“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
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
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
Writers Night Out Kicks Off Back-In-Person at Michelson Galleries
On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, Writers Night Out returned as an in-person event with a celebration at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA. Our 10th Writers Night Out Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview: Magdalena Gomez
Magdalena Gomez is a poet, playwright, librettist, activist speaker, podcast producer and host, educator, and performance artist whose latest work is Mi’ja: A Memoir Noir published by Heliotrope Books. Magdalena Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview: Rebecca Hart Olander
Rebecca Hart Olander is a poet, teacher, editor, and publisher whose first book-length collection Uncertain Acrobats was released in November 2021 by CavanKerry Press. She is also the author of Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview: Adin Thayer
Adin Thayer is the author of The Close World, a collection of poems published by Tebot Bach, which won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award in 2021. In her review, Read More
Christopher Heights Creative Workshop: Writers Publish a First Book
by Stephanie Shafran At the Northampton Christopher Heights Assisted Living Residence at Village Hill, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating a Creative Writing Workshop, founded by the local writer Peggy Read More