https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-may-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-april-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/writing-craft-book-club-writing-down-the-bones monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/cd479a17-2787-4d5b-bd15-e4b477e88863/FB+event+banner+May+2026.jpg Programs & Events - Writing Craft BOOK CLUB Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-nov-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a0fe9059-8451-4242-8e17-b236cbdc5ccc/EKF+and+MM+and+MMPL.png Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/lanark-lit-awards-gala-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/572aea19-4e1e-4f53-8ab8-bae9f51dc826/awards+headers.png Programs & Events - LANARK LIT Writing Competition - Awards Gala & Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/769b87a1-9577-4e4c-915a-0362713b3d1a/LLWC-sponsor-logos2.png Programs & Events - LANARK LIT Writing Competition - Awards Gala & Reading https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-oct-12-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for October (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-oct-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a0fe9059-8451-4242-8e17-b236cbdc5ccc/EKF+and+MM+and+MMPL.png Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/writing-craft-book-club-thehappywriter monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8200b8c6-03e4-4e27-979f-5650d7ceeb07/FB+event+banner+Nov+2025.png Programs & Events - Writing Craft BOOK CLUB: The Happy Writer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/perth-writers-festival-hosted-by-the-perth-farmers-market monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/da65d9a8-b02d-48d8-8bbc-f26b628b4cd5/538939644_10172205730470461_4611649997546209850_n.jpg Programs & Events - Perth Writers Festival - Perth Writers Festival hosted by The Perth Farmers Market! Saturday, September 6 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon All are welcome! Come down to the Perth Farmers Market and meet local authors and hear about their writing journey. Books available to purchase. 12 local authors will be on site inside and outside the Crystal Palace on the Tay Basin. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson-wxj44-7c5y5-m3xsc-lktff-zbn63 monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson-wxj44-7c5y5-m3xsc-lktff monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson-wxj44-7c5y5-m3xsc monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson-wxj44-7c5y5 monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson-wxj44 monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/for-the-love-of-lists-with-jessie-carson monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcee4dbd-277f-4cb6-b05c-2ec9f27568bd/8.5x11-SEPT-JCarson-2025-6wk.jpg Programs & Events - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson - 6-week Creative Writing Workshop - For the Love of Lists with Jessie Carson September 18, 25, October, 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Almonte Town Hall - 14 Bridge Street, Almonte Cost: $240 To learn more visit www.jessiecarson.com/workshops To register, email jesscarson@gmail.com. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-retreat-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9f0dd5b1-e17d-4a5d-8386-a23d40be0faf/Writing+Retreat+Ticket.jpg Programs & Events - 2nd Annual AWG Writing Retreat - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/lanark-lit-writing-competition-deadline monthly 0.5 2025-08-24 https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-prompted-poetry-july-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a8a31cc8-68d2-42e9-98bf-e2d6d6c19e96/474675146_10170609561215461_8067140578857369938_n.jpg Programs & Events - Poetry in the Park (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-prompted-poetry-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a8a31cc8-68d2-42e9-98bf-e2d6d6c19e96/474675146_10170609561215461_8067140578857369938_n.jpg Programs & Events - Poetry in the Park (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-prompted-poetry-june-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a8a31cc8-68d2-42e9-98bf-e2d6d6c19e96/474675146_10170609561215461_8067140578857369938_n.jpg Programs & Events - Poetry in the Park (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-aug-17-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Outdoor Write-in for August (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-july-6-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Outdoor Write-in for July (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-aug-31-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for August (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-aug-3-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for August (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-july-20-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for July (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-june-22-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for June (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-june-8-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for June (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/youth-non-fiction-workshop-2025-2 monthly 0.5 2025-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e410201f-cef0-46e6-a37e-a29f5cb387ed/TELLING+IT.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers - a free 2-part workshop for young writers aged 12-18 years old Led by Krista Foss WEDNESDAY June 4 & THURSDAY June 12, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. each week PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED sign up below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d6535d1e-958a-469f-a348-92f122276fdf/Krista+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers - Krista Foss is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her short fiction has appeared in several literary journals including Granta and has twice been a finalist for the Journey Prize. Her essay writing has been featured in Best Canadian Essays, nominated for a National Magazine Award, and received a Prism International Creative Non-Fiction prize. She has published two novels, Smoke River (2014) and Half Life(2021), both with McClelland & Stewart. She’s at work on a third novel, essays and journalism in Westport, Ontario. More on Krista can be found at www.kristafoss.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/88b4ce34-075e-4e11-ab3e-24c7e9b71086/EKF_MM_YAK_PDPLbiggerspace.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/online-non-fiction-workshop-2 monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e85deb28-a4cf-48be-a5de-97fef1765634/Truth+Matters+Lanark+Lit+online+workshop.png Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing - a 2-part online workshop Led by Parrish Wilson WEDNESDAYS June 18 & 25, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. each week PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Pay-what-you-can registration via TICKETS PLEASE CLICK HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d9d1b100-b4ac-473b-b9fd-3b72c24f9a18/Parrish+Wilson+headshot.png Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing - Parrish Wilson is a Writing Therapist, and experienced Facilitator who has been leading therapeutic and transformative writing workshops since 2013. With a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing and a Master’s in Counselling & Spirituality, Parrish weaves together the power of personal storytelling and emotional healing to create workshops that are both creatively enriching and deeply supportive. Her personal writing explores the full spectrum of lived experience - mental health, motherhood, feminism, self-compassion, dating, and modern womanhood - with honesty, warmth, and courage. Parrish’s work has been published in You Are Not Alone: An Anthology of Perinatal Mental Health Stories from Conception to Post-Partum (Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative, 2021), and More Than a Zero (Women Who Inspire, 2017), while her master’s thesis, Rewriting the Trauma Narrative: The Effectiveness of Autobiographical Writing in the Treatment of PTSD and Complex Trauma (St. Paul University, Ottawa, 2022), reflects her deep commitment to the intersection of writing and healing. Her research identified five powerful ways autobiographical writing supports mental health: breaking the silence, controlling the narrative, being witnessed, connecting with others, and experiencing cathartic release. She is currently writing a book about therapeutic writing, further exploring how personal narrative can be a powerful tool for self-understanding, empowerment, and healing. Whether you’re writing for personal growth, publication, or social impact, Parrish’s workshops offer an inspiring space to strengthen your voice and connect with your purpose. More on Parrish is available at parrishwilson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ade8d847-a622-4fa0-9955-15a7f235aa8b/EKF+and+MM.jpg Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/online-non-fiction-workshop monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e85deb28-a4cf-48be-a5de-97fef1765634/Truth+Matters+Lanark+Lit+online+workshop.png Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing - a 2-part online workshop Led by Parrish Wilson WEDNESDAYS June 18 & 25, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. each week PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Pay-what-you-can registration via TICKETS PLEASE CLICK HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d9d1b100-b4ac-473b-b9fd-3b72c24f9a18/Parrish+Wilson+headshot.png Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing - Parrish Wilson is a Writing Therapist, and experienced Facilitator who has been leading therapeutic and transformative writing workshops since 2013. With a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing