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SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns September 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday\, September 12th from 2-4pm. Our featured reader is David Wyman. To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. \nDavid Wyman’s second poetry collection\, Violet Ideologies\, was published in 2020 by Kelsay Books. His first book Proletariat Sunrise\, also published by Kelsay Books\, came out in 2017. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Dissident Voice\, Blazing Stadium\, BlazeVOX\, Clockwise Cat\, Picaroon Poetry\, Squawk Back\, Tuck Magazine\, Zombie Logic Review\, S/WORD and Genre: Urban Arts among other publications. He’s a fan of Noam Chomsky\, jazz guitar and the visionary poetry of William Blake. He lives in Massachusetts where he teaches American Literature and writing at Mount Wachusett Community College.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-september-2021
LOCATION:zoom
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In September 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday\, September\, 7:00pm. Registration required. Register HERE. Our featured writer is Lanette Sweeney. If you have any trouble registering\, contact Beth at: strawdogevents@gmail.com \nLanette Sweeney’s debut collection\, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir About Losing A Child to Addiction\, is being published by Kentucky-based Finishing Line Press in August of 2021. The book is divided into the stages of grief and features alongside her own poems 20 poems by Sweeney’s late son\, Kyle Fisher-Hertz\, who died of an overdose five years ago at the age of 26. Sweeney has two messages she hopes to share with the collection: first\, that medication-assisted treatment saves addicts lives and should not be stigmatized\, and second\, that all of us can go on to have lives rich with joy and peace\, even after surviving the most tragic losses. Sweeney’s work has been featured in many publications\, including Rattle\, Blue Collar Review\, Please See Me\, Amethyst Review\, Silkworm (the annual publication of the Florence Poets Society\, of which she is a member)\, and in several editions of McGraw Hill’s popular Women’s Studies anthology Women: Images and Reality. Sweeney has worked as a college teacher of writing and Women’s Studies at SUNY New Paltz\, where she earned her degrees in Women’s Studies and English Literature\, and as a college fund-raiser for Hampshire College. She also cocktail waitressed\, sold real estate\, and served as a United Way vice president. She is now a full-time writer thanks to her wife’s support.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-september-2021
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns August
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns! On Sunday\, August 1 from 2-4 pm. Our featured reader is Nicole M. Young. To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the meeting. \nBio: Originally from Detroit\, Nicole M. Young considers her creative practice to be inter+multi+disciplinary where theatre\, music\, poetry\, and live performance intersect informing a unique repertoire of work. Trained as a musician and actor\, Nicole’s gift for writing was discovered as an adult making sense of life and belonging in rural New England. Autobiographical in nature\, Nicole’s writing seeks to fill the spaces for women of color whose fair representations are absent in mainstream media. \nAs a content creator and events producer\, she seeks to uplift and empower those from marginalized communities such as the many she belongs to including BIPOC\, LGBTQIA+/Queer\, femme and gender expansive\, first generation college educated\, and plus size/curvy\, She is the recipient of several grants including from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts & Assets4Artists\, Easthampton City Arts\, and Northampton Open Media. Nicole is the editor of the recently released chapbook anthology\, Locating Me\, and serves as producer and host of the web series\, Black Writers Read. Her award-winning play\, get (t)his!\, has been produced in Michigan\, New York City and Western Massachusetts. Nicole’s self-produced spoken word album\, In/Put: Live from the Valley\, was released in 2019. She has performed her poetry in over 20 venues across the Northeast and Midwest including for colleges\, festivals\, and opening for musicians. \nNicole lives in Windsor\, CT and works in Western Massachusetts. \nVisit her at: https://www.nicolemyoung.com/ \nFollow Nicole on Facebook.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-august
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns July
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns! On Sunday\, July 11 from 2-4 pm our featured reader is Dr. Jim Brosnan. To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the meeting. \nReader Bio: Dr. Jim Brosnan holds the rank of full professor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence\, RI. Jim is the author of Nameless Roads (2019)\, a volume of poetry depicting New England and accompanied by original color photographs. His poems have appeared in the Aurorean (US)\, Crossways Literary Magazine (Ireland)\, Eunoia Review (Singapore)\, Nine Muses (Wales\,) Lakeview International Journal of Literature & Arts (India)\, Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada)\, Strand (India)\, and Voices of the Poppies (United Kingdom). He has won several awards in the National Federation of Poetry Society’s yearly contests. This past year I won first prize in the Rhoda Wheeler Sheehan Poetry Contest. In 2012\, he placed second in the Poet of the Year competition sponsored by the New England Teachers of English. \nVisit him at: https://www.drjimbrosnan.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-july
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Read/Hilltown
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In July
