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Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: María Luisa Arroyo

Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: María Luisa Arroyo

Posted on September 29, 2021January 12, 2022

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

Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Lanette Sweeney

Posted on September 13, 2021January 12, 2022

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

First in the New Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interviews Series: Richard Wayne Horton

Posted on August 25, 2021January 12, 2022

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

As the pandemic shifts, writers navigate the new normal

Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021

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

Voices for Resistance online program on May 19

Voices for Resistance online program on May 19

Posted on May 2, 2021June 8, 2021

VOICES FOR RESISTANCE PROGRAM TO FEATURE SIX REGIONAL WRITERS WHO TACKLE ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE Six regional writers will be featured at the Voices for Resistance May 19 event. Sponsored Read More

The "A" and "B" Stories of Our Lives

The “A” and “B” Stories of Our Lives

Posted on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

by Stephanie Shafran Did you know each of us has an “A” story and a “B” story to our lives? I first heard about this concept at a featured reading Read More

If a Dog Shows Up in Your Story

If a Dog Shows Up in Your Story

Posted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

By Jacqueline Sheehan I never intended to include a dog in my 2007 novel, Lost & Found, but once a barrel-chested black lab showed up in the story line, there Read More

Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday!

Posted on November 16, 2020June 8, 2021

CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD ON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 Click here to Donate today! Thank you! 2020 may be a year we’d like to forget, but let’s end it Read More

Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday!

Posted on November 16, 2020June 8, 2021

CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD ON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 Click here to Donate today! Thank you! 2020 may be a year we’d like to forget, but let’s end it Read More

#GIVINGTUESDAY

#GIVINGTUESDAY

Posted on November 15, 2020June 8, 2021

CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD ON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 2020 may be a year we’d like to forget, but let’s end it with a celebration of giving to organizations Read More

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