and a Master’s in Counselling & Spirituality, Parrish weaves together the power of personal storytelling and emotional healing to create workshops that are both creatively enriching and deeply supportive. Her personal writing explores the full spectrum of lived experience - mental health, motherhood, feminism, self-compassion, dating, and modern womanhood - with honesty, warmth, and courage. Parrish’s work has been published in You Are Not Alone: An Anthology of Perinatal Mental Health Stories from Conception to Post-Partum (Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative, 2021), and More Than a Zero (Women Who Inspire, 2017), while her master’s thesis, Rewriting the Trauma Narrative: The Effectiveness of Autobiographical Writing in the Treatment of PTSD and Complex Trauma (St. Paul University, Ottawa, 2022), reflects her deep commitment to the intersection of writing and healing. Her research identified five powerful ways autobiographical writing supports mental health: breaking the silence, controlling the narrative, being witnessed, connecting with others, and experiencing cathartic release. She is currently writing a book about therapeutic writing, further exploring how personal narrative can be a powerful tool for self-understanding, empowerment, and healing. Whether you’re writing for personal growth, publication, or social impact, Parrish’s workshops offer an inspiring space to strengthen your voice and connect with your purpose. More on Parrish is available at parrishwilson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ade8d847-a622-4fa0-9955-15a7f235aa8b/EKF+and+MM.jpg Programs & Events - Truth Matters: The WHY and HOW of Non-Fiction Writing https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-may-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for May (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-prompted-poetry-may-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a8a31cc8-68d2-42e9-98bf-e2d6d6c19e96/474675146_10170609561215461_8067140578857369938_n.jpg Programs & Events - Prompted Poetry Circle (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/youth-non-fiction-workshop-2025-1 monthly 0.5 2025-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e410201f-cef0-46e6-a37e-a29f5cb387ed/TELLING+IT.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers - a free 2-part workshop for young writers aged 12-18 years old Led by Krista Foss WEDNESDAY June 4 & THURSDAY June 12, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. each week PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED sign up below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d6535d1e-958a-469f-a348-92f122276fdf/Krista+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers - Krista Foss is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her short fiction has appeared in several literary journals including Granta and has twice been a finalist for the Journey Prize. Her essay writing has been featured in Best Canadian Essays, nominated for a National Magazine Award, and received a Prism International Creative Non-Fiction prize. She has published two novels, Smoke River (2014) and Half Life(2021), both with McClelland & Stewart. She’s at work on a third novel, essays and journalism in Westport, Ontario. More on Krista can be found at www.kristafoss.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/88b4ce34-075e-4e11-ab3e-24c7e9b71086/EKF_MM_YAK_PDPLbiggerspace.png Programs & Events - Telling it Like It Is: Non-Fiction for Young Writers https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-amanda-and-tim monthly 0.5 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8e884b2f-6e78-42d6-87f2-8bec0ac69cf7/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a527f9db-8372-44d9-a5dd-f5066d9a7921/Amanda+and+Tim+tighter+headshots.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/96cc16fd-d184-4f85-9a3f-d9f758d5fc87/Amanda+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Amanda West Lewis is a writer, theatre artist, and calligrapher. She is the author of ten books, most recently including the poetry collection A Planet is a Poem, and the semi-autobiographical novels Focus Click Wind, and These Are Not the Words. Her books have been recognized with a wide range of awards and nominations including: EUREKA! 2024 Excellence in Children’s Non-Fiction Award; California Reading Association Honor Book; NCTE Notable Poetry Book; Cybils Award nominee 2024; 2024 School Library Journal Best Poetry Books; 2024 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Adults; 2022 American League of Poets recommended novel in verse; Silver Birch Award; Red Cedar Award; and Violet Downey IODE Award. Amanda has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has acted, directed, produced, and written for theatre, as well as founded the Ottawa Children’s Theatre. She teaches writing, drama, and calligraphy to young people and adults, often combining these disciplines together. www.amandawestlewis.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f4751c6f-8365-41c3-a028-97bd8f5d2181/Tim+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Tim Wynne-Jones has written three adult, three middle-grade and nine young adult novels, four short story collections and a whole lot of picture books. His collection of short stories Some of the Kinder Planets won the Governor General's Award as well as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. The Maestro won Tim his second Governor General's Award and was short-listed for the Guardian Prize in the UK. The Boy in the Burning House won the Edgar Award and the Arthur Ellis Award and was short-listed for the Guardian Prize, as well. Blink & Caution won another “Arthur” as well as Tim’s second Horn Book Award. The Emperor of Any Place, received seven starred book reviews and was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. And The Starlight Claim won the John Spray Award of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. His work has been published in Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Hebrew. Tim was named as the Canadian representative for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award of the International Board on Books for Young People. On September 28th, of that same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/5876e6f1-a31d-4c1c-aae8-4317ab33a3dd/banner+WUOFCANADA.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amanda West Lewis & Tim Wynne-Jones - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-amelinda-and-elysia monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8e884b2f-6e78-42d6-87f2-8bec0ac69cf7/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amelinda Bérubé, interviewed by Elysia Rourke - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/5f0f1caf-2481-4a78-b782-d06c9bddc280/Amelinda+and+Elysia+tighter+headshots.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amelinda Bérubé, interviewed by Elysia Rourke - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8b562036-4a50-4c17-b5b2-adc02ccc6f55/Amelinda+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amelinda Bérubé, interviewed by Elysia Rourke - Amelinda Bérubé writes books for young adults about things that go bump in the night. She is the author of The Ones Who Come Back Hungry, Bram Stoker Award finalist Here There Are Monsters, and The Dark Beneath the Ice. Local readers might find her settings familiar, since they're all drawn from the Ottawa area--including the swampy woods near Corkery where she spent her teen years. After a dozen years as a writer and editor in the federal public service, Amelinda is living the freelance dream, incubating side projects like reading tarot, developmental editing, and coaching young writers. She herds a couple of kids and an assortment of animals in west-end Ottawa, where she lives in a perpetual whirlwind of unfinished craft projects, cat hair, and dog toys. Visit her at www.metuiteme.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/82a2431d-2b26-4f87-800a-ba8f742fbc77/Elysia+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amelinda Bérubé, interviewed by Elysia Rourke - Elysia Rourke is a middle grade author and stay-at-home mom. Her debut novel, Whale Fall, is slated for publication with Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books in 2026. Elysia is the founder of the Almonte Writers Guild and fiction editor for The LAM, a literary arts magazine for Lanark County. She lives in Almonte, Ontario with her husband, two sons, and dog. Her writing can be found at www.elysiarourke.