Congratulations to Darlene Elias (memoir, creative nonfiction) who has been selected as the 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow. Darlene Elias is an emerging writer and poet from Western Mass. She is a Hawaiian Boricua Anti Colonial Feminist who uses literature, poetry, and spoken word to elevate and validate her own experience as a woman who is Read More
The Selection Committee of the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence project is pleased to announce 33 finalists from emerging writers across the United States and other countries around the globe. We were thrilled with the depth of talent, diversity, and sheer writing tenacity of the applicants. Thank you for sharing your work. From these Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild is pleased to announce the appointment of Patricia Pin (known to most simply as “Pin”) as Executive Consultant of the organization, a new part-time, contracted position. A native of St. Thomas in southwestern Ontario, Canada, Pin now lives in the Berkshires. She comes to us from a position at The Mount, Read More
WriteAngles Conference made a spectacular return to western Massachusetts on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Shanta Lee accepted the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Award and gave an inspiring keynote address to the sold-out crowd. The planning committee is deeply grateful to our literary and business community for supporting this event. Read More
WriteAngles has a new keynote speaker! We are delighted to welcome Shanta Lee to the conference, where she will accept the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award and give the keynote address. Shanta Lee is an award-winning writer across genres and visual artist. She was the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Read More
Shanta Lee, award-winning author and visual artist, will accept the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award and give the keynote address at the WriteAngles Conference on April 6, 2024, at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Ms. Lee was the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and a Read More
It’s just a few short weeks until WriteAngles: a Straw Dog Writers Guild Conference, and tickets are going fast. Only a couple dozen seats remain available and a few agent meeting slots still open. Of note, we have awarded about 30 scholarships. Those scholarships are possible because of the amazing generosity of our community. We Read More
WriteAngles: keynote speaker, awards, and inspiration By Ellen Meeropol Registration is now open for the April 6, 2024 WriteAngles Conference. As the ticket sales increase day by day, my thoughts move away from the necessary details of conference development that have taken up most of my brain, returning to the big picture. What do we Read More
Registration is now open for WriteAngles Writers Conference, a project of Straw Dog Writers Guild. The one-day conference will be held on April 6, 2024, at the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley Street in Northampton. The keynote address will be given by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, poet, essayist, and author of the award-winning Read More
The Straw Dog Writers Guild is planning our first-ever online auction to be held this coming May, and you can help make this fundraiser a success. We’re looking for donated items, everything from vacation stays and event tickets, to gift baskets or cards for as little as $20. Do you have something to offer, perhaps Read More
