Readings
A Writer’s Night in May
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, May 16, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Celia Jeffries. Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert—winner of the May Sarton award— has had her work published in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Puerto del Sol, as well as Read More
Writers Night Out
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 4, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jessica Jopp 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 Read More
A Writers Night
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, June 20, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Linda Bratcher Wlodyka. Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the 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 Read More
Writers Night Out
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Cherryl Jensen 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 Read More
2024 Residency Writers Read
zoomStraw Dog Writers Guild and Edith Wharton’s The Mount present a virtual reading of the 2024 Writers-in-Residency on Saturday, September 14, 4:00-5:15pm. Our 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya, Stevie Billow, Eleanor Fuller, Jason Prokowiew, Mariah Rigg, Whitney Scharer, Mistinguette Smith, Julia Thacker, Jen Alandy Trahan. Register for this free Zoom presentation HERE. To read Read More
A Writer’s Night
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New Read More
A Writer’s Night
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, October 17 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Doug Anderson. Doug Anderson’s first full length book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His Read More
A Writer’s Night in November
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, November 21 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Susan Sensemann. Susan Sensemann is an artist and writer who recently moved from Chicago to Easthampton. She is professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught contemporary theory and painting. She Read More
Annual Author Showcase
Northampton Friends Meetinghouse 43 Center Street, Northampton, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers Guild presents our 11th Annual Author Showcase! This is a hybrid event, on Zoom and at Northampton Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Center Street, Suite 202, Northampton, on Sunday, January 26, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book published in 2024 will read as part of the 2025 annual Read More
A Writer’s Night in February
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet MacFadyen on Thursday, February 20 from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Janet MacFadyen's third full-length collection, State of Grass, was released February 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown, and a Read More