place your vote! FictionAdirondack Detective; A New Beginning
John Briant
Chalet Publishing The Power of the Dark Goddess and Other Stories
George Bryjak
Myopic Moose Press Wing Walking
Harry Groome
The Connelly Press Death of a Dutch Uncle
M E Kemp
Hilliard Harris Press An Almost Life
Kevin Mednick
The Permanent Press Once Upon A Time to Die For Rosemary Miner
Hilliard Harris Press Within A Dark Forest; An Adirondack Tale of Love and Suspicion
Michael Virtanen
Lost Pond Press Poetry
No Longer Any Place But Here
Stephanie Coyne DeGhett
Finishing Line Press Story Quilt; Poems of a Place
By The People Who Live in Galway, NY
Galway Public Library The Wild Twist of Their Stems
Carol Graser
Foothills Publishing Wet Apples, White Blood
Naomi Guttman
McGill-Queen’s University Press Night Blooming Cereus
Kathleen McCoy
Adirondack Femsoul Press Half/Mask
Roger Mitchell
The University of Akron Press War Psalm
Mimi Moriarty
Finishing Line Press The Origin of the Milky Way
Barbara Louise Ungar
Gival Press Children’s Literature
Bear Walker
Joseph Bruchac
HarperCollins Against the Tide; The Valor of Margaret Wilson
Hope Irvin Marston
P&R Publishing My Little Book Of Manatees
Hope Irvin Marston
Windward Publishing Spitfire
Kate Messner
North Country Books Summer at the Cabin
Johanna Lonsdorf Roberts
Shaggy Dog Press Extreme Sports: Ride the Giant Waves with Garrett McNamara
Carol Parenzan Smalley
Mitchell Lane Publishers The Adirondack Kids #7: Mystery of the Missing Moose
Justin and Gary VanRiper
Adirondack Kids Press Nonfiction-Memoir
At the End of the Road: Reflections on Life in an Adirondack Valley
Ruth Mary Lamb
Pyramid Publishing Actively Adirondack; Reflections on Mountain Life in the 21st Century
Randy Lewis
Hungry Bear Publishing My Brother’s Madness
Paul Pines
Curbstone Press The Dust of Man
Luke Webster
Lulu.com Nonfiction
A Miracle Comes to Vermont
Mark L. Barie
Crossborder Publishing Adirondack Alpine Summits: An Ecological Field Guide
Nancy Slack & Allison Bell
Adirondack Mountain Club Adirondack Forest: Owner’s Manual
Steven Bick
Forest Enterprise Institute New York State’s Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic Volume 4
Andy Flynn
Hungry Bear Publishing Oliver’s War: An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune
Lawrence P. Gooley
Bloated Toe Publishing The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake Placid
Mary MacKenzie Edited by Lee Manchester
Nicholas K. Burns Publishing Adirondack Stories: Historical Sketches
Marty Podskoch, Sam Glanzman
Podskoch Press Nature through the Seasons
Nancy Wotton Scarzello
Nancy Wotton Scarzello Life in the Adirondacks
Ruth Timm
Pyramid Publishing History Between the Lines: Women’s Lives and Saranac Lake Customs
Caperton Tissot
Graphics North Pardon Me, Sir…There’s a Moose in Your Tent: More Stories from the Life and Times of a Wilderness Park Ranger in the Adirondack Mountains
Larry Weil
North Country Books AND THE WINNERS ARE ... The Winners of the 2nd Annual Adirondack Literary Awards for Books Published in 2006 are: BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK
Adirondack Mouse and the Perilous Journey by Irene Uttendorfsky
Judges: Danielle Hoepfl and Nancy Beattie BEST FICTION BOOK
Lucy’s Eggs by Rick Henry
Judges: Ellen Rocco and Joe Bruchac BEST POETRY BOOK
Glacial Erratica: Three Poets on the Adirondacks, Part 2 by Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe, Mary Sanders Shartle
Judges: Maurice Kenny and Paul Pines BEST MEMOIR
Schroon Lake by Lueza Thirkield Gelb
Judges: Bibi Wein and Jerry McGovern BEST NONFICTION BOOK & PEOPLE's CHOICE AWARD
Welcome to the Homeland by Brian Mann
Judges: Bibi Wein and Jerry McGovern BEST EDITED COLLECTION (TIE)
Oswegatchie: A North Country River by Christopher Angus
No Place I’d Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-To Journals by Stuart Mesinger
Judges: Bibi Wein and Jerry McGovern BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK
Adirondack Waters: Spirit of the Mountains by Mark Bowie Judges: Nancie Battaglia and John Radigan Congratulations to all. As noted during the awards ceremony at the Blue Mountain Center on June 10, 2007, there were so many great books entered this year. The full list of entries is included below--just a slice of our thriving Adirondack literary community. Books Published in 2006 and Entered in the 2nd Annual Adirondack Literary AWards: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Apple Valley Alli by Janice D. Stanley
