In Their Own Voices… Missy Wick, Straw Dog Blog Editor . August in the Pioneer Valley – the blueberries are in bloom, the tomatoes are ripening on the vine, and there is abundant local fiction to pick from your independent bookstore or library shelves. For a third summer, reporter Karen Brown and her colleagues at Read More
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July 1, 2014
An Invitation to Read Missy Wick, Straw Dog Blog Editor They say that you can’t tell a book by its cover, but the first words can make or break the relationship. “How can the writer,” asks author Stephen King, “extend an appealing invitation — one that’s difficult, even, to refuse?”* Here are some answers – Read More
June 1, 2014
Ancient Shadows Editor’s note: Winter was an endurance test this year. We are due for a bit of summer pleasure – words that spice the afternoon heat; mind treks for lazy days. When Claire Day read this piece in writing workshop, it inspired thoughts of “summer reading” and the Virtual Clubhouse. In the spirit of summer Read More
May 1, 2013
Tightly Structured and Wildly Thought Interview with Celia Jeffries Guest Blogger: Sarah Feldman, Straw Dog Literary Correspondent .Celia Jeffries is a writer, teacher and editor whose published memoir pieces tackle subjects ranging from group therapy to breast cancer, through forms that include narrative, flash nonfiction and collage essay. From 2011-2013 Celia served with the Read More
April 1, 2014
My Inner Critic and I… . Guest Blogger: Linda M. Rowland-Buckley . I love to sit at my desk and watch words fall onto the page and into the mouths of my characters. The dialog between them grows and their conversations expand until I have a complete story. Then the questions arrive: What do I Read More
March 1, 2014
An Interview with Michael White Guest Blogger: Sarah Feldman, Straw Dog Literary Correspondent . Michael White is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. A two-time finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, he has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the National Magazine Award. His novel, A Brother’s Blood, was a New York Read More
February 1, 2014
A Note from Missy Wick, Blog Editor . For people like me – a digital immigrant, born and raised in the land of paper, white out pencils, and Correcto type – the migration to the Internet has been both daunting and thrilling. In truth, I do not miss all the old country ways. I Read More
January 1, 2014
An Interview with Naila Moreira Guest Blogger: Sarah Feldman, Straw Dog Literary Correspondent Naila Moreira is a writer and journalist living in western Massachusetts. Her journalism and nature essays have been published in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, The Common Online, Science News, and other venues. She works at Smith College as a writing Read More
December 1, 2013
Who Knew an Annual Meeting Could Be So Magical? Guest Blogger: Patricia lee Lewis . What I loved most about the Straw Dog Members party was the way each person walking through the front door of Jacqueline Sheehan’s wonderful home discovered that what seemed, from the outside, to be a tiny, fairytale farmhouse quickly became the Marvelous Expanding House Read More
November 1, 2013
30 Poems in November! Guest Blogger: Becky Jones as I first learned of what was originally called “30 Poems in 30 Days” from an e-mail invitation in the early fall of 2009. It came from then-Poet Laureate of Northampton, Lesléa Newman, who explained the project she envisioned: one poem a day for a month, with Read More