Events for Members
Events
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Straw Dog Writes
ZOOM MAStraw 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
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Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s Read More
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Straw Dog Writes
ZOOM MAStraw 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
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Open Mic at WOW in Westfield
The WOW Center 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MAFREE, 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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Poetry Critique Meet Up in August
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesPoetry 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 August 24th, Read More
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Straw Dog Writes
ZOOM MAStraw 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
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Virtual Reading for the 2026 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence
Please join us for a virtual reading featuring the 2026 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence! Writers will share short excerpts from their work developed while in residence at the Mount this past spring. Following the reading, there will be a short Q & A with the writers, who will answer questions about their Residency Read More
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Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, 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 Read More
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Straw Dog Writes
ZOOM MAStraw 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
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Straw Dog Writes
ZOOM MAStraw 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