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SUMMARY:Author Spotlight | Karen Bermann - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:LIVE and In Person at FIFTH STREET WRITERS\, 612 5th St.\, Ames\nThurs.\, Nov. 20\, 6:30 p.m. | Books for Sale & Author Signing \nA vividly illustrated family memoir told in two voices\, father and daughter\, The Art of Being a Stranger explores the impact of displacement and historical memory across generations. Karen Bermann is professor emerita of architecture at Iowa State University. She worked on sweat equity rehabilitation in her native New York and taught first-year design in Ames and fourth-year design in Rome\, where she now lives. \nOn Exhibit & Meet the Author/Artist:\nDrawings from The Art of Being a Stranger\nThurs.\, Nov. 20: 6:30 p.m.\nFri. Nov. 21: 10:30 a.m. – noon and 1 – 6:30 p.m.\nSat. Nov 22: 1:30 – 6:30 p.m. \nin partnership with KHOI Community Radio and Dog Eared Books
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/author-spotlight-karen-bermann-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open House - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for our Members Open Hours at Fifth Street Writers. Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nOpen this month from 8 – 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. There are a few exceptions\, please check our events calendar for specific dates! \nOur space is designed for writers by writers? It’s a quiet place to focus on your writing projects? We 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 this month is communications intern\, Acacia Coates.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-house-ames-writers-collective-2/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eco-Theatre Workshop - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join The EcoTheatre Lab and Ames Writers Collective for a community Climate Change Theatre Action workshop! \nThis event is located at Fifth Street Writers on Sat. Nov. 15 from 10am – noon. This event is FREE and open to the public. \nThe EcoTheatre Lab team will share readings of short climate change plays and introduce the international Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) initiative. Then participants will engage with performance and generative writing exercises as a way to connect with local climate change issues and solutions. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the initiative\, read and discuss some of the CCTA commissioned plays\, and then write and perform short CCTA plays themselves. This workshop is open to anyone who is interested\, but pay-what-you-can donations will be accepted at the door. Click here to RSVP.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/eco-theatre-workshop-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for our Members Open Hours at Fifth Street Writers. Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nOpen this month from 8 – 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. There are a few exceptions\, please check our events calendar for specific dates! \nOur space is designed for writers by writers? It’s a quiet place to focus on your writing projects? We 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 this month is communications intern\, Acacia Coates.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-hours-ames-writers-collective-3/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Write Together Tuesdays - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our hybrid Write Together Tuesdays on Zoom or in person at Fifth Street Writers. 3:30 to 5 p.m. CT \nWHAT’S A WRITE TOGETHER?\n\nWe join together on Zoom and in person at Fifth Street Writers\, share what we’re working on\, and write for ~90 minutes. At the end\, we share our successes\, and sign off. Easy peasy. \nVisit the website for more. https://ameswriterscollective.org/
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/write-together-tuesdays-ames-writes-collective/2025-11-11/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:This month\, join us for our Members Open Hours at Fifth Street Writers. Interested in becoming a member? Click here for more information! \nOpen today from 10 am. – noon. Check our events calendar for specific dates! \nOur space is designed for writers by writers? It’s a quiet place to focus on your writing projects? We 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 founder\, Ana McCracken.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-hours-ames-writers-collective-2/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Nicole Baart | The Publishing Journey - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Baart | The Publishing Journey | A Publishing Talk & Workshop \nAmes Writers Collective\, Fifth Street Writers | 612 5th St.\, Ames \nSat.\, Nov. 8 | 11 a.m. – noon | Nicole Baart\, The Publishing Journey free and open to the public \nSaturday\, November 8 | 1  – 3 p.m.:  Pitching Your Work Publishing practicum workshop & book-signing | Fee: $15 (students) to 25 \nTO REGISTER\, CLICK here. \nNicole Baart is the author of several novels\, including Where He Left Me and Everything We Didn’t Say. The cofounder of a nonprofit and mother of five\, she lives in Iowa with her family. Learn more at NicoleBaart.com. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment Pearl Holgrefe Visiting Writers Series.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/author-nicole-baart-the-publishing-journey-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Write Together at Fifth Street Writers - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Fifth Street Writers on the 1st Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Together we’ll write in community on our writing projects. \nWhat’s a Write Together? \n\n\nBring your laptop or whatever you write with to work on your creative writing projects—novels\, memoirs\, poems\, project outlines\, your to-do list for the coming year if need be\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—some tables are shared spaces\nWe’ll write in community for ~2 hours after sharing a brief comment about our creative project\nWe have wifi\nWe write\, write\, write in silence\nRULE: Cell phones MUST BE SILENCED\, as well as laptop “dings”\n\nEach month\, we’ll open our doors at 9:30 a.m. Grab a coffee or tea and mingle with fellow writers. There’s plenty of street parking (metered) with a CyRide stop in front of our building at 612 5th Street in downtown Ames\, IA. \nWhile the event is free and open to all\, we’re asking everyone to pre-register because space is limited. To register\, click here.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/first-saturday-write-together-at-fifth-street-writers-ames-writers-collective/2025-11-01/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours - Ames Writers Collective
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://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-hours-ames-writers-collective/2025-10-28/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Write Together Tuesdays - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our hybrid Write Together Tuesdays on Zoom or in person at Fifth Street Writers. 3:30 to 5 p.m. CT \nWHAT’S A WRITE TOGETHER?\n\nWe join together on Zoom and in person at Fifth Street Writers\, share what we’re working on\, and write for ~90 minutes. At the end\, we share our successes\, and sign off. Easy peasy. \nVisit the website for more. https://ameswriterscollective.org/