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Amelinda Bérubé, interviewed by Elysia Rourke - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-writing-for-theatre-rob-reindeau-wk3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Writing for Theatre a 4-week course led by Rob Riendeau TUESDAYS - June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $100.00 per registration Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4f5ea364-c4de-4e75-9390-8a753f0044d7/Rob+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Rob Riendeau has been involved with theatre (both on stage and off) since the early 1980s. In 2019, he formed “Humm Team Productions” with his partner Kris Riendeau, and together they wrote and directed their first full-length musical comedy, Who Stole Christmas from Mississippi Mills? In 2020, he turned his attention to shortform comedies and has since written and produced several short plays and sketches. In 2024, his original musical The Wizard is… Odd!? had its premiere at the Almonte Old Town Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-writing-for-theatre-rob-reindeau-wk4 monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Writing for Theatre a 4-week course led by Rob Riendeau TUESDAYS - June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $100.00 per registration Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4f5ea364-c4de-4e75-9390-8a753f0044d7/Rob+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Rob Riendeau has been involved with theatre (both on stage and off) since the early 1980s. In 2019, he formed “Humm Team Productions” with his partner Kris Riendeau, and together they wrote and directed their first full-length musical comedy, Who Stole Christmas from Mississippi Mills? In 2020, he turned his attention to shortform comedies and has since written and produced several short plays and sketches. In 2024, his original musical The Wizard is… Odd!? had its premiere at the Almonte Old Town Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-writing-for-theatre-rob-reindeau-wk2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Writing for Theatre a 4-week course led by Rob Riendeau TUESDAYS - June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $100.00 per registration Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4f5ea364-c4de-4e75-9390-8a753f0044d7/Rob+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Rob Riendeau has been involved with theatre (both on stage and off) since the early 1980s. In 2019, he formed “Humm Team Productions” with his partner Kris Riendeau, and together they wrote and directed their first full-length musical comedy, Who Stole Christmas from Mississippi Mills? In 2020, he turned his attention to shortform comedies and has since written and produced several short plays and sketches. In 2024, his original musical The Wizard is… Odd!? had its premiere at the Almonte Old Town Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-writing-for-theatre-rob-reindeau monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Writing for Theatre a 4-week course led by Rob Riendeau TUESDAYS - June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $100.00 per registration Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4f5ea364-c4de-4e75-9390-8a753f0044d7/Rob+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Rob Riendeau has been involved with theatre (both on stage and off) since the early 1980s. In 2019, he formed “Humm Team Productions” with his partner Kris Riendeau, and together they wrote and directed their first full-length musical comedy, Who Stole Christmas from Mississippi Mills? In 2020, he turned his attention to shortform comedies and has since written and produced several short plays and sketches. In 2024, his original musical The Wizard is… Odd!? had its premiere at the Almonte Old Town Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - From Page to Stage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/workshop-wayne-grady-stories-of-our-lives monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Telling the Stories of Our Lives - Telling the Stories of Our Lives A workshop with Wayne Grady Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $30.00 per registration Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/193967de-ab86-4802-a599-4926e65128fc/Wayne+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Telling the Stories of Our Lives - Wayne Grady is the author of 16 books of nonfiction and three novels, and has edited four anthologies of short fiction and eight collections of nonfiction. For 11 years he taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Creative Nonfiction, and he has also conducted creative writing workshops at Sage Hill and Kingston WritersFest, as well as while writer-in-residence at Campbell River, BC, and Whitehorse, Yukon Territories. His novel Emancipation Day won the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and he is the recipient of four Science-in-Society Awards, an Outdoor Book Award, and a Governor General’s Award for Literary Translation. His essays and stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, as well as twice in the annual Best Canadian Essays. Wayne lives in Kingston, Ontario, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with his wife, Merilyn Simonds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Telling the Stories of Our Lives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/workshop-merilyn-simonds-outside-the-cage monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Writing Outside the Cage - Writing Outside the Cage A workshop with Merilyn Simonds Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $30.00 per registration Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4e6c2191-445d-4986-82b9-a45b1d405288/Merilyn+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Writing Outside the Cage - Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 22 books, including the novel The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the Canadian classic nonfiction novel, The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Among her best-selling nonfiction is A New Leaf, the story of her gardens north of Kingston, and Gutenberg’s Fingerprint, a meditation on reading, writing, and the future of the printed book. Her most recent work—Woman, Watching, the Foreword Indies Editor’s Choice Nonfiction Award for 2022—is an innovative memoir/biography of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, an extraordinary recluse who changed the way we see birds. Simonds's memoir, Walking with Beth: Conversations with my 100-Year-Old Friend is forthcoming from Random House Canada in September, 2025. Simonds was adjunct professor in the MFA Creative Writing department at UBC, Kwantlen University in Vancouver, and University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. She has taught creative writing workshops at the Banff Centre, Sage Hill Writing Experience, and dozens of literary festivals in Canada and Mexico. She has been writer-in-residence in several communities and continues to mentor emerging writers working in both fiction and creative nonfiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Writing Outside the Cage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/workshop-with-laura-piggott monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Leaving Room for the Illustrator in Picture Book Writing - Leaving Room for the Illustrator Picture Book Writing with Laura Piggott Pre-registration required via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Early bird rate (until May 17) $30.00 per registration Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/cb3fb6d3-0bf3-4479-ab59-8a515baf6a97/Laura+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Leaving Room for the Illustrator in Picture Book Writing - Laura Piggott is an author/illustrator who loves colour, wonder, whimsy, and magic. Her art and writing both embody a sense of humour and play. She believes that all children should see themselves in the stories that surround them. When she’s not drawing, painting, or writing, Laura spends her time knitting and sewing; playing the piano, violin, and cello; reading books and magazines; and drinking copious amounts of coffee. When the coffee runs dry (or it’s past 3:00 pm), you might find her dreaming by the fire with a quilt and a cup of hot cocoa or a glass of bubbly wine. Laura also loves to eat, cook, and bake gluten-free food and would never turn down a dinner invitation from Phil Rosenthal or Bobby Flay. Laura has an Honours BA in Trilingual Translation and a Bachelor of Education, both from the University of Ottawa. She also has a post-graduate certificate in Stylistic Editing from Queen’s University. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Italian. Although she is smitten with travel, she is the epitome of a homebody. Laura lives with her husband, two teenage children, and menagerie of pets in Carleton Place, Ontario. Laura is represented by Joyce Sweeney and Elisa Houot at the Seymour Agency. More on Laura can be found by visiting www.laurapiggott.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Leaving Room for the Illustrator in Picture Book Writing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-oral-storytelling-wk4 monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Introduction to Oral Storytelling a 4-week course led by Jennifer Cayley TUESDAYS - May 13, 20, 27, & June 3, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekly Pre-registration via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ed37f613-c25c-4c8b-a389-2b64ed6c9e91/Jennifer+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories for more than four decades. Her repertoire includes traditional, epic, literary, historical and personal material. Performance highlights include: collaborating with Jan Andrews on touring The Book of Spells: A Love Story to Rome, Australia, Wales, USA and southern Ontario; appearing at festivals across Canada and once in Hawaii; making regular appearances at the Ottawa Storytellers’ National Arts Centre series; telling the great epics of the world at Rasputin’s Cafe and the National Arts Centre and Taylor Lake, in Lanark Co. Working with young people, especially in educational settings, has always been integral to her storytelling work. Jennifer has had a long commitment to building excellence in performance. She has worked extensively both as a workshop leader and as a mentor to help tellers connect deeply to their material, so they can create performances that are as compelling and authentic as possible. Jennifer lives in Lanark, Ontario. More about Jennifer can be found at www.jennifercayley.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-oral-storytelling-wk3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Introduction to Oral Storytelling a 4-week course led by Jennifer Cayley TUESDAYS - May 13, 20, 27, & June 3, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekly Pre-registration via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ed37f613-c25c-4c8b-a389-2b64ed6c9e91/Jennifer+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories for more than four decades. Her repertoire includes traditional, epic, literary, historical and personal material. Performance highlights include: collaborating with Jan Andrews on touring The Book of Spells: A Love Story to Rome, Australia, Wales, USA and southern Ontario; appearing at festivals across Canada and once in Hawaii; making regular appearances at the Ottawa Storytellers’ National Arts Centre series; telling the great epics of the world at Rasputin’s Cafe and the National Arts Centre and Taylor Lake, in Lanark Co. Working with young people, especially in educational settings, has always been integral to her storytelling work. Jennifer has had a long commitment to building excellence in performance. She has worked extensively both as a workshop leader and as a mentor to help tellers connect deeply to their material, so they can create performances that are as compelling and authentic as possible. Jennifer lives in Lanark, Ontario. More about Jennifer can be found at www.jennifercayley.