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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-3/2025-06-08
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in June
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Cardillo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nLinda Cardillo is an award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance. She writes about the old country and the new\, the tangle and embrace of family\, and finding courage in the midst of loss. \n\nHer debut novel\, Dancing on Sunday Afternoons\, which launched Harlequin’s Everlasting Love series\, was published in 2007. She has published a total of fourteen books and is currently writing her fifteenth\, entitled Paint the Wind\, which will be available this coming summer.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-4
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-3/2025-05-11
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION: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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nAstrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher\, who advised middle and high school literary magazines\, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury\, Vermont\, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens\, and loved writing with all her students. \nShe plays violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts\, contra dances\, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital\, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school. \nShe grew up in Gambier\, Ohio\, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College\, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia. \nShe and her wife Cece\, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage\, lived in Northampton\, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-4
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-3/2025-04-13
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-3/2025-03-09
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in March
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday March 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nChaya Grossberg is a life-long poet\, non-fiction writer and advocate for those harmed by psychiatry. She has been writing and sharing poetry for 3 decades\, participating and hosting open mics from coast to coast\, NYC to San Francisco\, Portland\, OR\, Olympia WA\, and here in the Valley. She is passionate about poetry and spoken word opening space for expression especially for those who have been silenced by psychiatry. Her popular book Freedom from Psychiatric Drugs has great reviews is available on Amazon. Her poetry book\, “Reborn: Poetic Codes for Psychiatric Survivors” is a convergence of her passions for poetry and freedom from psychiatry. She recently finished the first draft of her first novel\, Clarissa’s Hot Sauce\, which also touches on these themes. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-march-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-3/2025-02-09
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in February
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday February 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jendi Reiter 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nOrigin Story by Jendi Reiter\nJendi Reiter is the author of Two Natures (winner of the Rainbow Award for Best Contemporary Gay Fiction); An Incomplete List of My Wishes; and five poetry collections. Their writing has won awards from the Iowa Review\, New Letters\, Solstice Lit Mag\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, among others.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-february-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to 2025! Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday January 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ed Orzechowski 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \n \nEd Orzechowski’s current release\, Becoming Darlene\, follows the publication in 2016 of You’ll Like It Here\, The Story of Donald Vitkus—Belchertown Patient #3394\, which became an all-time best-seller for Levellers Press of Amherst\, Massachusetts. \nStraw Dog Writers co-founder Jacqueline Sheehan\, PhD\, says: Ed Orzechowski’s masterful rendering reveals the unspeakable conditions of institutional life for children in mid-twentieth-century America. He writes with searing honesty about the survival of a remarkable girl who creates her own inner resources to emerge with her dreams intact. \nAuthor Joy Baglio\, Founder and Director of the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, writes\, Ed Orzechowski’s account of Darlene’s story is raw and unflinching in its honesty and forthrightness. He paints a detailed\, gritty picture of a tragic childhood and the horrors of a system that abused so many. This is a difficult story\, a sad story\, yet not without hope. Becoming Darlene illuminates aspects of our own humanity\, both the shadows and the strength to persevere.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-15
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-12-08
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Deborah Gorlin at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDeborah Gorlin is the author of three books of poems\, BODILY COURSE\, White Pine Poetry Press Prize\, 1997; LIFE OF THE GARMENT\, winner of the 2014 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize; and OPEN FIRE\, Bauhan\, 2023. Her work has appeared in a wide range of journals including Poetry; American Poetry Review; Bomb\, Best Spiritual Writing 2000\, Plume; On the Seawall; the Ekphrastic Review; Mass Poetry: the Hard Work of Hope; The Common; and Yetzirah. Her lyric essay\, “Jack of All Trades\,” was published as a finalist in Calyx magazine’s 2022 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. Emerita co-director of the Writing Program at Hampshire College\, she served for many years as a poetry editor at The Massachusetts Review. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-14
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-11-10
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241105T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Steve Bernstein at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nMost authors don’t have a master plumbers license and a master’s degree. Steve Bernstein has both. As a kid\, he survived the turbulent Bronx streets of the 1960’s and chaos at home. Since his early twenties\, Steve has been a mentor\, teacher\, and advocate for teens in trouble. Steve is also a humane educator and animal rights activist who shares his home in Western Massachusetts with Little Bear\, his canine companion.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-13
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T200000
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-10-13
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDean Cycon is an author\, lawyer\, human rights advocate and internationally renowned social entrepreneur who has lived and worked in over sixty countries. Cycon is a passionate explorer of culture and history\, seeking out unexamined corners that illuminate the human condition. His narrative non-fiction\, Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Chelsea Green\, 2008) was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Travel Essay by the Independent Publishers Association and has been translated into Chinese\, Korean and Spanish. FINDING HOME (Hungary\, 1945) is his first novel.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-12
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T200000
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-09-08
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T200000
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CREATED:20240410T175200Z
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UID:10000631-1723399200-1723406400@strawdogwriters.org
SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-08-11
