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  • Inaugural Open Mic in partnership with The Mount and the Dean’s Beans Coffee Truck

    The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild Sunday, August 3, at 11 a.m. for our inaugural Open Mic in partnership with The Mount and the Dean's Beans Coffee Truck. Darlene Elias, SDWG Emerging Writing Fellow, will be our fabulous MC! The Guild is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, and we invite fifteen writers to read. If you want to Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in September

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

    Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Suzanne Strempek Shea on Thursday, September 11th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Suzanne Strempek Shea grew up in a small Polish-American Western Massachusetts village, dreaming of becoming a horse trainer or an artist. Her first published writing was a newspaper she handwrote and Read More

  • Straw Dog Writers Guild 15th Anniversary Celebration & Reading

    The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

      Join the Straw Dog Writers Guild to celebrate their 15th anniversary with a lively panel discussion featuring Guild co-founders and members. Highlighted are readings by novelist Michael Jerome Plunkett, Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writing Fellow Darlene Elias, and poet Julia Thacker, both alumni of the Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Emerging Writers Residency, which is Read More

  • Equinox Potluck & Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Bring poetry (your work or work by others) and a dish to celebrate summer's harvest. What do you bring to the table? Whether food or skill, speak to what you bring to the banquet of life. Come share your poems about community and activities you enjoy doing in a group or anything else that speaks Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in October

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

    Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Morgan Sheehan on Thursday, September 11th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Morgan Sheehan is a writer, teacher and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner. She’s a published poet, essayist and produced playwright. You can find her working on her new YA novel, scrawling anecdotes about Read More

  • 2025 Writers-in-Residence Virtual Reading!

    ZOOM MA

    Please join us for 2025 Writers-in-Residence Virtual Reading October 12, 2025 4:00 – 5:15 pm on Zoom Brief readings from 8 of the 9 2025 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence, plus the 2025 Straw Dog’s Emerging Writer Fellow Readers: Brenton Sizwe Zola Irene Jiang Michael Jerome Plunkett Melenie Freedom Flynn Thaddeus Haas Read More

  • WriteAngles Conference!

    Greenfield Community College 1 College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United States

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for WriteAngles, the only writers conference in Western Massachusetts. Choose from 20 different workshop and panels to attend during this full day conference, held at Greenfield Community College. Sign up to have an individual meeting with an agent. But most importantly, spend time with other writers in your community who Read More

    $150

  • Voices for Resistance presents: Celebrating One’s Roots, a reading and conversation with Theresa Okokon

    The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, United States

    Voices for Resistance presents: Celebrating One’s Roots, a reading and conversation with Theresa Okokon, storyteller, co-host of Stories from the Stage, and Pushcart Prize nominated essayist. Theresa will read selections from her writings and share stories of grief, identity, and courage. Nicole Young-Martin, founder and host of Black Writers Read, will shepherd the conversation with Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in November

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

    Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Linda Cardillo on Thursday, September 11th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. LINDA CARDILLO is an award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance who writes about the old country and the new, the tangle and embrace of family, and finding courage in the Read More

  • CANCELLED – Writers Night Out in December

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

    Writers Night Out on Tuesday December 2nd has been cancelled. Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer and Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellow Darlene Elias, at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up Read More