On April 27, Straw Dog Writers Guild collaborated with Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School to launch Volume 5 of The Viking Rune Stone at Forbes Library. The literary journal Read More
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Writers Night Out New Home at Forbes Library
April’s Writers Night Out at Forbes Library in Northampton was a hit. Our featured reader was the amazing, brilliant, powerhouse of a poet, Michael Joshua Stewart reading from three of Read More
2023 Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence. We received 427 applications this year from across the United States and nine other Read More
Writers-in-Residence Finalists Announced
The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program We received 427 applications this year from across the United States and nine other countries. The task of selecting the Read More
Meet the Publishers from the Publishers Panel and Marketplace
Publishers Panel and Marketplace by Beth Filson Straw Dog Writers Guild gathered eight area publishers at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Michael Favala Goldman was the MC for the Read More
Advisors on Deck
“Meeting with our Guild advisors: Jane Yolen, Bill Newman, Carol Connare, and Patricia Lee Lewis on Lexi Johnson’s beautiful deck. It was so impressive to hear each Straw Dog writer Read More
Review of The Lost Women of Azalea Court by Ellen Meeropol
By Patricia Lee Lewis The Northampton State Hospital floats in memory and in fact above a small city of people—alive and dead—who, over a span of one hundred years, worked Read More
2023 Writers-in-Residence in Partnership with The Mount Edith Wharton’s Home
The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program 2023 What: The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts, in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, offers one-week Read More
Congratulations to the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writers in Residence
Despite the intense heat of the day, about 40 people joined six of the nine Edith Wharton – Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence (from March 2022) at a celebratory event Read More
Thank You to All Who Participated in WNO Fundraiser
Thank You! This big thank you goes to our generous, big-hearted Straw Dog Writers Community. Together we raised $12,000 from 60 donors. Donations ranged from $5 to $5,000 and every Read More