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SUMMARY:Equinox Potluck & Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Bring poetry (your work or work by others) and a dish to celebrate summer’s harvest.\n\nWhat 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 to your heart – this is a potluck after all. (And you don’t have any of your own\, find and read someone else’s poetry.) Come read and listen on the Autumn Equinox\, Monday September 22 from 6:00-7:30pm in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room with poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building.\n\nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414.\nThe Library is located at 344 Main St. in Ashfield\, MA.\n\nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild\nPlease list ingredients on your potluck dish. Thank you.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/equinox-potluck-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Share,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writers Guild 15th Anniversary Celebration & Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin 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 celebrating its fifth anniversary. \nIn September\, Plunkett’s debut novel Zone Rouge (2025) is being published by Unnamed Press. It is the story of a team cleaning up the artillery and explosives used in World War I who make a startling discovery in Verdun\, France. Julia Thacker will read from To Wildness (The Waywiser Press\, 2025)\, winner of the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public!\nSeating is limited\, registration is recommended: REGISTER HERE \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writers-guild-15th-anniversary-celebration-reading
LOCATION:The Mount | Edith Wharton’s Home\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in September
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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.\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne 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 drew for her parents every Saturday night when they went polka dancing and she stayed overnight downstairs at the home of her maternal grandparents. The Nutty News had only a circulation of one copy\, but it was a start. She fell into writing in high school\, when she went down to the office of The Palmer Journal and Monson Register\, her town’s newspaper\, to complain that it never wrote a story about the high school’s hockey team\, which contained both a sport and a couple of boys she loved. The editor told her there were no reporters free to go to the games\, and if she went\, as she did to every game\, she and her pal Barbara Sekula being the statisticians\, why didn’t she just write up a story each week and hand it in for publication. She learned to write and shoot and develop on deadline. She also learned that it paid to complain. \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-september-11
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:Inaugural Open Mic in partnership with The Mount and the Dean's Beans Coffee Truck
DESCRIPTION:Join 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! \nThe Guild is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary\, and we invite fifteen writers to read. If you want to participate\, writers may sign up onsite by 10:45 a.m. Randomly selected writers will share their poetry\, prose\, or fiction for three minutes. Let your writing ring out to the historic grounds of Edith Wharton’s Mount\, or come to listen and support writers.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/inaugural-open-mic-in-partnership-with-the-mount-and-the-deans-beans-coffee-truck
LOCATION:The Mount | Edith Wharton’s Home\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in June
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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.\n\n\n\n\nAstrid 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 graders and senior citizens\, and loved writing with all her students. \nShe has played violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts\, contra dances\, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital\, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school. \nShe grew up in Gambier\, Ohio\, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College\, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia. \nShe and her wife Cece\, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage\, lived in Northampton\, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren. \nAstrid’s book Cecelia: A Memoir of Lesbian Love and Loss is available HERE.  \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-june-26
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:A Writer's Night in May - Poetry and Journalism: A Marriage of Words
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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.\n\n\n\n\nMissy-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 Bellevue Literary Review\, Poetry International\, and Rattle. Her 2015 collection\, The Half-Life of Passion (Open Field Press)\, was embraced for its heart-rending eloquence. Acclaimed poet Vivian Shipley described Montgomery’s poems as “songs of compassion for human longing.” Montgomery is also the author of the 2009 chapbook\, The Blue Gate. She has taught writing to Alzheimer’s patients\, and she is a judge each year for the local “Poetry Out Loud” competition among area high school students.  \nMarty Dobrow is a journalist\, but he likes to believe Missy’s compliment that he has a “poetic sensibility.” He has published over 2\,000 stories in newspapers\, magazines\, and online publications\, including The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Boston Globe\, and espn.com. He began his career as a sportswriter and published two sports-themed books: Going Bigtime: The Spectacular Rise of UMass Basketball (Summerset Press\, 1996)\, and Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Six Minor Leaguers In Search of the Baseball Dream (UMass Press\, 2010). His third book\, which focuses on an under-told story of American civil rights\, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. \nMissy and Marty met as professors at Springfield College and later got married on campus. Their union is centered on a love for their adult children\, their adorable pets\, the written word\, and—of course—each other. \n\n\n\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-poetry-and-journalism-a-marriage-of-words
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Joy Baglio on Thursday\, March 12 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\, 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\, among others. 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. 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-march-3