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-oral-storytelling-wk2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Introduction to Oral Storytelling a 4-week course led by Jennifer Cayley TUESDAYS - May 13, 20, 27, & June 3, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekly Pre-registration via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ed37f613-c25c-4c8b-a389-2b64ed6c9e91/Jennifer+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories for more than four decades. Her repertoire includes traditional, epic, literary, historical and personal material. Performance highlights include: collaborating with Jan Andrews on touring The Book of Spells: A Love Story to Rome, Australia, Wales, USA and southern Ontario; appearing at festivals across Canada and once in Hawaii; making regular appearances at the Ottawa Storytellers’ National Arts Centre series; telling the great epics of the world at Rasputin’s Cafe and the National Arts Centre and Taylor Lake, in Lanark Co. Working with young people, especially in educational settings, has always been integral to her storytelling work. Jennifer has had a long commitment to building excellence in performance. She has worked extensively both as a workshop leader and as a mentor to help tellers connect deeply to their material, so they can create performances that are as compelling and authentic as possible. Jennifer lives in Lanark, Ontario. More about Jennifer can be found at www.jennifercayley.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-oral-storytelling-wk1 monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Introduction to Oral Storytelling a 4-week course led by Jennifer Cayley TUESDAYS - May 13, 20, 27, & June 3, 2025 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekly Pre-registration via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ed37f613-c25c-4c8b-a389-2b64ed6c9e91/Jennifer+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories for more than four decades. Her repertoire includes traditional, epic, literary, historical and personal material. Performance highlights include: collaborating with Jan Andrews on touring The Book of Spells: A Love Story to Rome, Australia, Wales, USA and southern Ontario; appearing at festivals across Canada and once in Hawaii; making regular appearances at the Ottawa Storytellers’ National Arts Centre series; telling the great epics of the world at Rasputin’s Cafe and the National Arts Centre and Taylor Lake, in Lanark Co. Working with young people, especially in educational settings, has always been integral to her storytelling work. Jennifer has had a long commitment to building excellence in performance. She has worked extensively both as a workshop leader and as a mentor to help tellers connect deeply to their material, so they can create performances that are as compelling and authentic as possible. Jennifer lives in Lanark, Ontario. More about Jennifer can be found at www.jennifercayley.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Introduction to Oral Storytelling - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/workshop-with-peter-winfield monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Recovering Language when Words Fail Us - Recovering Language when Words Fail Us A creative writing workshop with Peter Winfield Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6e5dcd6e-a85a-4370-aa39-d21071993acc/Peter+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Recovering Language when Words Fail Us - Peter Winfield is a veteran who retired early due to mental health injuries. He is a former army officer who served in the infantry, armour and then worked in counter terrorism signals intelligence with the Communications Security Establishment. He has multiple overseas deployments. After his last deployment he was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety, and double depression. Then one day he took his soul for walk. He went to therapy and tried medication. He learned to practice mindfulness, breath work and energy work. He went back to school. He studied creative writing, art history, mindfulness, meditation, and compassion. He learned to walk the labyrinth. He returned to his lifelong passion for making art through painting and photography. At some point his soul started to smile again and the labyrinth showed him a new way to find meaning. He recently began to step out of the shadows of the life he created to speak publicly about mental health, to teach journaling and labyrinth walking for healing journeys, to write and to show his art. He has been fortunate enough to sell some of his art which is the lifelong passion that saved his life. Currently, he is completing his MFA in Creative Writing at King’s University in Nova Scotia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Recovering Language when Words Fail Us - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/workshop-with-sean-moreland monthly 0.5 2025-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop - Writing Life and Writing Horror - Exercising Daemons/ Exorcising Demons Writing Life and Writing Horror with Sean Moreland Pre-registration via Tickets Please CLICK HERE Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/41d890bd-8c19-4f9e-81ce-f410b3fdd2a9/Sean+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop - Writing Life and Writing Horror - Sean Moreland is an educator, editor and reluctant writer whose essays (often focused on gothic, horror and weird fiction in its literary, cinematic, and sequential art guises) have appeared in many journals and collections, including Horror Literature Through History, Lovecraftian Proceedings, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory, and The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. They have (co)edited collections including Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror (2013), Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters (2015), The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation (2017) and New Directions in Supernatural Horror: The Critical Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft (2018). They also write short fiction and poetry, some of which has been published in venues including The Malahat Review, Dissections, Vastarien, Lackington’s, Black Treacle, Bywords, and Over The Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins. Sean teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa - view their profile here. They occasionally interview, review, and ruminate about weirdness at Postscripts to Darkness. More on Sean is available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop - Writing Life and Writing Horror - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-july-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-june-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/poetry-workshop-with-kimberley-murphy monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Language of the Heart - Language of the Heart A poetry workshop with Kimberley Murphy Pre-registration required Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/651311b8-1767-4772-85b8-2aac8e3a1e49/Kim+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Language of the Heart - Kimberley Murphy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply rooted in a lifelong love for nature and animals. Since childhood, this connection has shaped her creative vision. As an adult, writing emerged as a vital practice, allowing her to explore and articulate the language of her heart. Through her art, Kimberley captures the essence of fleeting moments, emotions, and the changing seasons, all of which reflect her internal landscape. Fueled by a rebellious and wild spirit, she has embraced creativity as a means to harmonize her unruly heart. Currently, Kimberley resides along the banks of the Mississippi River with her partner, David, and their rescue dog, Rocky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Language of the Heart - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-haiku-6555r-b32c3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Haiku: the art and its related forms a 4-week course led by Claudia Radmore TUESDAYS - April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/841b47b2-8603-48e8-87c8-9a98a7910284/Claudia+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Claudia Coutu Radmore is the former President of Haiku Canada. She has been publishing lyric poetry and Japanese-form poetry for thirty years. the business of isness and fish spine picked clean were her latest collections of haiku and tanka. In 2024 she collaborated with Grant D. Savage of Ottawa for heron still there, a book-length collection of a thousand linked verses, which was published by Éditions des petits nuages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-haiku-6555r-aj6dy monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Haiku: the art and its related forms a 4-week course led by Claudia Radmore TUESDAYS - April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/841b47b2-8603-48e8-87c8-9a98a7910284/Claudia+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Claudia Coutu Radmore is the former President of Haiku Canada. She has been publishing lyric poetry and Japanese-form poetry for thirty years. the business of isness and fish spine picked clean were her latest