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240605T172954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240708T185841Z
UID:10000699-1722967200-1722974400@strawdogwriters.org
SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Bratcher Wlodyka at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nLinda Bratcher Wlodyka is the current Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023\, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount\, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox\, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem\, “Secret Cottage\,”was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012 and she was invited to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield\, MA to read that poem. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published\, Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems\, is Linda’s first full length poetry collection released in late 2023. Her poems have been widely anthologized. She is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and has recently been involved in reading and choosing poems for publication in the anthologies\, Silkworm and Naugatuck River Review.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-10
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240410T175200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T181652Z
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-07-14
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240603T154752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T170445Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Cherryl Jensen at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. She lives in Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-9
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240410T175200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T181652Z
UID:10000629-1717956000-1717963200@strawdogwriters.org
SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-06-09
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240429T153240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T154245Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jessica Jopp at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nJessica Jopp holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her novel\, From the Longing Orchard\, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press\, an award given annually to a work of prose by a queer writer. Also a poet\, Jopp has published in numerous journals\, among them Poetry and The Progressive. Her poetry collection\, The History of a Voice\, was awarded the Baxter Hathaway Prize in Poetry\, and it was published by Headmistress Press. Jopp teaches at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-8
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240410T175200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T181652Z
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-05-12
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240401T172715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T200002Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Doug Anderson at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDoug Anderson has published four books of poetry. The Moon Reflected Fire won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He has been awarded grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and has received two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent books are Horse Medicine from Barrow Street\, and Undress\, She Said from Four Way Books. His fifth book\, The Wind Made a Harp of the Pines\, is forthcoming from Nine Mile. His poems have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Massachusetts Review\, Field\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, and many other literary magazines. He has written plays and fiction and published numerous critical pieces in the New York Times Book Review\, the Boston Globe\, and the London Times Literary Supplement. He is a photographer and teacher and lives in Ashfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240410T175200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T181652Z
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nCo-create and reading and listening experience that is generous\, dynamic\, and heart-felt.\nRead a 3-minute piece\nBrief positive responses after readers share\nListeners welcome\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic-2/2024-04-14
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T190000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240403T184942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T184942Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic at Ana Bandeira
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic at Ana Bandeira\, 5:30pm THIS Saturday\, April 6! Bring 5 minutes of poetry or prose to the Straw Dog Writers Guild Open Mic after the WriteAngles conference. Enjoy great coffee and chocolate. SDWG member & former Fellow Regine Jackson will be emcee.\nAna Bandeira Chocolates is located at 48 Main St. Northampton.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/open-mic-at-ana-bandeira
LOCATION:Ana Bandeira Chocolates\, 48 Main St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240212T182909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T181339Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday April 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Diana Whitney at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDiana Whitney writes across genres with a focus on feminism\, motherhood\, and sexuality. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves (2021)\, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award. Her essays\, poetry\, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times\, Glamour\, the Kenyon Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and elsewhere. She has received numerous grants for her writing\, including from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council. Her first book\, Wanting It\, won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. A feminist activist in her hometown and beyond\, Diana lives in Vermont with her family and works as an editor and writing coach.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-7
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240117T185346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T174830Z
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SUMMARY:Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.\nPlease contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com \nFormat Focus: EVERYONE READS! \n\nRead a 3-minute piece\nCo-create a reading and listening experience with your fellow writers that is generous\, dynamic and heart-felt\nBrief positive responses after readers share\n\nHosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/everyone-reads-second-sundays-open-mic
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T173625
CREATED:20240209T164702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T182612Z
UID:10000684-1709661600-1709668800@strawdogwriters.org
SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday March 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg at Forbes Library.\nNo 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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nChaya Grossberg is a life-long poet\, non-fiction writer and an advocate for those harmed by psychiatry. She has been writing and sharing poetry for three decades\, participating and hosting open mics from coast to coast\, NYC to San Francisco\, Portland\, OR\, Olympia WA\, and here in the Valley. She is passionate about poetry and spoken word\, opening space for expression for those who have been silenced by psychiatry. Her popular book Freedom From Psychiatric Drugs has great reviews on Amazon. She recently published a poetry book\, “Reborn: Poetic Codes for Psychiatric Survivors”.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-6
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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