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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in April with Janet Aalfs
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet Aalfs for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, April 9th from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJanet E. Aalfs\, former poet laureate of Northampton\, MA\, is a Jian Mei Tai Chi/ Qigong chief instructor\, an 8th degree black belt\, and the founder and director of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron’s Bridge/Valley Women’s Martial Arts\, a non-profit community school since 1977. Janet enjoys performing a combination of spoken word and martial arts based dance that she calls Poemotion©. Her writing has been published widely\, and her most recent full-length collection of poems is What the Dead Want Me to Know (Human Error Publishing). \nVersion 1.0.0\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-april-janet-aalfs
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May with Eileen P. Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 5th\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Eileen P. Kennedy\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nEileen P. Kennedy’s Banshees (Flutter Press\, 2015) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards.  Her second book\, Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press\, 2021) was nominated for the General Poetry Award from the International Book Awards. Dread and Splendor: Paintings and Poems for a New Earth was just published by Shanti Arts Press. More at EileenPKennedy.com \n \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-with-eileen-p-kennedy
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May with Joy Deva Baglio
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Joy Deva Baglio for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, May 14th from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nJoy Deva Baglio is a writer of speculative-literary fiction and the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, based in Northampton MA (and virtually). Her short stories appear widely in journals such as One Story\, Ploughshares\, The Missouri Review\, The Iowa Review\, American Short Fiction\, Conjunctions\, Tin House\, The Fairy Tale Review\, and elsewhere. Two stories have been optioned for film/TV. Her writing has been supported by fellowships\, grants\, and residencies from Yaddo\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, Ragdale\, Vermont Studio Center\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Speculative Literature Foundation\, and The Kerouac Project\, where she was the spring 2023 Writer-in-Residence living and writing in Jack Kerouac’s Orlando bungalow. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is currently at work on multiple novels and a short story collection. She’s represented by Peter Steinberg\, at United Talent Agency\, and Sean Daily at Hotchkiss\, Daily & Associates\, for film/ TV. Joy lives in Northampton\, MA\, where she can also be found playing the bagpipes\, running\, and scheming up adventures. She writes a semi-regular Substack—Alone in a Room—on the craft of writing. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-may-joy-deva-baglio
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in June
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 2nd\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ellen Meeropol\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nEllen Meeropol is the author of six novels\, Sometimes an Island\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest\, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and story publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, Solstice Magazine\, and Guernica. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize\, longlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award\, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads. Ellen lives in western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and on the planning committee for the WriteAngles Writers Conference.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-5
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in June with Ellen Meeropol
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present author Ellen Meeropol for A Writer’s Night on Thursday\, June 11th from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. \nEllen Meeropol is the author of six novels\, Sometimes an Island\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest\, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and story publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, Solstice Magazine\, and Guernica. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize\, longlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award\, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads. Ellen lives in western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and on the planning committee for the WriteAngles Writers Conference. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up. The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.Island
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-june-with-ellen-meeropol
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in August with Phyllis St. George
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 4th\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Phyllis St. George\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nPhyllis St. George is a poet\, writer\, and filmmaker. Her short story\, “View from the Watchtower\,” is featured in Anthology 5 of Running Wild Press. Her poetry has appeared in the Hiram Poetry Review and Sinister Wisdom. Her villanelle won 3rd Place in the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Tech Effect Poetry Contest. She produced and directed two short films\, Plastics and The Therapy Killings. Her digital artwork “Monsters in the Deep” is found in the Bonemilk Collective Vol II by Gutslut Press. \nhttps://www.writersspringforth.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-august-4
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 6th\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jason Prokowiew\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nJason Prokowiew received a PEN America and Fulbright Scholar Award for his memoir War Boys\, about his Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during WWII. His writing has appeared in The North American Review\, The Guardian\, Salon\, Roxane Gay’s “The Audacity\,” and on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage\, where his piece “Sing” is the most watched in the show’s history. He lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-with-jason-prokowiew
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in November with Don Lesser
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 3rd\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Don Lesser\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nDon Lesser has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst. He was a professional non-fiction writer for a long time\, writing business and technical materials. Don also wrote food journalism for a number of years and has awards from the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers for his work. Currently\, he lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and writes fiction. Crystal Springs is his first published novel.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november-with-don-lesser
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October with Don Lesser
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 3rd\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Don Lesser\, 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. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nDon Lesser has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst. He was a professional non-fiction writer for a long time\, writing business and technical materials. Don also wrote food journalism for a number of years and has awards from the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers for his work. Currently\, he lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and writes fiction. Crystal Springs is his first published novel.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november-don-lesser
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Writers Night Out
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