Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award 2017 Patricia Smith was awarded the first Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award on Nov. 12, 2017, in a ceremony at Gateway City Arts. Read More
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
Straw Dog Writers Guild Board News!
December blog for SDWG newsletter Every few years, we change up the leadership of Straw Dog Writers Guild. It’s healthy for the organization, bringing new ideas and approaches. It also Read More
The Process is Progress: Discovering Yourself Through Writing By Nicole M. Young
I’ve always been involved in the arts in some way but never would I have ever thought I’d become a writer. I picked up my first musical instrument at 8 Read More
Poetry Meet-Up Blog by Michael Favala Goldman
The Poetry Critique Meet-Up began rather inauspiciously. It was a brainstorm of mine, one day when I was out hiking with my wife: “Wouldn’t it be cool to lead a Read More
Membership updates & opportunities
Hello Straw Dog Writers Guild Members, We are so grateful to all of you for your loyalty and continued support as Straw Dog Writers grows and develops as an organization. Read More
Give Me My Ham by Lauren Marie Schmidt
On my first day of service at the Haven House, a transitional housing program for homeless women and children, the social worker put her hand on my shoulder and said, Read More
PICKETING HOME BY ELLEN MEEROPOL
Originally published in Fired Up! Green Fire Writers When the picketing started at Glen Echo Amusement Park, I was 14 and my mother wouldn’t let me go. “It’s too dangerous,” Read More
The Generosity of Literary Citizens by Ellen Meeropol
May 1 was the last Valley Gives Day — at least in this incarnation of the regional online nonprofit extravaganza — and Straw Dog Writers Guild participated, for the third Read More
2018 March Medley Writing Workshops by Carla M. Cooke
I enjoyed participating in all four of the Straw Dog Writers Guild’s 2018 March Medley Workshops. The collaboration between SDWG and the Northampton Center for the Arts allowed me to Read More
Blessings to Certain Spaces
When I was an undergrad in Athens, GA, the 40-Watt Club was the magnet that drew musicians and poets together. It was our shared space, our common ground, named after Read More