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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May with Joy Deva Baglio
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Joy Deva Baglio for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, May 14th from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJoy Deva Baglio is a writer of speculative-literary fiction and the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, based in Northampton MA (and virtually). Her short stories appear widely in journals such as One Story\, Ploughshares\, The Missouri Review\, The Iowa Review\, American Short Fiction\, Conjunctions\, Tin House\, The Fairy Tale Review\, and elsewhere. Two stories have been optioned for film/TV. Her writing has been supported by fellowships\, grants\, and residencies from Yaddo\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, Ragdale\, Vermont Studio Center\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Speculative Literature Foundation\, and The Kerouac Project\, where she was the spring 2023 Writer-in-Residence living and writing in Jack Kerouac’s Orlando bungalow. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is currently at work on multiple novels and a short story collection. She’s represented by Peter Steinberg\, at United Talent Agency\, and Sean Daily at Hotchkiss\, Daily & Associates\, for film/ TV. Joy lives in Northampton\, MA\, where she can also be found playing the bagpipes\, running\, and scheming up adventures. She writes a semi-regular Substack—Alone in a Room—on the craft of writing. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-may-joy-deva-baglio
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in April with Janet Aalfs
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet Aalfs for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, April 9th from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJanet E. Aalfs\, former poet laureate of Northampton\, MA\, is a Jian Mei Tai Chi/ Qigong chief instructor\, an 8th degree black belt\, and the founder and director of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron’s Bridge/Valley Women’s Martial Arts\, a non-profit community school since 1977. Janet enjoys performing a combination of spoken word and martial arts based dance that she calls Poemotion©. Her writing has been published widely\, and her most recent full-length collection of poems is What the Dead Want Me to Know (Human Error Publishing). \nVersion 1.0.0\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-april-janet-aalfs
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March with Peter J. Newland
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Peter J. Newland for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, March 12 from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \n  \nSinger/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter J Newland formed the Springfield\, MA rock band FAT in 1969. FAT released albums on RCA and their own Dream Merchant Records and were signed to Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler in 1979. Peter wrote all the material on the FAT albums\, collaborating with other bandmembers on several songs. \nIn 1985\, Peter moved to Nashville and worked as a staff writer for Paul Overstreet and Fitzgerald/Hartley. He has had songs cut by Hank Williams Jr.\, Collin Raye\, Tracy Lawrence\, Alan Jackson\, and others. He moved back to Springfield in 2002. He appears locally and regionally with with FAT. He also performs with his rock quintet RadioX\, and The Peter J. Newland Trio. \nPeter began work on his first novel (working title: The Meteorite and the Runaway Horse) in the fall of 2022. It is an autobiographical work of creative non-fiction\, and his intent is for it to be the first of a three-book series. Each book will incorporate several of Peter’s original songs that are relevant to various aspects of the story. He has recently finished writing the first volume and\, along with his editor David Sokol\, is entering the final editing and revision phase. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-march-4
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in February
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present author Jovonna Van Pelt on Thursday\, February 12 from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJovonna Van Pelt has stories to share: funny stories\, difficult stories\, personal revelations\, and casual observations of life. She has been a featured reader for Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Poets at Large\, Gateway City Arts\, Great Falls Word Festival\, and a multiple finalist in the Poet’s Seat competition. Jo’s debut poetry collection\, Unrelated Questions (Human Error Publishing\, 2019) was serendipity after a Garlic & Arts Festival appearance. She lives happily with her rescue cat in Greenfield\, MA. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-february-12
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Linda Cardillo on Thursday\, September 11th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nLINDA CARDILLO is an award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance who writes about the old country and the new\, the tangle and embrace of family\, and finding courage in the midst of loss. Her debut novel\, Dancing on Sunday Afternoons\, which launched Harlequin’s Everlasting Love series\, was published in 2007. Her fifteenth book\, Paint the Wind\, was released in September 2025. \n\n\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-13
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in October
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Morgan Sheehan on Thursday\, September 11th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nMorgan Sheehan is a writer\, teacher and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner. She’s a published poet\, essayist and produced playwright. You can find her working on her new YA novel\, scrawling anecdotes about her time in the Peace Corps in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia\, practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu\, or dealing with her flock of ducks and two onery geese. \n\n\n\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-october-9
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in September
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Suzanne Strempek Shea on Thursday\, September 11th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center.\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Strempek Shea grew up in a small Polish-American Western Massachusetts village\, dreaming of becoming a horse trainer or an artist. Her first published writing was a newspaper she handwrote and drew for her parents every Saturday night when they went polka dancing and she stayed overnight downstairs at the home of her maternal grandparents. The Nutty News had only a circulation of one copy\, but it was a start. She fell into writing in high school\, when she went down to the office of The Palmer Journal and Monson Register\, her town’s newspaper\, to complain that it never wrote a story about the high school’s hockey team\, which contained both a sport and a couple of boys she loved. The editor told her there were no reporters free to go to the games\, and if she went\, as she did to every game\, she and her pal Barbara Sekula being the statisticians\, why didn’t she just write up a story each week and hand it in for publication. She learned to write and shoot and develop on deadline. She also learned that it paid to complain. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-september-11
