Calling Straw Dog Authors for the 10th Annual Author Showcase
Call to SDWG members who published a book in 2023... Submit your name for the drawing of readers at the 10th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books. Mark your calendars: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., on Zoom Straw Dog Writers Guild invites Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book Read More
Writers Night Out in December
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join us on Tuesday, December 5, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Carolyn A. Cushing at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the Read More
Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
zoomEach Wednesday at 7pm, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event, any 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 Read More
Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
zoomEach Wednesday at 7pm, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event, any 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 Read More
Roundtable Discussion – Your Writing Practice: Pitfalls and Solutions
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesJoin Straw Dog Writers Guild for a community-based roundtable discussion to share your best ideas and most stubborn blocks with fellow writers to gain insight into your writing process and community resources. This craft workshop with Michael Favala Goldman and Lindsay Rockwell will take place on Saturday, December 16, from 10:30am-12pm at Northampton Center for Read More
Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
zoomEach Wednesday at 7pm, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event, any 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 Read More
A Writer’s Night in December
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesJoin Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday, December 21, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Jovonna Van Pelt. Bio: Jovonna Van Pelt, poet and essayist, is the author of a gorgeous book of poetry Unrelated Questions (published in 2019) and an endearing book of Christmas Stories (published last fall). Read More
Writers Night Out in January
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join us on Tuesday, January 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Alexis Johnson at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening Read More
A Writer’s Night in January
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesJoin Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday, January 18, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Celia Jeffries. Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert—winner of the May Sarton award— has had her work published in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Puerto del Sol, as Read More
Comfort Food Poetry Share
Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United StatesGrab your comfy blanket and join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for a "Comfort Food" Poetry Share. January's Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that are carbohydrate rich, warming, uplifting, full of compassion and understanding, and/or consoling. (And you don't have any poems, read someone Read More
WriteAngles Conference
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers Guild and our literary partners around western MA are re-imagining the WriteAngles Writers Conference, a local gem for over 30 years. Please save the date, April 6, 2024, for this day-long gathering of writers. That’s a long way away, you say? You’re right, but that gives us lots of time to brainstorm Read More