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in February
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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. \nJanet 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 Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland. Recent work appears in Persimmon Tree\, White Stag\, The High Window\, Scientific American\, Wordpeace\, and several Writing the Land anthologies\, along with artwork in CALYX.. She is Managing Editor of the poetry collaborative\, Slate Roof Press\, and lives in the woods of Shutesbury. \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-february-3
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:Annual Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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. \nStraw Dog Writers Guild members with a book published in 2024 will read as part of the 2025 annual Author Showcase. \nIf you’ll be attending by Zoom\, register HERE \nPresenting Authors: \nBill Mailler has been writing poetry for over 50 years. In the current geo-political environment\, he takes James Baldwin’s advice especially to heart: “… what you are doing\, as a writer\, or any kind of artist\, what your role is… is to bear witness: to what life is\, does\, and to speak for people who cannot speak.”\nTrauma\, Truth & Outrage\, collected poems. Also available on Amazon. \nwindflower co-founded the Feminist Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts Women’s Center where she published and edited\, Chomo Uri\, a women’s multi-arts magazine and produced the first National Women’s Poetry Festival in 1976. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies\, including international publications.  Her poetry chapbook “Age Brings Them Home to Me” was published in March 2024 by Finishing Line Press. windflower is also a photographer celebrating the poetry in nature. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/age-brings-them-home-to-me-by-windflower/ \nEd Orzechowski is a retired high school English teacher\, radio\, and print journalist. He lives with his wife Gail in Northampton\, Massachusetts. Becoming Darlene follows the publication in 2016 of You’ll Like It Here\, The Story of Donald Vitkus—Belchertown Patient #3394\, which became an all-time best-seller for Levellers Press of Amherst\, Massachusetts. \nRebecca Daniels writes in the creative non-fiction genre. Books include: Women Stage Directors Speak: Exploring the Effects of Gender on Their Work (McFarland\, 2000)\, Keeping the Lights on for Ike (Sunbury\, 2019)\, based on her father’s letters home from Europe during WWII\, Finding Sisters (Sunbury\, 2021)\, about her genetic genealogy journey\, and her newest\, a grief memoir\, That Day And What Came After (Sunbury\, 2024). She moved to western Massachusetts in 2015 on her retirement from university teaching. \nLibby Maxey is a senior editor at Literary Mama. Her work has appeared in Crannóg\, Blue Unicorn and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Princemere Poetry Prize and the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest\, and her chapbook\, Kairos (2019)\, won Finishing Line Press’s New Women’s Voices contest. Her book Is Indwelling Poetry collection Published March 2024.https://wipfandstock.com/9798385209057/indwelling/# \nElaine Reardon‘s first chapbook\, The Heart is a Nursery For Hope\, won first honors from Flutter Press in 2016. Her second chapbook\, Look Behind You\, was also published by Flutter Press. Stories Told In A Forgotten Tongue was published by Finishing Line Press in September 2024.  www.elainereardon.wordpress.com \nSarah Ritter is a poet who recently published two illustrated books: “So Many Great Books” and “Dad\, Won’t You Walk With Me.” Sarah previously published her poetry collection “Inspirations\, Transformations and Revelations: A Poetic Expression of My Personal Journey.” She is also a contributing poet to several poetry anthologies. In her spare time\, she enjoys making homemade greeting cards and hiking with her dog. Sarah Ritter resides with her family in Connecticut. Her books are available on Amazon and audible version on Etsy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732550921r \nTrudy Knowles is a retired professor\, social activist\, mother\, grandmother\, and author of two novels\, Radishes and Red Bandanas and Me\, My Guitar and Elvis\, a book of short stories\, two education books\, and memoirs about her trip around the world in 1970 and about living through the pandemic. Book link: https://a.co/d/4Sib26S or at her website: www.trudyknowles.com \nJendi Reiter is the author of five poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Made Man (Little Red Tree); the story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press/New Millennium  Writings); and the novels Two Natures and Origin Story\, both from Saddle Road Press. They are the editor of the writing resource site WinningWriters.com. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CZ4FQHGG/winningwriter-20 \nD.K. McCutchen’s Speculative Fiction trilogy includes: JELLYFISH DREAMING (2023)\, a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE (2024)\, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant; & PLASTIC EATERS forthcoming (2026). WHALE ROAD\, creative nonfiction about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific\, was a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart Nominee.  Deb teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences\, UMass Amherst\, and is Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program. \nJanet 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 Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland. Recent work appears in Persimmon Tree\, White Stag\, The High Window\, Scientific American\, Wordpeace\, and several Writing the Land anthologies\, along with artwork in CALYX. She is Managing Editor of the poetry collaborative\, Slate Roof Press\, and lives in the woods of Shutesbury. \nA Pushcart nominee\, Dr. Jim Brosnan is the author of Long Distance Driving (2024) and Nameless Roads (2019)\, two collections of poetry accompanied by original color photographs. His poems have appeared in the Aurorean (US)\, Crossways Literary Magazine (Ireland)\, Eunoia Review (Singapore)\, Nine Muses (Wales)\, Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada)\, Strand (India)\, The Madrigal (Ireland)\, The Wild Word (West Germany)\, and Voices of the Poppies (UK). He is a professor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence\, RI.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/annual-author-showcase
