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  • WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Don Lesser!

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

    WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present debut author Don Lesser! Westfield on Weekends (WOW) in association with Straw Dog Writers Guild and WhipCity Wordsmiths, will present debut author Don Lesser as part of the free “Writers Out Loud Guest Author Series.”  The event will take place on Thursday, June 25th at 7:00 Read More

  • Writers Night Out in July

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 7th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Parzymieso, 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

  • Inspired Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Enjoy an evening of reading and listening to poetry! Bring your newest work, your favorite work, or a poem you read from another poet. We come together on a quarterly basis to read our work and/or the work of others and enjoy filling our ears and hearts with poetry. This is a safe space to Read More

  • Writers Night Out in August with Phyllis St. George

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

    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 Read More

  • 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