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 finalists was difficult, given the breadth of talent and unique voices of the applicants; thank you for your words. Our focus is on supporting emerging Read More
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 event. Regional publishers provided insight into what they do, and the writers they support in Western Mass (and beyond). After a brief Q&A, attendees swarmed Read More
“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 describe the program that they ran. Poetry critiques, non-fiction critiques, open mics in Easthampton and Longmeadow, craft workshops, writing residencies at The Mount in Lenox, Read More
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 or were incarcerated within its walls. It is a place of nightmare and of dreams, and it is where the characters of The Lost Women Read More
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 residencies during March for nine emerging writers, three writers each for three weeks (poets, fiction, creative non-fiction writers, screen-or playwrights). Selected writers will receive a Read More
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 at The Mount on Sunday, June 26th. Attendees included members of both Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Mount, as well as friends and family Read More
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 donation was gratefully received. For our Writers Night Out celebration at Michelson’s Gallery, we also had donations of food and wine from Cooper’s Corner, Big Read More
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 Anniversary Fundraisers brought in over $12,000! Thank you to all our donors! We appreciate your generosity! Photo credit to Peter Wilk (top set) & Beth Read More
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 was named Poet Laureate of Springfield in 2019 and will hold the title until September 2022. She is a Poet Laureate Fellow of the American Read More
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 the chapbook Dressing the Wounds, published by dancing girl press in 2019. In recent years, Rebecca has received praise and awards for her poetry from Read More
