• Voices for Resistance: Poetry, Queer Identity, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls, "politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry, When I was 8 Read More

  • Second Sundays Virtual Open Mic

    Second Sundays Virtual Open Mic

    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

  • Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Weekly Wednesday Writing Group
    Dalton Free Public Library 462 Main Street, Dalton, MA

    This Wednesday and every Wednesday: in-person Weekly Wednesday Writing Group at the @daltonfreepubliclibrary “Curious Writers” will meet at the Dalton Free Public Library on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm for our Weekly Wednesday Writing Group in collaboration with the Dalton Free Public Library. We will meet for dedicated writing time with a focus on: getting settled Read More

  • Straw Dog Writes

    Straw Dog Writes
    ZOOM MA

    Straw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a Read More

  • Open Mic at WOW in Westfield

    Open Mic at WOW in Westfield
    The WOW Center 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA

    FREE, low-pressure, open mic night welcoming all who love prose and poetry. Authors, poets and writers of every skill level are invited to share a 3–5-minute piece for WOW’s newest series celebrating the spoken word, produced with the Straw Dog Writers Guild and Whip City Wordsmiths. This program will happen each month on the 3rd Thursday. Read More

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  • Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Weekly Wednesday Writing Group
    Dalton Free Public Library 462 Main Street, Dalton, MA

    This Wednesday and every Wednesday: in-person Weekly Wednesday Writing Group at the @daltonfreepubliclibrary “Curious Writers” will meet at the Dalton Free Public Library on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm for our Weekly Wednesday Writing Group in collaboration with the Dalton Free Public Library. We will meet for dedicated writing time with a focus on: getting settled Read More

  • Straw Dog Writes

    Straw Dog Writes
    ZOOM MA

    Straw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a Read More

  • WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas!

    Westfield on Weekends 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA, United States

    WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas! Westfield on Weekends (WOW), in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, presents award?winning poet Gail Thomas as the next featured guest in the Writers Out Loud series. Thomas will read from her newest collection, This World, and discuss her writing, influences, and creative process. A Q&A and book?signing Read More

  • WriteAngles Writing Conference

    Bay Path University 588 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, United States

    Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! This year we're at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th, 2026.

  • Poetry Critique Meet Up in October

    Poetry Critique Meet
    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 October 26th, Read More