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  • Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation

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

    Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s Read More

  • Virtual Reading for the 2026 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence

    Please join us for a virtual reading featuring the 2026 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence! Writers will share short excerpts from their work developed while in residence at the Mount this past spring. Following the reading, there will be a short Q & A with the writers, who will answer questions about their Residency Read More

  • Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, 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 Writer’s Night in September

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

    On Thursday, September 10th, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Stephen Billias. Stephen Billias is the published author of seven fantasy novels, one collection of short stories, and a literary novel, Pilgrim Maya, that he wrote with his wife Bela Breslau. He is a MacDowell Fellow. Stephen has Read More

  • How to nail your next public reading

    Easthampton Public Library Annex 52 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, United States

    Whether your next reading is in-person or virtual, an open mic, a journal launch, or a longer feature, join Michael Favala Goldman for a practical guide to mastering techniques that connect you with your text and with your audience in your own unique and memorable way. We will learn about presence, pacing, physical space and Read More

  • WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Stephen Billias!

    Westfield on Weekends 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA, United States

    WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Stephen Billias! Westfield on Weekends (WOW) in association with Straw Dog Writers Guild and WhipCity Wordsmiths, will present poet and author Stephen Billias as part of the free “Writers Out Loud Guest Author Series.”  The event will take place on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 Read More

  • Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew

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

    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 Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in October

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

    On Thursday, October 8th, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Jendi Reiter. Jendi Reiter is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including the poetry collection Introvert Pervert (The Word Works, 2026) and the novels Two Natures and Origin Story, both from Saddle Road Press. Recent awards include two Read More

  • Voices for Resistance: Poetry, Queer Identity, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff

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

    Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls, "politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry, When I was 8 Read More

  • WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas!

    Westfield on Weekends 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA, United States

    WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Gail Thomas! Westfield on Weekends (WOW), in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, presents award?winning poet Gail Thomas as the next featured guest in the Writers Out Loud series. Thomas will read from her newest collection, This World, and discuss her writing, influences, and creative process. A Q&A and book?signing Read More