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/write-together-tuesdays-ames-writes-collective/2025-10-28/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Generative Writing Workshop for Adults - Ames Writers Collective &  Ames Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Do you dream of writing “someday\,” but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you already write\, but you’re stuck. \nJoin this FREE monthly writing workshop for adults\, which provides a safe space for writers of all stages and genres to generate stories inspired by prompts running the gamut from phrases\, poems\, photography\, guest authors and their prompts\, or a piece of artwork. We will read our stories to one another and share only positive feedback. \nThese workshops are inspired by the Amherst Writers & Artists Method\, which believes that everyone is a writer. \nThis workshop is held at the Ames Public Library from 10 to 12 PM upstairs in the PEO Room. \nPresented by the Iowa Center for the Book and Ames Public Library in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/a-generative-writing-workshop-for-adults-ames-writers-collective-ames-public-library/2025-10-25/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours - Ames Writers Collective
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://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-hours-ames-writers-collective/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:IPA’s Fall Poetry Workshop w/ Debra Marquart - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Register for IPA’s Fall Workshop\n\nJoin the Iowa Poetry Association (IPA) at Fifth Street Writers for camaraderie\, pizza and poetry! We will be gathering in-person October 18th\, Saturday in Ames at the Ames Writers Collective (612 5th St). Debra Marquart will be our critic. To register\, email your poem to ipa@iowapoetry.com by September 15\, 2025. Visit iowapoetry.org/workshops for further details.\n\nThis workshop is FREE to IPA members ($20 for non-members which will include a 1-year IPA membership).\n\nAbout Debra Marquart\nDebra is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University\, as well as the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart served as Iowa’s Poet Laureate and the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment.  The author of seven books—including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems—Marquart has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship\, a PEN USA Award\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation\, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award.  In 2021\, Marquart was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent books are The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging (2021) and a poetry collection\, Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars: New & Collected Poems (2023).  For more information: debramarquart.com
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/ipas-fall-poetry-workshop-w-debra-marquart-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Haibun with Katherine Larson - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ames Writers Collective/Fifth Street Writers 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: $15 (students) to $25. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment Pearl Holgrefe Visiting Writers Series.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/the-art-of-the-haibun-with-katherine-larson-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Write Together Tuesdays - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our hybrid Write Together Tuesdays on Zoom or in person at Fifth Street Writers. 3:30 to 5 p.m. CT \nWHAT’S A WRITE TOGETHER?\n\nWe join together on Zoom and in person at Fifth Street Writers\, share what we’re working on\, and write for ~90 minutes. At the end\, we share our successes\, and sign off. Easy peasy. \nVisit the website for more. https://ameswriterscollective.org/
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/write-together-tuesdays-ames-writes-collective/2025-10-14/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 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 p.m.. We’ll supply a pen and paper.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/2025-ames-artists-studio-tour-at-fifth-street-writers/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Spotlight with John T. Price - Ames Writers Collective & KHOI Community Radio
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ames Writers Collective & KHOI Community Radio Station for an evening with John T. Price—live at Fifth Street Writers on Thurs.\, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. \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://calendar.amesart.org/event/author-spotlight-with-john-t-price-ames-writers-collective-khoi-community-radio/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Member Open Hours - Ames Writers Collective
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://calendar.amesart.org/event/member-open-hours-ames-writers-collective/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Write Together at Fifth Street Writers - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Fifth Street Writers on the 1st Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Together we’ll write in community on our writing projects. \nWhat’s a Write Together? \n\n\nBring your laptop or whatever you write with to work on your creative writing projects—novels\, memoirs\, poems\, project outlines\, your to-do list for the coming year if need be\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—some tables are shared spaces\nWe’ll write in community for ~2 hours after sharing a brief comment about our creative project\nWe have wifi\nWe write\, write\, write in silence\nRULE: Cell phones MUST BE SILENCED\, as well as laptop “dings”\n\nEach month\, we’ll open our doors at 9:30 a.m. Grab a coffee or tea and mingle with fellow writers. There’s plenty of street parking (metered) with a CyRide stop in front of our building at 612 5th Street in downtown Ames\, IA. \nWhile the event is free and open to all\, we’re asking everyone to pre-register because space is limited. To register\, click here.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/first-saturday-write-together-at-fifth-street-writers-ames-writers-collective/2025-10-04/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Generative Writing Workshop - Ames Writers Collective
DESCRIPTION:Do you dream of writing “someday\,” but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you already write\, but you’re stuck. Let the Ames Writers Collective help. \nJoin this FREE monthly writing workshop for adults\, which provides a safe space for writers of all stages and genres to generate stories inspired by prompts. We write and then read our stories to one another. This month’s session will be led by Claire Kruesel\, an Ames Writers Collective board member. Claire is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. \nThis event will be held at the Ames Public Library upstairs in the PEO room. Click here for more information.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/a-generative-writing-workshop-ames-writers-collective/
LOCATION:Ames Writers Collective / Fifth Street Writers\, 612 5th St\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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