Straw Dog Writers Guild
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Poetry Critique Meet Up in September
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesPoetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance. Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for September 28th, Read More
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How to Write a Memoir with Pamela Marin author of Motherland
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Do you have a memoir brewing but need a little guidance to help get in on the page? Join acclaimed author and memoirist Pamela Marin Saturday October 3rd from 10:30-12:30 to help you jumpstart your own memoir or get back to the project you’ve been trying to finish. After a brief discussion of the differences Read More
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Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 6th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jason Prokowiew, 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 Read More
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A Writer’s Night in October
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, October 8th, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Jendi Reiter. Jendi Reiter is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including the poetry collection Introvert Pervert (The Word Works, 2026) and the novels Two Natures and Origin Story, both from Saddle Road Press. Recent awards include two Read More
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Voices for Resistance: Poetry, Queer Identity, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls, "politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry, When I was 8 Read More
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WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas!
Westfield on Weekends 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA, United StatesWOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas! Westfield on Weekends (WOW), in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, presents award?winning poet Gail Thomas as the next featured guest in the Writers Out Loud series. Thomas will read from her newest collection, This World, and discuss her writing, influences, and creative process. A Q&A and book?signing Read More
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WriteAngles Writing Conference
Bay Path University 588 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, United StatesHold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! This year we're at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th, 2026.
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Poetry Critique Meet Up in October
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesPoetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance. Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for October 26th, Read More
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Writers Night Out in November with Don Lesser
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Don Lesser, 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 Read More
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Language Matters
International Language Institute 25 New South St #101, Northampton, MA, United StatesJoin us on Monday, November 16th for Language Matters at the International Language Institute from 6:30 - 8 pm. Participants will sit at tables with international students studying English, and students studying foreign languages. Each table will have a prompt (which does not have to be considered in one's writing) and 15 minutes to write Read More