collections of haiku and tanka. In 2024 she collaborated with Grant D. Savage of Ottawa for heron still there, a book-length collection of a thousand linked verses, which was published by Éditions des petits nuages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-haiku-6555r monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Haiku: the art and its related forms a 4-week course led by Claudia Radmore TUESDAYS - April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/841b47b2-8603-48e8-87c8-9a98a7910284/Claudia+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Claudia Coutu Radmore is the former President of Haiku Canada. She has been publishing lyric poetry and Japanese-form poetry for thirty years. the business of isness and fish spine picked clean were her latest collections of haiku and tanka. In 2024 she collaborated with Grant D. Savage of Ottawa for heron still there, a book-length collection of a thousand linked verses, which was published by Éditions des petits nuages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Make it stand out The 2025 Lanark Lit Festival of Writing is presented by Almonte Readers & Writers thanks to the generous funding support of Lanark County, the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, the Perth & District Community Foundation, and the Elizabeth Kelly Library Foundation, with community partnership from the Mississippi Mills Public Library, the Perth & District Public Library, Mill Street Books, Almonte Writers Guild, and with the community support of Equator Coffee, OVC Almonte, Jazzy’s Brewhaus and other local partners https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-haiku monthly 0.5 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e675d04a-a99d-462d-9867-9dde71657fd8/Creative-writing-circles-slim.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Haiku: the art and its related forms a 4-week course led by Claudia Radmore TUESDAYS - April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. weekly Pre-registration required via Tickets Please Regular rate $120.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/841b47b2-8603-48e8-87c8-9a98a7910284/Claudia+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Claudia Coutu Radmore is the former President of Haiku Canada. She has been publishing lyric poetry and Japanese-form poetry for thirty years. the business of isness and fish spine picked clean were her latest collections of haiku and tanka. In 2024 she collaborated with Grant D. Savage of Ottawa for heron still there, a book-length collection of a thousand linked verses, which was published by Éditions des petits nuages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Haiku: the art and its related forms - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/poetry-workshop-with-wanda-praamsma monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b2659f05-b747-4a62-9c8f-92b2e2f2b16c/Art+of+Writing+WORKSHOP+slim.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Chaos, collage, & our disparate selves - Chaos, collage, & our disparate selves A poetry workshop with Wanda Praamsma Pre-registration required Regular rate $40.00 per registration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6773face-94a5-4618-8cc2-dbda5843e5ec/Wanda+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Chaos, collage, & our disparate selves - Wanda Praamsma is a poet and writer currently living in Kingston, Ontario. Her works include a thin line between (Book*hug, 2014) and aversions // nothing special (chapbook, above/ground, 2022). Another chapbook is forthcoming this year with Lake’s End Press. Her poems, non-fiction, and reviews have appeared in journals and newspapers in Canada and the U.S. Wanda is the founder and organizer of drift/line, a series of events featuring poetry and music in Kingston, and she works at Queen's University. She grew up in Clayton, went to high school in Almonte, and still loves walking and driving the back roads throughout Lanark County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9fa91e5a-f002-4d4f-b284-b3888baf7e4b/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_condensed.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Chaos, collage, & our disparate selves - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-prompted-poetry monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a8a31cc8-68d2-42e9-98bf-e2d6d6c19e96/474675146_10170609561215461_8067140578857369938_n.jpg Programs & Events - Prompted Poetry Circle (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-april-2025-27 monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for April (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-april-2025-13 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for April (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-may-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - Local Lit - writers & poets OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-april-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local lit OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - Local lit OPEN MIC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-march-2025-30 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for March (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-march-2025-16 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for March (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-discussion-group-short-stories-march2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1728701175229-LRHYWVP1GMBBYBPKDO53/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - AWG Discussion Group: Outlining and Planning Short Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-march-2025-2 monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for March (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/writing-craft-book-club-save-the-cat-writes-a-novel monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/86e983c7-570d-4186-89f5-645f21778fed/FB+event+banner+April+2025.png Programs & Events - Writing Craft BOOK CLUB: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-discussion-group-literary-magazines-feb18 monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1728701175229-LRHYWVP1GMBBYBPKDO53/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - AWG Discussion Group: Literary Magazines: Publishing Your Short Stories and Poetry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-feb-2025-2 monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for February (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-feb-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for February (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-discussion-group-finding-inspiration-and-creativity monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1728701175229-LRHYWVP1GMBBYBPKDO53/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - AWG Discussion Group: Finding Inspiration and Creativity - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-january-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for January (AWG) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-january-23 monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-dagne-and-carolyn-poetry monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8e884b2f-6e78-42d6-87f2-8bec0ac69cf7/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ce50a22a-7b50-44ed-aa4a-c3ea1cb7898e/Dagne+and+Carolyn+tighter+headshots.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/7a00f344-3443-4d3b-a449-546b5ea9d095/Dagne+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Dagne Forrest is an award-winning writer based in Almonte, Ontario. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. In 2023 she won the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest run by The New Quarterly (Canada). In 2025, she was one of eight finalists selected by US poet Maggie Smith for the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize run by december magazine. Her first chapbook “Un / Becoming” has just been published by Baseline Press (2025). More about Dagne can be found by visiting www.dagneforrest.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/2a99ad98-1e90-4c02-9f2d-3c331ed03c1e/Carolyn+raised+headshot.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Carolyn Smart is the author of an award-winning memoir and seven collections of poetry, including “Hooked” and “Careen”. She is a freelance editor, founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in South Frontenac, Ontario. For more than three decades she was Director of Creative Writing at Queen’s University. More about Carolyn can be found by visiting www.carolynsmartediting.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8a5aef2f-c682-46fe-b6e7-3c31f1fc8133/league+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9f0134b-373b-499b-b253-334b5f777f19/LC_MM_PCDF_EKF_MillSt_AWG_MMLib_PDCF_Equator_OVC_Jazzys.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Dagne Forrest & Carolyn Smart - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-nov172024-awg monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for November [social/focus mix] AWG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/lanark-lit-awards-gala-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/572aea19-4e1e-4f53-8ab8-bae9f51dc826/awards+headers.png Programs & Events - LANARK LIT Writing Competition - Awards Gala & Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/5870911d-156b-4a16-8553-a958f363d486/2+EKF+and+MM+and+MMPL.png Programs & Events - LANARK LIT Writing Competition - Awards Gala & Reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/haiki-workshop-claudia monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6da143eb-19de-4ed2-92e8-eb7f4d54e943/Haiku+art.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: The Real Art of Writing Haiku - A workshop that will change what you think you know about haiku Facilitated by Claudia Radmore Registration: $40.00 via Tickets Please https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4cd58770-1ecb-4982-a671-a8387a0c1aec/Claudia+oval.