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWriter 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 left her with a severe traumatic brain injury\, to the publication of her memoir\, at age 73\, and entry into the world of writing. She is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College\, an avid sports fan\, news junky\, ocean lover and dog worshiper. She and her wife divide their time between Santa Cruz\, California and Northampton\, MA. She continues to write and is waiting on her muse to guide her into her next book. \nVisit her at: https://joannejonesauthor.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-2
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read / Hilltowns June
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBio: Howie Faerstein is the author of two chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums\, he said and Out of Order (Main Street Rag) and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklynand Googootz and Other Poems\, both published by Press 53. His poetry and reviews can be found in Great River Review\, Nimrod\, CutThroat\, Off the Coast\, Rattle\, upstreet\, Nine Mile and on-line in Verse Daily\, Nixes Mate\, Gris-Gris\, Peacock Journal\, and Connotation. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he volunteers as a mentor at the Center for New Americans\, is co-poetry editor of CutThroat\, A Journal of the Arts\, and lives in Florence\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-june
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In June
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday\, June 1\, 7:00pm. \nRegistration required. Click HERE to register.  \nOur featured writer is Shanta Lee Gander. \nBio: 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 and named as Diode Editions full-length book contest winner for her debut poetry compilation\, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak in Woke Tongues forthcoming in June 2021. Shanta Lee gives lectures on the life of Lucy Terry Prince as a member of the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and is the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to their board of directors. To learn more\, visit\, Shantaleegander.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june
LOCATION:zoom
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In: April 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday\, April 6\, 7:00pm. To Register\, email wno@strawdogwriters.org to request the Zoom link. Include your first and last name and zip code. \nOur featured writer is Sharon Tracey. \nBio: Sharon Tracey is a poet and editor and author of two full-length poetry collections: Chroma: Five Centuries of Women Artists (Shanti Arts Publishing\, 2020) and What I Remember Most is Everything (All Caps Publishing\, 2017). In her newest book\, Chroma\, she takes the reader through a series of galleries inspired by the work of forty-seven women artists painting across five centuries as she explores what it means to be human\, a woman\, a creator. Her poems have also appeared in Terrain.org\, The Worcester Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Tule Review\, The Ekphrastic Review\, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Amherst\, Massachusetts. sharontracey.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-april-2021
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Feb 2\, 2021 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nLesléa Newman has created 75 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections “October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard” (novel-in-verse) and “I Carry My Mother” and “I Wish My Father” (both memoirs-in-verse). She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. From 2008 – 2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, MA. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-leslea-newman
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Floyd Cheung
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Jan 5\, 2021 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nFloyd Cheung is author of the chapbook Jazz at Manzanar (Finishing Line Press\, 2014). His poems have appeared in Love’s Executive Order\, Naugatuck River Review\, and other journals. His scholarly work focuses on the recovery and interpretation of lesser-known Asian American writers. He teaches in the Department of English and American Studies Program at Smith College\, where he also serves as Vice President for Equity and Inclusion. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-floyd-cheung
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - two-hour open-mic extravaganza
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \n  \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on December 6\, 2-4 p.m.\n  \nHere’s how it works:To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-two-hour-open-mic-extravaganza
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Read/Hilltown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
DESCRIPTION:  \nOPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Dec 1\, 2020 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nFEATURED READER: Joshua Michael Stewart has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Salamander\, Plainsongs\, Brilliant Corners\, and many others. His books are\, Break Every String\, (Hedgerow Books\, 2016) and\, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums\, (Human Error Publishing\, 2020). Connect with him at https://www.facebook.com/joshua.m.stewart.526 \nBastard Children of Dharma Bums by Joshua Michael Stewart is a book of poems in two distinct parts. The first part is a series of thirty-four “sculpted” poems. The author explains these are erasure poems without the erased lines\, using Kerouac’s novel\, The Dharma Bums. Stewart has chosen and crafted the words to make surprising imagery and beautiful poems\, which stand well together and on their own. I enjoyed his delightful use of verbs\, such as “jump a bottle of wine\,” “surf the mountain” and “spend the warmth of God.” Some of these poems are rich with language\, some are more sparse. #26 reminds me of early James Wright with\, “A mischievous boy\, I tried to talk / to the fancy ladies in lawn hats. / Having to smile real nice\, I felt / like a dead crow.” I like the changeup of forms in both parts\, from more modern/concrete work that creatively uses white space on the page\, to golden shovels\, to more traditionally lineated poems.  In the second section of the book\, entitled “The Hardest Path\,” there is a strong influence of Japanese form.  “Nature Lesson” and “Shelburne Fire Tower” are basically series of haibun. Several poems have a Kerouacian use of extended haiku. This is Stewart’s second book\, and well worth adding to any quality poetry collection.  \n—Lori Desrosiers\, author of Keeping Planes in the Air and other books from Salmon Poetry \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Stephanie Shafran
