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New Member Benefits! Newly Redesigned Website!

Posted on February 15, 2017October 1, 2021

Please check out our newly redesigned website! Over the past month, I have had the pleasure of redesigning the Straw Dog Writers Guild website. It has been inspiring to design Read More

Patricia Lee Lewis upon reflection …

Posted on January 16, 2017October 1, 2021

Patricia Lee Lewis upon reflection … By Patrica Lee Lewis In the year that opens before us, I will turn 80, and recently in a writing circle of workshop leaders Read More

Welcoming Big Changes for SDWG in 2017

Posted on December 15, 2016October 1, 2021

  Welcoming Big Changes for SDWG in 2017 By Elli Meeropol 2017 looms, and seven years after Straw Dog Writers Guild was conceived in Patricia Lee Lewis’ living room, we Read More

Perugia Press Turns Twenty

Posted on October 15, 2016October 1, 2021

Perugia Press Turns Twenty: Celebrating Milestones with our Local Community By Susan Kan and Rebecca Hart Olander For 20 years, Perugia Press has published the best new woman poet each Read More

The Depressed Novelist’s Complaint

Posted on September 16, 2016October 1, 2021

The Depressed Novelist’s Complaint, or How I Learned to Love the Gray By Jane Yolen Having just finished a major Holocaust novel for young adults,* I find myself at loose Read More

August 15, 2016

Posted on August 16, 2016October 1, 2021

Meet Andrew Connelly, Straw Dog’s First Scholarship Recipient by Becky Jones Andrew Connelly was chosen by his teachers at the Easthampton High School as the recipient of the first Straw Read More

July 15, 2016

Posted on July 15, 2016October 1, 2021

Notes from the Tunnels By Liz Bedell I spend most dawns curled up on the ratty old sofa in my study, trying to find the red thread of narrative. Some Read More

May 1, 2016

Posted on May 1, 2016October 1, 2021

Writing Life By Jane Roy Brown My friend Martha had just retired, and we were having a typical conversation about what she wanted to do next. Martha ticked through a Read More

Listening to Other Voices By Ellen Meeropol

Listening to Other Voices By Ellen Meeropol

Posted on April 1, 2016October 1, 2021

Listening to Other Voices Guest Blogger:  Ellen Meeropol We read for so many reasons – to be entertained, to armchair-travel, to be goosed into other ways of thinking, to learn, Read More

March 1, 2016

Posted on March 1, 2016October 1, 2021

Reflections on the New Year By Patricia Lee Lewis When the new year dawned, I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, watching the tops of snowy mountains glow pink in the Read More

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