Events, classes, news
WORD SALAD -- locally sourced, sometimes fresh
TUESDAY! April 15, 2025, 7:00pm
HOSTED BY JUNE MELBY! Hurrah!
Word Salad, the monthly open literary mic, will be TUESDAY, APRIL 15th.
Theme for April: Two Lips (Not "tulips," get it? ha)
Started in 2018 by June, Word Salad is an open mic for all varieties of literature: poetry, stories, fiction, essays, and none-of-the-aboves. She stepped down from regular hosting in 2022 after a car accident and ensuing problems with her hearing. But the event continues! Woot woot! And NOW she is back to hosting (on ocasion) after successful surgery. Huzzah!
Free and open to the public, and always a blast. Each month there is an optional theme. (Mention the theme in your writing, take home a small prize!)
Word Salad now sponsored by the Decorah Public library and Arthaus, Decorah.
Decorah, IA
6:45pm signup. 7:00pm show
Word Salad, every other month on the third Tuesday.
Could you use a writing coach or editor?
Hurrah, June is coaching again!
I am currently taking on new clients who could use help with their writing. Zoom meetings, in-person, or feedback on submitted pages. I can help you with issues of story development, characters, editing, staying motivated, "finding the story," writer's block, and more! Open to genres: memoir, nonfiction, fiction. Contact me for a free :30 minute consultation which we can do via phonecall or zoom. You can tell me about your project and we can discuss the ways I could help edit pages you've already written, or coach you to find your voice/story.
Have you heard about the Iowa Summer Writing Festival?
It's awesome! Six weeks of workshops and readings and classes. On the weekend June 21-22, 2025, June Melby is teaching a new weekend intensive, a generative class for memoir writers at all stages of their work:
A Cavalcade of Memoir Writing Exercises.
It will be a couple of fun, intense, and inspiration-filled days of creative writing. For more info on the whole festival, all the classes, and the whole shebang: Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
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Jan. 2018 - August 2023
WORD SALAD - locally sourced, sometimes fresh
June Melby is the host and originator of "Word "Salad," a monthly literary open mic that began at the Courtyard and Cellar, and now held at Pulpit Rock Brewery, Decorah, Iowa.
Feb. 26, 2019, Hamburg, Germany
June Melby features at Slamburg for the 8th time.
June 11, 2018, Dragonfly Books, Decorah, IA
June Melby and Keith Lesmeister team up once again to amaze and confound.
May 14, 2018. Worcester, MA.Dirty Gerund
March 13, 2018. Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont. Los Angeles, CA.
March 14, 2018. Ugly Mug, Orange, CA
June is featuring at the long-running series.