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T184500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in June
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Astrid Lindstrom on Thursday\, June 26th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center.\n\n\n\n\nAstrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher\, who advised middle and high school literary magazines\, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury\, Vermont\, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens\, and loved writing with all her students. \nShe has played violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts\, contra dances\, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital\, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school. \nShe grew up in Gambier\, Ohio\, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College\, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia. \nShe and her wife Cece\, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage\, lived in Northampton\, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren. \nAstrid’s book Cecelia: A Memoir of Lesbian Love and Loss is available HERE.  \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-june-26
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May - Poetry and Journalism: A Marriage of Words
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writers Marty Dobrow and Missy-Marie Montgomery on Thursday\, May 15th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center.\n\n\n\n\nMissy-Marie Montgomery is a poet\, an artist\, and a recently retired professor of English at Springfield College. Her poetry has been published in more than two dozen journals\, including Bellevue Literary Review\, Poetry International\, and Rattle. Her 2015 collection\, The Half-Life of Passion (Open Field Press)\, was embraced for its heart-rending eloquence. Acclaimed poet Vivian Shipley described Montgomery’s poems as “songs of compassion for human longing.” Montgomery is also the author of the 2009 chapbook\, The Blue Gate. She has taught writing to Alzheimer’s patients\, and she is a judge each year for the local “Poetry Out Loud” competition among area high school students.  \nMarty Dobrow is a journalist\, but he likes to believe Missy’s compliment that he has a “poetic sensibility.” He has published over 2\,000 stories in newspapers\, magazines\, and online publications\, including The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Boston Globe\, and espn.com. He began his career as a sportswriter and published two sports-themed books: Going Bigtime: The Spectacular Rise of UMass Basketball (Summerset Press\, 1996)\, and Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Six Minor Leaguers In Search of the Baseball Dream (UMass Press\, 2010). His third book\, which focuses on an under-told story of American civil rights\, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. \nMissy and Marty met as professors at Springfield College and later got married on campus. Their union is centered on a love for their adult children\, their adorable pets\, the written word\, and—of course—each other. \n\n\n\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-may-poetry-and-journalism-a-marriage-of-words
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in April
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Regine Jackson on Thursday\, April 17th\, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center.\n\n\n\nRegine Jackson is a writer based in Springfield\, Massachusetts\, specializing in writing stories across horror\, speculative\, and fantasy genres. Additionally\, she explores themes of mental health\, the effects of inner-city life and womanhood through her poetry and prose.\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Jackson was the recipient of the Straw Dogs Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellowship\, and her work has since appeared in the 2024 Massachusetts Bards Anthology\, Pán•o•ply: Inaugural MultiCreative Anthology\, Gnashing Teeth Publishing\, Red Rose Thorns Lit Mag\, A Queen’s Narrative: Heavy is the Crown Anthology and the 2025 Reimagining New England Histories Project\n.\nNow a Board Advisor for the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Jackson hopes to hone her craft and bring more positive opportunities to her community. Jackson is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Cultural Connections: A Celebration of Black and Brown Literature Book Fair\, based in Springfield\, Massachusetts. For more details\, visit reginejackson.com or @theflimsyquill on Instagram\n\n\n\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-april-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Rick Parr on Thursday\, March 20 from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nRick Paar is a psychologist. For thirty-five years he taught a variety of course ranging from Theories of Personality (a lot of first year students) to Group Therapy (masters and doctoral students). He chaired the psychology department at Springfield College\, served on the executive board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association\, published essays in psych journals (Psychotherapy Patient\, Voices\, The International Journal of Play) and literary journals (Meat for Tea\, Blue Nib\, Aethelon). He was a columnist for The MPA Quarterly\, The Reminder\, and the Wayne (Nebraska) Herald. Somewhere along the line it occurred to him that literature\, in many ways\, does a better job of understanding what it means to be human than psychology does\, so he began writing stories: some fiction\, some nonfiction\, some long\, some short. He is on the Board of Directors of Straw Dog Writers’ Guild. His travel memoir God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go was published in December 2022. Rick lives in Longmeadow and has two grown kids and one grandson. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up.The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-march-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Joy Baglio on Thursday\, March 12 from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJoy Deva Baglio is a writer of speculative-literary fiction and the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, based in Northampton MA (and virtually). Her short stories appear widely in journals such as One Story\, Ploughshares\, The Missouri Review\, The Iowa Review\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, The Fairy Tale Review\, and elsewhere. Two stories have been optioned for film/TV. Her writing has been supported by fellowships\, grants\, and residencies from Yaddo\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, Ragdale\, Vermont Studio Center\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Speculative Literature Foundation\, and The Kerouac Project\, among others. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is currently at work on multiple novels and a short story collection. She’s represented by Peter Steinberg\, at United Talent Agency. Joy lives in Northampton\, MA\, where she can also be found playing the bagpipes\, running\, and scheming up adventures. She writes a semi-regular Substack—Alone in a Room—on the craft of writing. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-march-3
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in February
