Annual Author Showcase Call for Member Submissions

Call to SDWG members who published a book in 2024… Submit your name for the drawing of readers at the 11th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books. Mark your calendars: Saturday, January 26, 2025, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m., a hybrid event in person at the Northampton Friends Meetinghouse and online on Zoom. Straw Read More

Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

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Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom. Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com Format Focus: EVERYONE READS! Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt. Read a 3-minute piece Brief positive responses after readers share Listeners Read More

Poetry Critique Meet Up in November

Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for Saturday, November Read More

Poetry Critique Meet-up in November

Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for Sunday, November Read More

A Writer’s Night in November

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

On Thursday, November 21 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Susan Sensemann. Susan Sensemann is an artist and writer who recently moved from Chicago to Easthampton. She is professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught contemporary theory and painting. She Read More

Translation: Reading the World

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Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and presenter Jesse Lee Kercheval for our (rescheduled) November craft workshop, "Translation: Reading the World" on Saturday, November 23 from 10:30am - 12:00pm via Zoom. This is a relaxed, open workshop about translating from any language into English for people just curious about translation as well as practicing translators of Read More

Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

zoom

Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom. Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com Format Focus: EVERYONE READS! Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt. Read a 3-minute piece Brief positive responses after readers share Listeners Read More

Poetry Critique Meet-up in December

Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for Saturday, December Read More

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