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, November 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \n*We have changed our usual Tuesday to a Thursday due to the election. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Stephanie Shafran \nStephanie Shafran lives in Western MA. Her poetry and prose have appeared in anthologies such as Straw Dog’s Compass Roads and Ophelia’s Mom\, edited by Nina Shandler. And in journals such as Earth’s Daughters\, Whirlwind Review\, Slant and Silkworm. Her poem Pears received an honorable mention in Writers’ Digest’s 2001 non-rhyming poetry competition.  \nLast year\, Stephanie’s poem After “Since Unfinished” by Richard Blanco won 3rd place in the Robert P. Collén Poetry Competition; recently she was a semi-finalist in River Styx’s Microfiction Contest. \nStephanie published Awakening this spring.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-stephanie-shafran
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201101T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Jan Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. \nYou can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \n\n\n\nJan Freeman is a poet and the former director of Paris Press (1995–2018)\, which is now an imprint of Wesleyan University Press. She is the recipient of a 2020–2021 Associateship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Her recent book of poems\, Blue Structure (Calypso Editions) was nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award\, and championed by Ilya Kaminsky. She is the author of Simon Says\, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hyena\, recipient of the Cleveland State Poetry Center poetry prize; and the chapbook Autumn Sequence. She has received fellowships from Moulin a Nef\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Wurlitzer Foundation\, and other artist residencies. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals\, including American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The Women’s Review of Books\, The Southern Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Plume\, and most recently POETRY Magazine and Salamander. Her poems are forthcoming in the anthology Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest (Winter 2021). She is at work on a new collection of poems\, Mobius.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-jan-freeman
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Eileen Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nOctober 6 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Eileen Kennedy \nEileen P. Kennedy is a poet and academic who has focused on the writing process. Her former partner died of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 69 and this collection is based on those experiences.  Her first book\, Banshees (Flutter Press\, 2015) was nominated for a Pushcart and awarded Second Prize from the Wordwrite Books Award in Poetry. She holds a doctorate in language and literacy and has published a textbook\, fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she canoes\, hikes\, and writes. She winters in Costa Rica.  More at EileenPKennedy.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-eileen-kennedy
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Cheryl J. Fish
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \nCheryl J. Fish is an environmental justice scholar\, poet and fiction writer. She is the author of the new collection\, CRATER & TOWER\, from Duck Lake Books\, poems reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens Volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11/01. She published the chapbook Make It Funny\, Make it Last (#171\, Belladonna) and her poems have recently appeared in the electronic version of The Poetics-for-the-More-than-Human-World Anthology forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press.. Her next book of poems\, The Sauna is Full of Maids\, will feature poems and photographs from her research and travels in Finland. Cheryl’s short stories have appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review\, CheapPopLit\, and Liars League NYC. Her debut novel OFF THE YOGA MAT\, is forthcoming from Livingston Books in 2022. She has published essays on environmental justice in film\, photography\, architecture\, and literature in books\, journals\, and blogs. Fish has been Fulbright professor in Finland\, writer-in-residence at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and she is professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, City University of New York\, and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-cheryl-j-fish
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Ellen Meeropol
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nSeptember @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday\, September on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In. \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nGeneral donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n  \n \nFeatured Reader: Ellen Meeropol \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novels Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay and short story publications include Solstice\, Lilith\, Ms. Magazine\, Guernica\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. Her work has been honored by the Women’s National Book Association\, the Massachusetts Center for the Book\, PBS NewsHour\, the American Book Fest\, and Publishers Weekly. Ellen has an MFA in fiction from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. A founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Ellen coordinates their Social Justice Writing project.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/10078
