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Events, classes, news

Teaching and coaching 

Iowa Summer Writing Festival

June 21-22, 2025, weekend intensive writing workshop.  FULL!  

A Cavalcade of Memoir Writing Exercises.


My class is full, but there are lots of awesome other classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. It runs from mid-June until the end of July. Take a look!  Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

 

Could you use a writing coach? 

 

I would love to help!

 

I am currently taking on new clients who could use help with their writing. Editing or coaching. 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.  

 

 

 
WORD SALAD -- locally sourced, sometimes fresh

TUESDAY! June 17, 2025, 7:00pm

HOSTED BY ... the Decorah Public Libary 

Word Salad, the monthly open literary mic, will be TUESDAY, JUNE 17

Theme for June:  Flip Flop

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.

 

Pulpit Rock Brewery

Decorah, IA

6:45pm signup. 7:00pm show

 

Word Salad, every other month on the third Tuesday.

 

 

 

SIGN UP for June's Occasional and Occasionally Humorous Newsletter for updates every couple of months, and get a litle bit humor, some writing prompts, and other inspiring links.

 

SELECT PREVIOUS EVENTS

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.