Straw Dog Events
Planning a conference is a gargantuan task. So many details to figure out – finding the perfect venue, picking dates that don’t conflict with major holidays or events, selecting food and arranging the tech details, raising funds, choosing speakers with innovative ideas that match topics on the mind of attendees, deciding on swag, coordinating publicity. 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
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
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
April’s Writers Night Out at Forbes Library in Northampton was a hit. Our featured reader was the amazing, brilliant, powerhouse of a poet, Michael Joshua Stewart reading from three of his collections, Break Every String, Love Something and The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums. It seems we’ve hit on the right spot for our monthly 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
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
Writers Night Out is 10 years old! Help celebrate this literary birthday during the May 3 WHO by participating in our annual fundraiser for Straw Dog Writers Guild Our goal is $25,000 from March 15 through June 7, 2022. In 2020, we raised $22,000 and at the urging of friends and supporters, we increased our Read More
Gallery Dancing, Literary Costumes, Raffles, Fun Galore! Slide Show Thank you to our intern Marisa Mizzoni for editing the Ode to the Dead Writers Collection – Chapbook 2019 if you are interested in purchasing a copy for $5 please email: Becky Jones – emacjones@aol.com Read More