Hello, Molly! by Janice D. Stanley
WINNERAdirondack Mouse and the Perilous Journey by Irene Uttendorfsky
What’s So Great About …? Henry Hudson by Carol Parenzan Smalley
The Adirondack Kids #6—Secret of the Skeleton Key by Justin and Gary VanRiper FICTION Time by Patrick O’Brien
The Camp by Patrick O’Brien
Lenny’s Pals by Patrick O’Brien
More Pals by Patrick O’Brien
WINNER Lucy’s Eggs by Rick Henry
Adirondack Green by John Slade POETRY A North Country Quartet by Alice Wolf Gilborn, Linda Batt, Lorraine Wilson, Randy Lewis
The Separation of Kin by Roselyn Elliott
Song for the Adirondacks … poems from home by Nadine McLaughlin
Collected Poems of Carl Berk by Carl Berk
WINNER Glacial Erratica: Three Poets on the Adirondacks, Part 2 by Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe, Mary Sanders Shartle
Retrieving the Spirit by Kathleen M. Curry Memoir Delusions of Grandeur by Matthew D. Ryan
Memories of Inlet by Letty Kirch Haynes
WINNER Schroon Lake by Lueza Thirkield Gelb NONFICTION No Place I’d Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-To Journals by Stuart Mesinger
Big Moose Community Chapel, 1981-2006: History and Remembrances of Worship in an Adirondack Chapel edited by Richard C. Williams
New York State’s Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic Vol. 3 by Andy Flynn
Image of America by Donald R. Williams
Welcome to the Homeland by Brian Mann
Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks edited by Phil Brown
Why the Adirondacks Look the Way They Do by Mike Storey
Oswegatchie: A North Country River by Christopher Angus
Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist by Edward Kanze
Seeing God in Nature by Judyann Grant, Roxanne Ferguson, JuleAnn Lattimer, Cheryl Ann Potts
Whit and Orpha: They Danced All Night by Ramon D. Hansen
Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County by Pete Klein
A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks by Hallie E. Bond, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Leslie Paris
Logging Railroads in the Adirondacks by Bill Gove
Crandall Voices: Retelling the Past by Crandall Public Library Memory Sharing Group PHOTOGRAPHY Adirondack Waters: Spirit of the Mountains by Mark Bowie
The Adirondacks by Carl Heilman II New Books by Adirondack Authors
We're proud of our members' accomplishments. Check out the newest publications on the news page The 2006 Writing Contest Winners
Click here to see who won and to read the winning manuscripts. First Annual Adirondack Literary Award Winners
The Winners of the 1st Annual Adirondack Literary Awards (for books published in 2004-2005) were:
For Poetry: Notes from the Fire Tower: Three Poets on the Adirondacks by Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe, and Mary Sanders Shartle
Judges were Stephanie Coyne DeGhett and William Patrick For Children's Books: Adirondack Kids: Islands in the Sky by Justin and Gary Van Riper
Judges were Nancy Beattie and Danielle Hoepfl For Photography: All in a Day's Work: Scenes and Stories from and Adirondack Medical Practice by Daniel Way, M.D.
Judges were Nancie Battaglia and Lisa Richmond For Fiction: The Darling by Russell Banks
Judges were Bob Miner and Ellen Rocco For Nonfiction: Grisha by Margaret Bartley
Judges were Chris Angus and Gerry McGovern And the People's Choice Award for Best Book: Florida by Mason Smith A Lifetime Achievement Award for Barbara McMartin was also announced.
ACW is based at Paul Smith's College and supported by the New York State Council on the Arts
This site was created through Professor Christine Lapham's Writing for Print and Digital Media class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Adirondack Center for
Writing
Paul Smith's College, PO Box 265
Paul Smiths, New York 12970
Phone: 518-327-6278
Fax: 518-327-6161
Email: acw@paulsmiths.edu
Paul Smith's College, PO Box 265
Paul Smiths, New York 12970
Phone: 518-327-6278
Fax: 518-327-6161
Email: acw@paulsmiths.edu
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