Readings
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
A Writer’s Night in May – Poetry and Journalism: A Marriage of Words
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writers Marty Dobrow and Missy-Marie Montgomery on Thursday, May 15th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Missy-Marie Montgomery is a poet, an artist, and a recently retired professor of English at Springfield College. Her poetry has been published in more than two dozen journals, including Read More
A Writer’s Night in June
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Astrid Lindstrom on Thursday, June 26th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Astrid 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 Read More
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 StatesJoin 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 StatesStraw 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 StatesJoin 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 StatesBring 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 StatesStraw 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 MAPlease 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 StatesJoin 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