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Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview: John Sheirer
John Sheirer has published works of fiction, memoir, and current events, as well as books for children. A few of his titles include Growing up Mostly Normal in the Middle Read More
Meet the 2022 Writers-in-Residence
The Selection Committee of the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program is pleased to announce its nine residents for 2022: Yasmine AmeliJody CallahanElyse DurhamCheryl IsaacElla JacobsonLiana MackJessica ProvenzSarah WangDashaun Read More
Finalists for the Writers in Residence Program
Creative writers everywhere value uninterrupted time to write in an inspiring place and 329 of them in 7 genres from across the US, Canada and 5 other countries applied to Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Bela Breslau and Stephen Billias
Bela Breslau and Stephen Billias are the co authors of the forthcoming novel Pilgrim Maya, which they plan to release next summer. Stephen’s most recent book is A Book of Fields: Tales Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Suzanne Rancourt
Suzanne Rancourt is a poet, a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, photographer, and musical artist. As a woman of Native American and European ancestry who grew up in rural Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: María Luisa Arroyo
Boricua poet and feminist intersectional educator María Luisa Arroyo’s poetry collections include Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras (Bilingual Press 2008), and the chapbooks Flight (2016) and Destierro Means More than Exile Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Lanette Sweeney
Lanette Sweeney’s first poetry collection, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing A Child to Addiction, has just been released by Finishing Line Press. The book is Read More
First in the New Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interviews Series: Richard Wayne Horton
Richard Wayne Horton is the author of Sticks and Bones (Meat for Tea Press, 2017), and Artists In The Underworld (Human Error Publishing, 2019). Later this year he will release Read More
As the pandemic shifts, writers navigate the new normal
by Tzivia Gover This spring, I drove through three states and rode a ferry to visit my father, stepmom, and brother for the first time in what feels like forever. Read More