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet MacFadyen on Thursday\, February 20 from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJanet MacFadyen’s third full-length collection\, State of Grass\, was released February 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant\, a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown\, and a Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland. Recent work appears in Persimmon Tree\, White Stag\, The High Window\, Scientific American\, Wordpeace\, and several Writing the Land anthologies\, along with artwork in CALYX.. She is Managing Editor of the poetry collaborative\, Slate Roof Press\, and lives in the woods of Shutesbury. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-february-3
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T193000
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in January
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild\, Longmeadow Adult Center\, and The Storrs Library present Pete Nelson\, writer of stories\, novels\, and song lyrics on Thursday\, January 16\, 6:45 at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nPeter Nelson was born in 1953 in Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, and attended St. Olaf College in Northfield\, Minnesota. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he was also awarded a post-degree James Michener Grant for fiction. He’s published short stories and articles in numerous national magazines\, including Harpers\, Redbook\, Outside\, Men’s Life\, Men’s Health\, Playboy\, and Esquire Magazine\, which named him one of America’s top writers under forty. He was a columnist for Mademoiselle and a staff writer/contributing editor for LIVE Magazine and Wondertime. His WWII history\, Left For Dead (Randomhouse\, 2002)\, about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis\, won the 2003 Christopher Award and was named to the American Library Association’s 2003 top ten list. His work (with Zack Anderegg) of non-fiction\, Finding Riley; Saving Myself (Skyhorse\, 2013) was a finalist in the International Book awards memoirs category. His novel\, I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin\, 2010)\, was named an Indie Next #1 Choice and reached the NEIBA Bestsellers List. He has published 30 books and over 200 magazine articles. He has taught writing in the MFA programs at Emerson College and Fairfield University\, as well as undergraduate classes at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence\, at the University of Iowa\, and at the University of Arizona. He has two CDs\, The Restless Boys Club and Days Like Horses\, on the Signature Sounds label\, and has recently taught songwriting at the Parlor Room School of Music in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he lives. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-january-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T193000
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Jovonna Van Pelt\, poet and essayist. Jo is the author of “Unrelated Questions” a gorgeous book of poetry published in 2019\, and her endearing book of Christmas Stories\, “Merry and Bright\,” was published in 2022. Over the years her writing has served everything from corporation to puppeteers. Please join us on Thursday\, December 19 from 6:45-7:30pm and hear this terrific writer read from her work\, speak about creating stories and poems\, and learn how she made the transition from the corporate world to poetry. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-5
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20241023T165707Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSusan 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 has exhibited her work nationally and in galleries in Italy\, Germany\, Iceland\, Brazil and China among others. Two short stories have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review. “Encountering History” was nominated for a PEN Award for New Writers. Her collaborative projects and installations incorporate her poetry. Locally\, her poetry and art have been included in Meat for Tea and Silkworm. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-3
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20240830T173646Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, October 17 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Doug Anderson. \nDoug Anderson’s first full length book of poems\, The Moon Reflected Fire\, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His third book\, Horse Medicine\, was published by Barrow Street\, and his most recent book\, Undress\, She Said\, was published by Four Way Books. Poems from these books have won two Pushcart Prizes\, a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts\, and grants from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council. He won the Emily Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has published poetry in the Massachusetts Review\, Field\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review\, and many other literary journals. His play\, Short Timers was produced at Theater for the New City in New York City in 1981. He has written for film as well\, and published reviews and articles in the New York Times Book Review\, the Boston Globe\, The London Times Literary Supplement as well as local newspapers. His memoir\, Keep Your Head Down\, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-4
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. \nChris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me\, Abracadabratude\, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New York City Haiku\, Extreme Sonnets\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, among other collections. In addition to being a poet\, Chris is also an actor and a stand-up comedian\, so he has multiple ways of not earning a living. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-3
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, June 20\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Linda Bratcher Wlodyka. \nLinda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023\, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount\, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox\, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem\, Secret Cottage\, was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published\, Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems\, is Linda’s first full length poetry collection released September 2023. Linda is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20240403T183926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T184321Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, May 16\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Celia Jeffries. \nCelia 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 well as the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. Jeffries holds an MA from Brandeis and worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has worked with writers at all levels\, from elementary school to university both here and abroad\, and in many different communities\, including incarcerated\, literacy\, and ESL programs. Her own writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding member and served on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-may-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 18\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Christopher Boucher. \nChristopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (2011)\, Golden Delicious (2016) and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Finalist)\, all out from Melville House. He’s also the editor of Jonathan Lethem’s nonfiction collection More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House\, 2017) and the managing editor of the literary journal Post Road Magazine. Chris lives in Northampton and teaches writing and literature at Boston College. More information about Chris can be found at his website\, christopherboucher.net. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20240126T201211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T182828Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 21\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Richard Michelson. \nRICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books\, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press)\, Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois)\, Tap Dancing for the Relatives (U of Central Florida)\, and two fine-press collaborations\, Masks\, and Semblant with the artist Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press. \nMichelson’s books have been named among the 10 Best of the Year by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and The New Yorker\, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com He has received a National Jewish Book Award\, two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. His work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-march
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night in February
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Cherryl Jensen\, Thursday\, February 15\, 2024\, 6:45 – 7:30pm. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. Her memoir\, Crazy Like My Mother\, was published last year. She lives in Greenfield\, Massachusetts. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-february-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in January
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. \nCelia 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 well as the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. Jeffries holds an MA from Brandeis and worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has worked with writers at all levels\, from elementary school to university both here and abroad\, and in many different communities\, including incarcerated\, literacy\, and ESL programs. Her own writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding member and served on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-january
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20231106T175159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T180422Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in December
DESCRIPTION:Join 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. \nBio: 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). Her holiday tales and poems are a wonderful mix of smart\, funny\, and touching; just what we all need. Please come and get the Holiday Spirit! (And there might be elves.) \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-december-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T174907Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, November 16\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Justine Dymond. \nBio: Justine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won the 2018 Eludia Award from Hidden Rivers Arts. Other awards and honors include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist grant\, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer “Brave of Worms\,” a 2007 O. Henry Prize\, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006\, two Pushcart Prize nominations and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Briar Cliff Review\, Meat for Tea\, Lowestoft Chronicle\, and Cargo Literary. Demeter Press issued her co-edited collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives in 2013. She has been honored with grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. On faculty in the department of Literature\, Writing\, & Journalism at Springfield College since 2008\, she is currently working on a novel tentatively titled “Upper Crust.” \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20230927T165113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T172101Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in October
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, October 19\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Margaret Lloyd\, poet and visual artist. Born in Liverpool\, England\, of Welsh parents\, Margaret grew up in a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She attended the University of Rochester as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds\, England. In addition to publishing a book on William Carolos Williams\, she has published four collections of poems. She has held several art exhibitions\, as well as published paintings and painting/poem pairs in journals\, nationally and internationally. Lloyd lives in Florence\, Massachusetts\, and is Professor Emeritus of English at Springfield College.\n \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-october-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T194500
DTSTAMP:20260515T060253
CREATED:20230802T182652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T182934Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in September
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, September 21\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Tommy Twilite (aka Thomas Clark)\, a poet\, songwriter and performer who lives in Florence MA. He is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society\, and the Executive Editor of Silkworm. Tommy is the current Beat Poet Laureate of Massachusetts and the host of the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ-FM Valley Free Radio. His first full length collection\, Fifty Words for Rain was published in 2021. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-september-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in July
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, July 20\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Howie Faerstein. Howie is the author of 5 books (Play a Song on the Drums He Said\, Out of Order\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, Googootz and Other Poems and STAY). His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals. A multiple Pushcart nominee\, Cutthroat Discovery Poet\, & recipient of the NOVA 2022 poetry prize\, he’s co-poetry editor of Cutthroat & lives in Florence\, MA. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-july-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in June
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center are pleased to present Gary Metras\, Easthampton’s first Poet Laureate and author of twenty-one collections of poetry. Join us on Thursday\, June 15 from 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center. \nGary’s latest book\, Vanishing Points\, was selected as a Must Read 2022 Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. His essays\, reviews\, and poems have appeared in over 300 journals ranging from Boston Review of Books to American Angler\, the Connecticut Poetry Review\, and Yankee Magazine. He has taught high school and college\, is a master printer specializing in hand-crafted limited editions of poetry and has two books of poems inspired by his experiences fly fishing. He is past president of Pioneer Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-june
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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