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200804T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200804T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Virginia Macgregor
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nAugust @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday\, August on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In. \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nGeneral donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n \nFeatured Reader: Virginia Macgregor \nVirginia Macgregor is the author of What Milo Saw\, The Return of Norah Wells\, Before I Was Yours\, You Found Me and two novels for young adults Wishbones and As Far as the Stars. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. After graduating from Oxford University\, she taught English in three British boarding schools.  She holds an MA in Creative Writing. Virginia now lives in New Hampshire with her husband and their three small children. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-virginia-macgregor
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200802T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns with featured reader Terry S. Johnson
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on August 2\, 2-4 p.m. \nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown. \n  \nFeatured Reader: Terry S. Johnson \n“In Terry S. Johnson’s PLUNGE\, personal history\, family history\, and public history commingle—always strikingly\, always surprisingly. Think of this book as a family photo album\, in which both the sepia images of the poet’s father—war hero\, pilot\, POW—and the Polaroids depicting the poet’s own youth\, speak to one another across time. This passage is achieved through imaginative daring\, but also through a sure and steady lyric acuity. PLUNGE honors the past with vigor\, invention\, and a big-hearted generosity of spirit.”   DAVID WOJAHN \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-with-featured-reader-terry-s-johnson
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200705T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200705T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader John T. Howard
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on July 5\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nFeatured Reader: John T. Howard is Assistant Director for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Wellspring House Retreat. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. He writes poetry and prose\, and he is at work on a first novel\, a first collection of short stories\, and a first book of poems. As a Colombian-American writer\, his work often draws on connections between Latin American and Latinx experiences\, as well as the interplay of identity politics and family dynamics in multi-generational immigrant narratives. His work can be found at Indiana Review\, World Literature Today\, The Mercurian\, and forthcoming in the anthology MVICW Community & Craft
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-johnhoward
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Luke Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJune 2 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nLuke Salisbury is the author of the cult classic The Answer Is Baseball\, and four works of fiction\, No Common War\, called “one of the best war novels in decades” by Forword Reviews\, The Cleveland Indian\, nominated for a Casey Award\, Blue Eden\, and Hollywood & Sunset\, which was selected as Book of the Year (Fiction 2006) by Online Review of Books & Current Affairs\, and won Best Historical Fiction 2006 from USABookNews.  He has taught Shakespeare at Bunker Hill Community College and is on the board of the Actors Shakespeare Project. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-luke-salisbury
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In! (online)- Featured Reader Lori Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nMarch 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday May 5th on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nFeatured Reader: Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter\, Salmon Poetry\, 2013\, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak\, Salmon Poetry\, 2016 and Keeping Planes in the Air\, Salmon 2020. Two chapbooks\, Inner Sky and typing with e.e. cummings\, are from Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and teaches in the Lesley University M.F.A. program. She edits Naugatuck River Review\, a journal of narrative poetry and Wordpeace.co\, an online journal dedicated to social justice. She lives and writes in Westfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-lori-desrosiers
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T160000
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SUMMARY:ZOOM - Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Chris O’Carroll
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on May 3\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \nFeatured Reader: Chris O’Carroll is the author The Joke’s on Me (White Violet Press\, 2019).  He is a Light magazine featured poet whose work has appeared The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, New York City Haiku\, and Poems for a Liminal Age\, among other collections.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-chris-ocarroll
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Read/Hilltown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T233000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In - Something New!
