Writers Night Out in December

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer and Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellow Darlene Elias, at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.

Hosted by Jacqueline Sheehan, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.
Sponsored by Valley Home Improvement.

Darlene Elias (memoir, creative nonfiction) is Straw Dog Writers Guild 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow. Darlene Elias is an emerging writer and poet from Western Mass. She is a Hawaiian Boricua Anti Colonial Feminist who uses literature, poetry, and spoken word to elevate and validate her own experience as a woman who is part of the diaspora in the U.S. Darlene co-founded the Writing Sisters, a community of women who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQ, grown to 15 members in the past year. The group meets twice a month and provides a safe space where members can write freely, share with one another, build, and cultivate relationships not only with one another but in the community.  As part of her fellowship, Darlene was a 2025 Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild resident.