Following the success of ABC’s first Writers' Night, they’d love for you to join them for their Summer Writers' Night: Writers for Writers.

Focusing on insights from writers for writers, this evening is your chance to catch up with old friends, meet new ones and get inspired for your next project. We want to bring our fabulously varied community together for a night of socializing, connecting, toasting and like-minded merriment.

Highlights will include:

- Author talks: Ben Coates (The Invention of Amsterdam: A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks) and Elizabeth Heider (May the Wolf Die) talk about how their books made it from idea to bookshelves.

-Publisher tips

Publisher (Storyhouse Works) and author Hannah Huber (Queens' Row) on how your book can make it from idea to bookshelf, using Unexpected Gifts anthology as an example. Plus a talk on the concept of ‘the writing coach’ how to get your project to the next level, with Daniel Cecil and Talia Stone, representing The Writing Co-Op.

-Talent Wall:Meet the winners

Exchange ideas with the winners of our Winter Writers' Night writing and illustration contests.

-Reading: Flash Fiction

Listen to the winning entry from this year’s student writing contest.

- Live Demos: Betty the Book Machine

Watch as ideas take shape and become books before your eyes.

- Literary Treats and Surprises

Who doesn’t love a little something special to take home?

- Networking Over Wine and Bites

Mix, mingle, and maybe meet the agent, editor, or creative partner who will help you take your next steps.

As Amsterdam’s independent bookstore since 1972, we’re honored to be a hub for creatives, educators and dreamers alike. They say, "It takes a village." Well, we’d love for you to be part of ours.