• A Writer’s Night in April

    The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

    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. Regine 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 Read More

  • Poetry Critique Meet Up in April

    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 Sunday April Read More

  • Writers Submission Study Hall every other Tuesday

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    Start submitting today with Submission Study Hall! Let other writers inspire and support you through the submission process. At Writers Submission Study Hall we dedicate 90 minutes to bringing our writing into the world. Come share resources and focus on supporting each other in submitting our work. Writers Submission Study Hall starts April 15th and continues every other Tuesday at 9-10:30am EST on ZOOM. If you’re interested in participating Read More

  • Wake Up Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    What activities wake you up? What gets you going? Do you ever feel like you want to shake your friend, neighbor, or country awake? Find examples of your poems to read where you may feel pleading or demanding that people wake up, where you feel inspired to start the day, when all your cells are Read More

  • Grief Doesn’t Follow a Linear Path

    Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United States

    As writers, when we write about the grieving process, we need to acknowledge that grief is as individual as we are. Writers differentiate characters by giving them unique voices, gestures, and habits. How they love and how they grieve is yet another way of making your characters come alive and stay with your reader long Read More

  • Poetry Critique Meet Up in May

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    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 Sunday May Read More

  • Writers Night Out in May

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Astrid Lindstrom 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 Read More