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Author Spotlight: Gary Eller – Ames Writers Collective

Author Spotlight: Gary Eller – Ames Writers Collective

by director@amesart.org | Oct 26, 2023

Join the Ames Writers Collective and KHOI Community Radio for an Author Spotlight featuring Gary Eller, author of True North. Eller’s previous collection of short fiction, THIN ICE AND OTHER RISKS (New Rivers Press) was well-received and described by one reviewer as...
Celebrating Willa Cather 150 – Ames Writers Collective

Celebrating Willa Cather 150 – Ames Writers Collective

by director@amesart.org | Oct 26, 2023

Produced in association with the National Willa Cather Center, the Ames Writers Collective and the Ames Public Library will host a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most significant and treasured American writers of the 20th century. Cather...
Author Spotlight: Dr. Douglas Gentile – Ames Writers Collective

Author Spotlight: Dr. Douglas Gentile – Ames Writers Collective

by director@amesart.org | Oct 26, 2023

Join us for an Author Spotlight featuring Dr. Douglas Gentile, author and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University. A Zen Buddhist monk and meditation teacher, he wrote and narrated the best-selling audiobook Buddhism 101: How to Walk Easily over...
Writing That Scary Thing—A Women’s Writing Retreat – Ames Writers Collective

Writing That Scary Thing—A Women’s Writing Retreat – Ames Writers Collective

by director@amesart.org | Oct 10, 2023

Writing That Scary Thing—A Women’s Writing Retreat at Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa 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...