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: The Real Art of Writing Haiku - Claudia Radmore began a long teaching career in Montreal and continues to do so in various parts of the world because she loves it. An artist and writer, she has been creating both lyric and Japanese-form poetry for nearly thirty years. Several full poetry collections and chapbooks have been published, and hundreds of her poems can be found in major journals across Canada and internationally. Claudia has been trying to write a really good haiku since 1998. She is the past President of both Kado, Ottawa’s haiku group, and Haiku Canada, the national group for Japanese-form poets. She has edited anthologies and collections. Every year she gives workshops or readings at The Haiku Canada Weekend, which takes place in a different part of Canada each year, from the Yukon to Newfoundland. Her haiku collection the business of isness was published in 2017, and her latest Japanese-form collection, fish spine picked clean, was published in 2018. She has also published several collections of lyric poetry, the lasts of which are Park Ex Girl, and rabbit, both in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ebc0b4e8-a1da-44df-ad1f-6952b28f8dd6/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: The Real Art of Writing Haiku - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-rose-and-hypatia monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8e884b2f-6e78-42d6-87f2-8bec0ac69cf7/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Rose Graceling-Moore & Hypatia Rae - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/0ba2e14b-bcb0-495a-8dd9-be4459e92c3b/Rose+oval+raised.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Rose Graceling-Moore & Hypatia Rae - Rose Graceling-Moore (Perth) started her writing career in entertainment journalism over a decade ago, as a freelance writer, editor, and eventually, content manager. However, her real love has always been in romance, and two years ago, she started work on her debut novel, Just One Summer. She writes romance in both contemporary and magical realism, with a love of realistic relationships blossoming in pleasantly un-realistic situations, with magical pies, magical bars, and magical summers behind them. Rose loves character-driven stories, and hones her character-building skills through playing D&D, and by digging into psychology in her spare time. She is now working on her third romance novel, and pursuing traditional publishing for her first two. Rose now lives her own Hallmark-worthy life in small-town Perth, Ontario, with her partner, two cats, and probably too many plants. More about Rose can be found at www.rosegracelingmooreauthor.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6b680fe2-749d-4414-8d24-60c2b0e750fb/Hypatia+Rae+oval+raised.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Rose Graceling-Moore & Hypatia Rae - Hypatia Rae (Almonte) is a local/Canadian author who writes fantasy books about characters kissing. She has been regaling family and friends with dramatic tales since early childhood and loves nothing more than creating expansive worlds for her characters, then setting them free so she can document their exploits. Hypatia is known for her strong characters and compelling worldbuilding. She most often combines romance with a helping of humour. Her debut novel The Witch of Faymeria Wood, released last November on Amazon, with the follow up in April. The final book in the trilogy is due early 2025. Her newest release, Rise of the Fae King, is a prequel novella available to purchase now, or free to newsletter subscribers. More about Hypatia Rae and her books can be found by visiting www.hypatiaraebooks.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/5fb514bb-263e-4228-8cbe-90b69092a182/MM_OVC_MillSt.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Rose Graceling-Moore & Hypatia Rae - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/nov2024-write-in-arw monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1709833566342-GWNZAMZEMIP8N6Q86GRZ/small---AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for November [all focus time] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ebc0b4e8-a1da-44df-ad1f-6952b28f8dd6/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for November [all focus time] - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-nov2024-awg monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for November [social/focus mix] AWG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-20oct2024-awg monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for October [social/focus mix] AWG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/awg-discussion-group-self-publishing-101 monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-kim monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1887770a-731d-40f1-a00e-d47f0f7b1e0b/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Kim Kilpatrick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/69c40557-0999-40d4-87ec-5630b9c2162b/raised+Kim2.png Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Kim Kilpatrick - Kim Kilpatrick has over twenty years experience as a storyteller. She has created and performed four one woman shows in Ottawa and at festivals all across Canada: “Flying in the Dark” (2011) a story about what it is like to grow up and thrive as a blind person in a sighted world. “Raising Stanley/Life with Tulia” (2018) a story about what it is like to live with guide dogs presented along with paintings, video, music, and open audio description. “Dangerous Touch” (2022) a story about what it is like to live through COVID as a blind person. “Put the Dog in the Trunk” (2024) a show all about advocacy. Kim continues to perform regularly for Ottawa Storytellers, telling tales of all genres including epic, historic, folk, and autobiographical stories. Kim is also proud to be an artist with MASC since 2010; bringing her storytelling into schools and communities and with radical connections bringing her art into health care settings since 2021. She is also currently working on a project shaping stories collected on the palliative care unit. Kim enjoys giving workshops, advocating for more accessibility in the arts, reading, writing, and traveling the world with her wonderful fifth guide dog Ginger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6f63bb81-13b8-46b2-b830-d8c3a9845734/Equator_MM_MillSt.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Kim Kilpatrick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/self-editing-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/9edf15e3-b5ef-4b16-a839-7061042f901e/post+-+Self+editing.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Self-Editing - A workshop on how to make (and not break) your book Facilitated by Sarah Reside Registration: $40.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f6efee36-abc0-4a4e-95d8-05de0c726f48/Sarah+raised+headshots.png Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Self-Editing - Sarah Reside is a freelance editor who works with indie (self-publishing) authors to make their publishing dreams come true. She has BA in applied linguistics and discourse studies and a certificate in publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University. She also edits for the Senate of Canada. In her free time, you can find her in a coffee shop, writing her own novel. Sarah lives and works in Almonte, Ontario. More about Sarah is available at www.editsandrevisions.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ebc0b4e8-a1da-44df-ad1f-6952b28f8dd6/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.jpg Programs & Events - Art of Writing workshop: Self-Editing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-oct2024 monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for October [social/focus mix] AWG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-sept2024-awg2 monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for September [social/focus mix] ARW - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/write-in-for-sept2024-awg1 monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/8eed5d29-e053-49a1-90fc-9b2e26047b86/AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for September [social/focus mix] AWG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/sept2024-writein monthly 0.5 2024-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1709833566342-GWNZAMZEMIP8N6Q86GRZ/small---AWG.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for September [all focus time] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ebc0b4e8-a1da-44df-ad1f-6952b28f8dd6/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.jpg Programs & Events - Write-in for September [all focus time] - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/writers-craft-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/61245249-ea51-4b47-91ef-3f0f10bcf51e/WCBookClubevent+banner.jpg Programs & Events - Writers Craft BOOK CLUB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-writing-kids-books monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/833e36a2-b99d-4c04-ac8d-3d13e9170747/Kids+book+circle+Square.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - How to write kids books - Facilitated by Melissa Baker Nguyen Rate for 4-week course: $120.00 TUESDAYS - October 8, 15*, 22, 29 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library *5:30-7:30 p.m. on October 15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e2dcb72e-d0a1-42bc-9c0e-d5a8d411e096/Melissa+small+headshots.