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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - featured reader Frances W. Henry
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nFrances W. Henry \n\n\n\nFrances W. Henry was born and raised in Sag Harbor\, New York. She graduated from the New School for Social Research and earned an MBA from Harvard University. An executive and founder of nonprofits\, she now devotes herself to the visual and literary arts. She created East Branch Press in 2006\, which has issued three volumes of her essays. Henry’s first book of memoir was published by GP Putnam’s Sons in 1983. She lives in the Hilltowns of western Massachusetts with her husband Walter Korzec.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-frances-w-henry
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvousbethf
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Cai Emmons
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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! \nCai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son and The Stylist and\, most recently\, Weather Woman\, forthcoming in October 2018\, about a meteorologist who discovers she has the power to change the weather. Novelist Caroline Leavitt says of Weather Woman\, “I love this novel so much I want to marry it.” Formerly a playwright and screenwriter\, Cai’s short work has appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly\, Narrative\, and Arts and Culture\, among others. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-cai-emmons
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jendi Reiter
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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 \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, 2016)\, the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press\, forthcoming 2018)\, and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree\, 2015). Awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Wag’s Revue Poetry Prize\, the Bayou Magazine Editor’s Prize in Fiction\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. Reiter is the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers. For literary news\, readings\, and reviews\, visit JendiReiter.com and follow @JendiReiter on Twitter.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno-jendi
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole M. Young – Featured Poet\n\nNicole M. Young is a performance poet\, playwright\, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit\, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts\, New York\, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album\, In/Put:  Live from the Valley\, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website  \n \nCandace Curran – Open Mic Host\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ ELMERS - Featured Reader Phyllis Katz
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:45! \n \nPHYLLIS KATZ \nMy two books of poetry\, All Roads Go Where They Will\, 2010 and Migrations\, 2013 were both published by Antrim House Press. My third book\, Finding Ithaca\, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2018. Copies of all thee books are available from the Norwich Bookstore (VT) and at Broadside Bookshop (MA). \nwww.phyllisbeckkatz.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader-phyllis-katz
LOCATION:Elmers\, 396 Main St\,\, Ashfield\, MA\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com  \n \n  \nEmily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six mystery and psychological suspense novels\, and one young adult psychological suspense novel\, The Leaf Reader. Titles of her adult novels include: The Broken Teaglass\, a New York Times Notable Crime Book in 2009\, The Evening Spider\, What Strange Creatures\, In Search of Rose Notes \, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Mysteries of 2011\, Miss Me When I’m Gone\, and her latest book\, The Last Thing I Told You\, which released in July 2018 and was one of PureWow’s Best Beach Reads of the summer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Shelburne Falls\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-emily-arsenault
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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