Straw Dog Writers Guild

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  • Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s Read More

  • Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom

    Poetry Critique Meet Up in August

    Poetry Critique Meet
    Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

    Poetry 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 August 24th, Read More

  • Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, 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 Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in September

    The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

    On Thursday, September 10th, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Steven Billias. Stephen Billias is the published author of seven fantasy novels, one collection of short stories, and a literary novel, Pilgrim Maya, that he wrote with his wife Bela Breslau. He is a MacDowell Fellow. Stephen has Read More

  • Quite contrary – Contradictions in Poems

    How can you inject more 'oomph' into your poems, deepening them with pleasing  contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds, images, and themes  in the poem taut. In this fun, interactive workshop, we'll look at some poems containing  opposing effects or contents, then create new work that dances on both sides Read More

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  • Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Join 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

  • A Writer’s Night in October

    The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

    On 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

  • 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, 01060

    Join 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

  • WriteAngles Writing Conference

    Bay Path University 588 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, United States

    Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! This year we're at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th, 2026.

  • Writers Night Out in November with Don Lesser

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Join 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