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - How to write kids books When Melissa Baker Nguyen was growing up, you could always find her with a pencil and paper in hand. Melissa has always loved drawing and creating, and that led her to graduate from both Acadia University, with a degree in Studio Art, and The University of Calgary, with a degree in Education. Coming from a Studio Art background, painting was her first passion. Always a curious creative soul, she was pulled toward – and continues to master – digital art and children’s book illustration. Melissa has worked for the past 15 years creating graphics and logos for many start-ups, ministries, and non-profits. All of this design and built-up creativity have led her to finally open her own little shop. This has been a longtime dream and is now a reality. She couldn't be happier to share her work with you! Melissa works wherever she is, with whatever she has on hand, whether that is in Uganda, Vietnam, even at her Mom's in Nova Scotia, or in Perth, Ontario where she currently resides! Nowadays, you can find her generally under the strict supervision of her very quirky Havanese puppy named Nash. In her studio, you’ll find her knee-deep in paper, pencils, pens and paint, with a steaming cup of coffee not far off (fun fact, she keeps a coffee maker in her studio space!). The rest of the time, this true Canadian girl is volunteering, spending time with family and friends, or curled up in a giant sweater dreaming up new and beautiful things. Much more on Melissa can be found at www.lostbumblebee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/35ac49d8-21e6-4492-8270-d4f64d74378a/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.1.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - How to write kids books - Make it stand out Presented with support from the Mississippi Mills Public Library, and partially funded by the Municipality of Mississippi Mills. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/stop-drop-and-write monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a2c6e243-4681-43f3-9a7f-adef2046d6d6/Stop+Drop+and+Write+colour+smaller.png Programs & Events - Stop, Drop, & Write - A workshop to ignite your imagination Led by Joey Graff Registration: $40.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/70798816-8a65-4f7f-956d-1a80e782c3a1/Joey+raised+headshots.png Programs & Events - Stop, Drop, & Write - Joey Graff is a multidisciplinary artist from Almonte, Ontario. Alongside his work as a puppeteer, director, writer, and artistic producer, Joey is one of the founding members of the artistic collective, the Department of Creative Disobedience. In Almonte, he is the Project Coordinator at Mississippi Mills Youth Centre where he engages with telling stories through weekly Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. To connect with Joey, stop by our local gem of a bookshop, Mill Street Books. You’re likely to find him there book browsing! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-sept-19-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/youth-short-story-writing-101 monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/fcf638dd-2b5c-44d1-88f8-2ab0a2f53c5e/Drop+everything+logo+square.jpg Programs & Events - Short Story Writing Workshop for Youth - A workshop for writers aged 10 - 18 years Led by Joey Graff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/bab12e7b-66c1-4205-b578-ac3c8b8966ac/EKF+and+MM+and+MMYC.png Programs & Events - Short Story Writing Workshop for Youth https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-july monthly 0.5 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/get-writing-your-story-how-to-just-go monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a3becfaf-a807-4fd5-b995-28bb5a0badf0/How+to+Just+Go+colour.jpg Programs & Events - Get Writing Your Story: How to Just GO - A short story writing 101 workshop Facilitated by Cian Cruise THURSDAYS - June 20 & 27, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ONLINE via Video call https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/672c3242-893c-4d1c-aa46-5accd34fccd7/Cian+Cruise+oval+raised.jpg Programs & Events - Get Writing Your Story: How to Just GO - Cian Cruise is a writer from Perth, formerly Almonte, formerly Toronto, formerly Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of DAD BOD (2022, Dundurn Press), a book of essays on fatherhood and pop culture, as well as a number of short stories published in magazines including Broken Pencil, THIS Magazine, The Puritan, and Little Brother Magazine. His writing has been called "clever, riveting" by The Globe and Mail, and "thought provoking" by The Independent Mail. More on Cian can be found at www.ciancruise.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ade8d847-a622-4fa0-9955-15a7f235aa8b/EKF+and+MM.jpg Programs & Events - Get Writing Your Story: How to Just GO https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/family-focus-books-for-kids-june2024 monthly 0.5 2024-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4c63e52a-f296-4164-86ef-918b3fddb6a2/Square+Family+focus.png Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Featuring guest authors Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow who will read their books and lead fun activities for the whole family No charge to participate / free admission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/c3808afa-00f4-4b86-a89a-5917beaf4b2a/kerry+Lyn+Sparrow.png Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Make it stand out By Kerry Lyn Sparrow: Sleep, Sheep! (2018, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Guillaume Perreault); The Couch Potato (2019, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Yinfan Huang) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/178f4081-e141-4d2b-aa11-d94e27faf157/Planet+is+a+Poem.png Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Make it stand out By Amanda West Lewis: A Planet is a Poem (2024, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Oliver Averill) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d36faa72-fe2c-41a7-8fe6-1a5a1e3407a2/Amanda+raised.png Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Amanda West Lewis is the author of ten books for children and young adults, including historical novels, craft, and non-fiction books, and her latest work A Planet is a Poem (2024, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Oliver Averill). Her books have been nominated for the Silver Birch Award, Red Cedar Award, Violet Downey IODE Award, Snow Willow Award, included in the American League of Poets recommended reading summer 2022, and others. She is a writer, theatre creator, calligrapher, and teaching artist. Amanda has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives in the woods of Brooke Valley, Ontario, with her husband, writer Tim Wynne-Jones, where she gets a good view of the stars at night. More on Amanda at www.amandawestlewis.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/43f6c5ad-257a-4761-938b-edcee1740206/Kerry+raised.png Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Kerry Lyn Sparrow is an elementary school teacher who lives on a farm in Antrim, Ontario. Kerry is passionate about reading and creating stories that are engaging and relatable. She loves the creative process of writing stories, and hopes that her books will spark creativity and foster imagination in her young readers. She has published two books: Sleep, Sheep! (2018, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Guillaume Perreault) and The Couch Potato (2019, Kids Can Press; illustrated by Yinfan Huang). Her desk is currently overflowing with exciting new projects! More on Kerry at www.kidscanpress.com/Creators/kerry-lyn-sparrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f0a489e9-3873-4d3a-9e2f-25c4312eaba9/MMPL_MM_MillSt+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - Family Focus — Books for kids! with Amanda West Lewis & Kerry Lyn Sparrow - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-margaret monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1887770a-731d-40f1-a00e-d47f0f7b1e0b/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Margaret Macpherson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/93b0d654-9197-420e-b367-8aea8d749992/9781774390610+%281%29+%281%29.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Margaret Macpherson - About Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood, Margaret says— "I wrote this book hoping white Canadian wrestling with their place in the reconciliation process might consider the nature of institutional racism and realize how none are exempt. Racism doesn't have to be overt. It exists in the structures established by a colonial system. The beginning of healing is recognising culpability and taking responsibility for same. My story is only my story, no one else's, but my hope is that it would act as a mirror for readers so others recognize themselves in the unwitting child narrator raised within the system." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/10b98069-254a-4456-8430-c1a686e323e3/Margaret+Macpherson+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Margaret Macpherson - Margaret Macpherson is from Yellowknife, NWT (Denendeh). Her latest book, Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood (2022, NeWest Press) was recently nominated for the Trade Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Alberta Book Publishing Association. It also won a Gold Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) in 2023. Margaret has worked as a full-time professional writer, teacher and editorial/educational mentor for the last four decades. With a Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from UBC, Margaret has written and published eight works of fiction and non-fiction, including biography, Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless (XYZ Publishing) which won the Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Exporting Alberta Award. Her collection of short stories Perilous Departures (2004, Signature Editions), and her first novel, Released (2007, Signature Editions) were both shortlisted for Manitoba Book Awards and the Re-Lit Award and her second novel Body Trade (2011, Signature Editions) won the DeBeers Northword Prize. Margaret is currently preparing a second short story collection for publication from her new home in the Ottawa Valley, where she lives with her husband. For more on Margaret visit her website www.margaretmacpherson.