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  • Voices for Resistance – a Celebration

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

    Confirmed readers include: Andrea Hairston, Chivas Sandage, Christopher J. Sparks, Doug Anderson, Ilina Singh, India Smith, John Sheirer, Kent Alexander, Lanette Sweeney, Maria Luisa Arroyo,  Marya Zilberberg, Mary Warren Foulk, Nicole M. Young,  Patrick Donnelly, & Theresa Vincent

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    Dead Writers Dance – Literary Halloween

    Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

    DEAD WRITERS DANCE - Literary Halloween! LOTS OF FUN TO BE HAD!  

    $20

  • SDWG ANNUAL MEETING

    ZOOM MA

    October 15, 2020 at 7pm hosted on Zoom Come discuss ways Straw Dog Writers Guild can further sustain and inspire your writing! Join us in our 10th year anniversary as we gather to elect new board members and officers, and discuss our goals moving forward as an anti-racist organization. Open to all members, join us! Read More

  • How to Speak in Public with Nicole M. Young

    zoom

    Sunday, January 10, 2-4 p.m. on Zoom. Pre-registration required. There is a cap of 15 participants, so sign up early.  There is a limited number of attendees (15) and then there will be a waiting list.  To Register please send your First and Last Name, and zip code in an email to strawdogreg@gmail.com   You will receive a Read More

  • Writers Night Out/In June

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    Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday, June 1, 7:00pm. Registration required. Click HERE to register.  Our featured writer is Shanta Lee Gander. Bio: Shanta Lee Gander’s work has been featured in many publications and is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and 2020 Read More

  • Writers Read / Hilltowns June

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    Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns! On Sunday, June 6 from 2-4 pm our featured reader is Howie Faerstein. To attend, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the meeting. Bio: Howie Faerstein is the author of two chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums, he said and Out of Order Read More

  • An Exploration of Flash Fiction & Flash Memoir

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    Join us online on June 16 from 6:30 – 8:00pm for An Exploration of Flash Fiction & Flash Memoir. Flash takes everything we love about compelling stories - the complexity, nuance, characters, emotion, tension, stakes - and delivers it all in an impossibly short high-wire act that leaves us deeply affected and that resonates long Read More

  • Black Writers Read Juneteeth flyer

    Black Writers Read: Juneteenth, One Year Later

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    On Friday, June 19, 2020, Valley Society hosted an over 3-hour virtual event, convening 16 Black writers from across the country to share their work. Seeing the need to sustain this platform, we launched the series, Black Writers Read. Join us, one year later in celebration of Juneteenth, to hear from members of Valley Society Read More

  • Writers Night Out/In July

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    Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday, July 6, 7:00pm. Registration required. Click HERE to register. Our featured writer is JoAnne Silver Jones. Writer Bio: In her first book, a memoir, Headstrong: Surviving a traumatic brain injury, JoAnne Silver Jones tells of her journey from suffering an act of random violence that Read More