AMSStory will have a table at the Twin Cities Book Festival. Come meet our staff and get a book signed! The 2022 Twin Cities Book Festival takes place in-person on Saturday, October 15th from 10:00am to 5:00pm, free of charge! The Festival offers bibliophiles all the joys of in-person browsing, meeting writers and publishers, and […]
October is always ripe for ghost stories and we are offering a single-session virtual workshop to help you tell your favorite “ghost” stories. We will cover both the elements of a well crafted scary story and some tricks to make the telling of the same, all the scarier. To register: Add the number of tickets […]
Saint Paul Almanac is excited to announce the celebration of our forthcoming edition, Volume 13: A Path to Each Other. The Flounder will be amoung the poets and performers for the book launch celebration that will include Theresa Alberti, Marc Anderson, Alice Duggan, Judy Hawkinson, Margaret Hasse, Margaret Lovejoy, David Mendez, Loren Niemi, Catherine Anayo Nixon, Clarence […]
Invitation only birthday celebration for the founders of American School of Storytelling. This is a low-key afternoon event with hors d'oeuvres, cake, cash bar, chit-chat, and a champagne/ sparkling grape juice toast to the hosts. Gifts not required. Roasting of Loren encouraged. Please indicate if you will attend and if so, how many will be in […]
On Friday, October 28, The Flounder Loren Niemi will tell a ghost story at the Nights of the Macabre for the Possibly Paranormal Podcast. The event starts at 5 PM at Utepils Brewing. 225 Thomas Ave N. Minneapolis, MN. Come on by for a sip and a shiver. This is a free event.
October is always ripe for ghost stories and we are offering a single-session in-person workshop in Minneapolis to help you tell your favorite “ghost” stories. We will cover both the elements of a well crafted scary story and some tricks to make the telling of the same, all the scarier. To register: Add the […]
The fundamentals of storytelling: what is a story, how to craft it, and how to tell it. We begin by looking at both personal and traditional stories to learn genres and the narrative forms, then begin making decisions about the particular narrative form you want to use, beginnings/ endings, point of view, the emotional arc of […]
On Saturday, November 5 at 1pm (ignore the photo), The Flounder Loren Niemi will read from his new book “A Breviary for the Lost” at Tributary (a poetry series) along with Tim Nolan and Christine Jaspers at the MCN6 studio at 1229 2nd St, NE, Minneapolis, MN. $5 tickets, cash or check
On Sunday, November 13 at 7pm at Zeitgeist Teatro Zuccone in Duluth, MN, The Flounder Loren Niemi will tell a story for Gag Me With A Spoon. A celebration of stories, voices, and gestures, inspired by the long winters and disconnected summers of life in the North, it functions in the tangible world and welcomes all the narratives of its […]
Diane Jarvenpa is the author of five books of poetry. Her new book, Shy Lands, is forthcoming from Blue Light Press. She has received The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award and an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is a teaching artist with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project MN and St Paul’s […]
Join The Founder Loren Niemi for the November Birds Nest Poetry as he reads from his newest poetry collection, 'A Breviary for the Lost: Poems from the During and After'. […]
The grandparents, aunts, uncles, our own parents told us about “the way it was” and when they passed and we thought, “why didn’t we collect those stories?” This two-session workshop beginning Thursday, December 1st will help you collect those family stories while there is still time. It will cover easy to use equipment, how to […]