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6f63bb81-13b8-46b2-b830-d8c3a9845734/Equator_MM_MillSt.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Margaret Macpherson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/open-mic-may monthly 0.5 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6caa1361-c7e7-4a72-9bd9-a28b4b715d23/Open+mic+small.jpg Programs & Events - Local writers & poets OPEN MIC - We’re opening up the stage to you, our local writers, poets and storytellers! https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/when-the-moon-rages monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/334243e3-1924-4bd6-95c1-e96a6ccd10b6/Untitled_Artwork.jpg Programs & Events - When Only the Moon Rages — The Madness, the Joy, and How to Keep on Writing - Facilitated by Jim McEwen Registration: $40.00 SATURDAY - May 11, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/c94e2e23-4989-43a6-828a-90070e61dd0d/Jim+McEwen+smaller.png Programs & Events - When Only the Moon Rages — The Madness, the Joy, and How to Keep on Writing - Jim McEwen is a writer from Dunrobin, Ontario. His first novel, Fearnoch (2022, Breakwater Books Ltd), was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Awards and the Foreword Indie Book Awards, and his other published fiction has also received numerous awards and recognition. For more on Jim, check out his interview in The Humm (October 2022), and read the Literary Review of Canada piece by Cecily Ross about his debut novel, Fearnoch (April 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ebc0b4e8-a1da-44df-ad1f-6952b28f8dd6/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.jpg Programs & Events - When Only the Moon Rages — The Madness, the Joy, and How to Keep on Writing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/terry-fallis-with-rod-carley monthly 0.5 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/90d2ebfd-e891-4240-96f1-d3ed31e5db65/Rod+and+Terry+photo.png Programs & Events - Mill Street Books presents: An Afternoon with Terry Fallis, in conversation with Rod Carley - Presented by Mill Street Books, in partnership with Almonte Readers & Writers, and with the community support of the Mississippi Mills Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/d5ee3e80-a331-4bbe-9060-08a3a7c12849/Mill-Street-Books-Header.jpg Programs & Events - Mill Street Books presents: An Afternoon with Terry Fallis, in conversation with Rod Carley https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/writing-craft-book-club1 monthly 0.5 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a5fc3cc7-5a67-4dca-b745-15667e50b1dc/FB+event+banner.jpg Programs & Events - Writing Craft Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/event-bookswap-apr2024 monthly 0.5 2024-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a71b72de-2ea6-4c7c-b259-9d322cd07c00/web+-+Bookswap.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/2e7a6269-9d28-4402-b6f3-2f2b1fc1bf5d/logo_bookswap.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f46707a0-c708-4494-b706-01b017687393/MMlogo1.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/make-em-laugh monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b6acffbf-1ea0-480e-bf76-66a2af4416d3/Masks.png Programs & Events - Make 'Em Laugh - a workshop on humour and how to write it - Facilitated by Rod Carley & Terry Fallis Registration: $50.00 SATURDAY - April 20, from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/7c149a18-013a-4117-96b7-3f1fcf8fb177/Rod+Carley+headshot+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - Make 'Em Laugh - a workshop on humour and how to write it - Rod Carley is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction: RUFF (coming September 2024), GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour and 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction fromthe Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines. Rod is a popular author and moderator with literary festivals and book clubs. Recent credits include the 1000 Islands Writers Festival, Jabbawong Storytelling Festival, Burlington Literary Festival, The Literary Press Group of Canada, and Wordstock Sudbury. For more on Rod, visit: www.rodcarley.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/4ecfb9b9-6e65-4485-9b7d-9d8bb57142fb/Terry+headshot+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - Make 'Em Laugh - a workshop on humour and how to write it - A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of nine national bestsellers, among them six #1 bestsellers, including his latest, A New Season. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, also won the 2011 edition of CBC Canada Reads, was adapted as a six-part television miniseries, and a stage musical. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Subscribe to his newsletter here: terryfallis.substack.com For more on Terry, visit: www.terryfallis.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/e9aa41e3-6496-4be8-957b-2cf78548660c/MMPL_MM_MillSt+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - Make 'Em Laugh - a workshop on humour and how to write it - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/delve-jean-and-conyer monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1887770a-731d-40f1-a00e-d47f0f7b1e0b/delve-fulltitle+banner.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Jean Van Loon & Conyer Clayton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/b0d02389-25ce-4a71-98fc-fed56483f28b/Jean+Van+Loon+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Jean Van Loon & Conyer Clayton - Ottawa born and raised, Jean Van Loon remembers happy childhood visits to a friend’s Mississippi River cottage just outside Almonte. After a career in the federal public service, she plunged into creative writing, completing an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in literary magazines from coast to coast. Her first poetry collection, Building on River, a collection inspired by the greatest of the Ottawa Valley lumber kings, was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award in 2019. Her most recent book, Nuclear Family, won that award in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/1aadf0b5-96c2-4ec6-b116-a284cb95ced8/Conyer+Clayton+smaller.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Jean Van Loon & Conyer Clayton - Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press, 2022). They are a Senior Editor at Augur and Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine. You can find their nonfiction and poetry in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/6c22d117-6d2d-455e-ba2a-90eadcc45b37/Equator_LCP_MM_MillSt.jpg Programs & Events - delve - In close conversation with Jean Van Loon & Conyer Clayton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/event-bookswap-mar2024 monthly 0.5 2024-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/a71b72de-2ea6-4c7c-b259-9d322cd07c00/web+-+Bookswap.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/2e7a6269-9d28-4402-b6f3-2f2b1fc1bf5d/logo_bookswap.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f46707a0-c708-4494-b706-01b017687393/MMlogo1.jpg Programs & Events - Book swap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-personal-storytelling monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/79682ef2-bcaa-4662-828e-c61c87920ec6/MAR-2024-Circle2.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Intro to Personal Storytelling - Facilitated by Emily Pearlman Rate for 4-week course: $120.00 THURSDAY - March 7, 14, 21, 28, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/f4b70117-5215-4fbe-b9ca-2e843898dc72/Emily+Pearlman.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Intro to Personal Storytelling - Who is the teacher? Emily Pearlman is an award-winning theatre artist and educator who makes live experiences that bring together intergenerational groups of people and develops their relationships to place and each other. She has co-created over 30 performance works in collaboration with theatre makers, dancers, musicians, audio-makers, schools, and communities. She is an Artistic Associate at the Ottawa Children’s Festival, has taught new play development and solo theatre creation at The University of Ottawa and Algonquin College, and has toured four of her own solo storytelling shows across Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/35ac49d8-21e6-4492-8270-d4f64d74378a/MMPL_and_MMlogos1.1.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle - Intro to Personal Storytelling - Make it stand out Presented with support from the Mississippi Mills Public Library, and partially funded by the Municipality of Mississippi Mills. https://www.almontereadersandwriters.org/programsandevents/4week-circle-playingwithform monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/109b08b5-8cf4-43bf-9d3c-88c776c110a0/Screenshot+2023-12-16+at+9.21.48+PM.png Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle: Playing with Form - Facilitated by Jessie Carson Rate for 4-week course: $120.00 THURSDAY - February 1, 8, 15, 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65281d243e1895791cdfe9c1/ac607963-6c77-4626-b93e-859b696f3957/Jessie+Carson.jpg Programs & Events - 4-week writing circle: Playing with Form - Who is the teacher? Jessie Carson is the Creative Director of ARW and has been a professional writer for over a decade. Her creative non-fiction has been published in Ars Medica, The Autoethnographer, Blank Spaces Magazine as well as other print and online journals. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, long-listed for CBC Canada Writes, short-listed for Prism International’s Non-Fiction Competition, among other almost-wins for her writing. Her stories are often an inquiry into the themes of motherhood, loss, and how stories live in the body and through generations. 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