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SUMMARY:How to nail your next public reading
DESCRIPTION:Whether your next reading is in-person or virtual\, an open mic\, a journal launch\, or a longer feature\, join Michael Favala Goldman for a practical guide to mastering techniques that connect you with your text and with your audience in your own unique and memorable way. We will learn about presence\, pacing\, physical space and tech challenges\, ideating\, and dealing with nervousness. Participants will have the chance to try out what they learn. \nLocation: Easthampton Public Library Annex\, 52 Main St\, Easthampton\, MA 01027 \nDate/Time:  Sat\, Sept 12\, 10:15-11:45am \nBring an original paragraph or two\, or a short poem to share. 100 words or less. \nWorkshop facilitator Michael Favala Goldman has performed his writing and his music too many times to count\, hosted by venues and organizations around the US and Denmark. Author of ten volumes of poetry and translator of eighteen works of Danish literature\, Michael has been running poetry critique groups for over eight years as a collaboration between Straw Dog Writers and the Northampton Center for the Arts. His latest publications include the translation of Global Sex – what sex workers know about love and capitalism\, and his new and selected poetry compilation\, No One I’ve Heard Of. \nhttps://michaelfavalagoldman.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/how-to-nail-your-next-public-reading
LOCATION:Easthampton Public Library Annex\, 52 Main Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, 01027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Craft Workshop,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Quite contrary - Contradictions in Poems
DESCRIPTION:How can you inject more ‘oomph’ into your poems\, deepening them with pleasing  contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds\, images\, and themes  in the poem taut. In this fun\, interactive workshop\, we’ll look at some poems containing  opposing effects or contents\, then create new work that dances on both sides of the fence at once.  \nSaturday\, September 19\, 2026\, 10 – 11:30 a.m. (EST) \nRegister HERE. \nHeidi Williamson is a Writing for Life Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund\, running reading and  writing groups in community and care settings. She teaches for the Poetry School\, Poetry  Society\, National Centre for Writing and The Writing Coach. Her poetry is published by Bloodaxe: Electric Shadow (2011)\, The Print Museum (2016)\, and Return by Minor Road  (2020). Her short fiction has been selected for the Bath Flash Fiction Awards\, Edinburgh True  Flash Awards\, and Fish International Short Story Prize.   \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/quite-contrary-contradictions-in-poems
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SUMMARY:How to Write a Memoir with Pamela Marin author of Motherland
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a memoir brewing but need a little guidance to help get in on the page? \nJoin acclaimed author and memoirist Pamela Marin Saturday October 3rd from 10:30-12:30 to help you jumpstart your own memoir or get back to the project you’ve been trying to finish. \nAfter a brief discussion of the differences between memoir and autobiography\, we’ll work through a series of writing exercises to help focus and expand on the elements of your life story that will engage readers. \nPamela Marin was a staff writer for the Orange County Register\, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Tribeca Trib. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Playboy\, Redbook\, Parents\, AARP Magazine\, Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines. One of her essays caught the eye of a producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Pamela wrote and recorded a piece that was featured on the show in 2001. Her memoir\, Motherland\, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s best books of 2005. Her screenplay adaptation of the book Tommy’s Honour opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Feature Film. \nPamela’s memoir is in the Forbes library’s collection\, and copies are available at Amazon and independent bookstores.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/how-to-write-a-memoir-with-pamela-marin
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
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SUMMARY:WriteAngles Writing Conference
DESCRIPTION:Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! \nThis year we’re at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th\, 2026.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writeangles-writing-conference
LOCATION:Bay Path University\, 588 Longmeadow St\, Longmeadow\, 01106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Craft Workshop,Discussion,Events for Members,Open Mic,Poetry,Services,Straw Dog Event,Submissions & Contests,Workshops,Writing Conference
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