DESCRIPTION:Okay so ….  WNO is canceled for April but we are not giving in to the pandemic. We are trying something new\, our version of Selected Shorts (NPR)\, or Writers’ Night In. \nHere’s how it will work. Send us your 5-minute piece (please time it)\, prose or poetry (not more than 2 poems) and we will pull 10 names out of the hat\, just like we always do. Except this time\, your words will be read by two theatrically influenced readers. We will record the event and post it on our Straw Dog You Tube channel. \nInstructions: Send a word doc of your prose or poetry\, as an attachment\, to jac.sheehan@comcast.net by April 7
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-something-new
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on April 5\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown  \nJan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Susanne Dunlap
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n \nSusanne Dunlap is the author of nine historical novels for adults and teens. Her young adult historical novel\, The Musician’s Daughter\, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year. It was also nominated for the Missouri Gateway Readers Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her YA novel In the Shadow of the Lamp was an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award nominee\, and her adult historical novel\, Listen to the Wind was a quarterfinalist for the BookLife prize and a Distinguished Favorite in the NY Big Book Awards. \nSusanne lives and writes in Northampton\, MA\, teaches writing workshops locally and also works as an editor and book coach. With a BA and MA from Smith College and a PhD in music history from Yale University\, Susanne brings a deep love of learning and teaching to all her literary endeavors.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-susanne-dunlap
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader Faith Kindness
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15.\n\n\nLong-time resident of Western Massachusetts\, Faith Dickhaut Kindness is a visual artist\, teacher\, former librarian\, and writer whose memoir in poetry is entitled The Art of Waiting.  \n“In the late 60s during the Vietnam War\,” she writes\, “I was a young wife on Okinawa. The subject matter of The Art of Waiting is based on two years in her twenties when life took a direction she hadn’t previously encountered and she simultaneously faced two unknown mindsets – that of the military and that of living in a foreign culture.  \nWhen we first arrived back in the U.S. people weren’t ready to hear the stories I was bursting to tell. Writing this book became a cathartic journey that has “released my psyche to heal.” The book is organized in roughly chronological sections with headings like a symphony. Theme and variation twine through the pages that cover the loneliness of separation\, being reunited abroad but not having what military brass considered a necessary function\, my questioning what the U.S. was doing in what felt an unpopular war\, and lingering effects of that experience after returning home. \nHer work has been published in Equinox\, Wise Woman Journal\, and Silkworm as well as being included in the Straw Dog Writers Guild anthology Compass Roads. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-faith-kindness
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Julia McKenzie Munemo
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n2016 Julia Munemo\nJulia McKenzie Munemo went to Bard College before earning a master’s in education at Harvard. After building a career as a freelance writer\, she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine.  \nMunemo won the Bridging the Gap Competition for nonfiction at the Slice Literary Writers’ Conference in 2016; was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Oakley Center for Humanities; and was selected as the nonfiction reader for the Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reunion in 2017 and as the Stonecoast alumni teaching assistant in 2018. She currently works as the interim director of the Williams College Writing Workshops and as a writer for the Williams College Magazine. She teaches courses in creative nonfiction. \nThe Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race\, Love\, and Legacy is her first book. She lives in Williamstown\, Ma. with her husband and sons. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-5
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200202T140000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Suzanne S. Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nMs. Rancourt\, Abenaki/Huron descent\, is a multi-modal Expressive Arts Therapist and CASAC with degrees in psychology\, and creative writing.  Her book\, Billboard in the Clouds\, Curbstone Press\, (now in its 2nd print at NU Press\,) received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. Her 2nd\, murmurs at the gate\, Unsolicited Press\, released in 2019. Ms. Rancourt’s work is internationally published.  She is a USMC and Army Veteran who continues to serve as a Mentor for the Saratoga County Veterans’ Peer to Peer program. To view Ms. Rancourt’s philosophies\, practices\, creative works\, please visit her website: www.expressive-arts.com \n  \n . 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-suzanne-s-rancourt
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200107T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jovonna Van Pelt
DESCRIPTION:Jovonna Van Pelt considered a college degree for a career in Journalism but was advised that she wasn’t tough enough; it may even have been true. Instead\, she earned her MA degree in Ethics. Through the years\, her writing has served colleagues\, non-profits\, corporations\, and puppeteers. Jo started writing for herself in 2014 and has since been a finalist in the Poet’s Seat competition\, a frequent contributor to poetry open mics and area word fests\, and a selected poet in the SDWG anthology Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen. Unrelated Questions is her first published volume of poetry. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. \nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jovonna-van-pelt
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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