LOCATION:Northampton Friends Meetinghouse\, 43 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nSusan 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 has exhibited her work nationally and in galleries in Italy\, Germany\, Iceland\, Brazil and China among others. Two short stories have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review. “Encountering History” was nominated for a PEN Award for New Writers. Her collaborative projects and installations incorporate her poetry. Locally\, her poetry and art have been included in Meat for Tea and Silkworm. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-3
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nDoug 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 third book\, Horse Medicine\, was published by Barrow Street\, and his most recent book\, Undress\, She Said\, was published by Four Way Books. Poems from these books have won two Pushcart Prizes\, a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts\, and grants from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council. He won the Emily Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has published poetry in the Massachusetts Review\, Field\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review\, and many other literary journals. His play\, Short Timers was produced at Theater for the New City in New York City in 1981. He has written for film as well\, and published reviews and articles in the New York Times Book Review\, the Boston Globe\, The London Times Literary Supplement as well as local newspapers. His memoir\, Keep Your Head Down\, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nChris 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 York City Haiku\, Extreme Sonnets\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, among other collections. In addition to being a poet\, Chris is also an actor and a stand-up comedian\, so he has multiple ways of not earning a living. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-3
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T171500
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:2024 Residency Writers Read
DESCRIPTION:Straw 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. \nOur 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya\, Stevie Billow\, Eleanor Fuller\, Jason Prokowiew\, Mariah Rigg\, Whitney Scharer\, Mistinguette Smith\, Julia Thacker\, Jen Alandy Trahan. \nRegister for this free Zoom presentation HERE. \nTo read the writers’ bios visit The Mount’s Virtual Reading event listing.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/2024-residency-writers-read
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240702T200000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Cherryl Jensen at Forbes Library.\nNo 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.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. She lives in Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-9
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T193000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night
DESCRIPTION:On 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. \nLinda 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 with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount\, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox\, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem\, Secret Cottage\, was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published\, Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems\, is Linda’s first full length poetry collection released September 2023. Linda is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-2
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T200000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jessica Jopp at Forbes Library.\nNo 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.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nJessica Jopp holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her novel\, From the Longing Orchard\, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press\, an award given annually to a work of prose by a queer writer. Also a poet\, Jopp has published in numerous journals\, among them Poetry and The Progressive. Her poetry collection\, The History of a Voice\, was awarded the Baxter Hathaway Prize in Poetry\, and it was published by Headmistress Press. Jopp teaches at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-8
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T193000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, May 16\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Celia Jeffries. \nCelia 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 the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. Jeffries holds an MA from Brandeis and worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has worked with writers at all levels\, from elementary school to university both here and abroad\, and in many different communities\, including incarcerated\, literacy\, and ESL programs. Her own writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding member and served on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-may-2
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T193000
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 18\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Christopher Boucher. \nChristopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (2011)\, Golden Delicious (2016) and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Finalist)\, all out from Melville House. He’s also the editor of Jonathan Lethem’s nonfiction collection More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House\, 2017) and the managing editor of the literary journal Post Road Magazine. Chris lives in Northampton and teaches writing and literature at Boston College. More information about Chris can be found at his website\, christopherboucher.net. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T200000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:Viking Runestone Literary Magazine Celebration
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join us for a celebration of artists and writers from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. We are excited to announce the launch of The Viking Runestone\, Spring 2024 Volume 6 at Forbes Library\, Thursday\, April 11 at 6:30pm in the Coolidge Room. \nStraw Dog Writers Guild is proud to collaborate with the staff of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School to shine a light on the creative energy of these talented students. \nLight refreshments offered. Please RSVP to Kim Keough at kkeough@smithtec.org. \nWarm regards\,\nKim Keough and Tracey Burke\, Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School\nJacqueline Sheehan\, Straw Dog Writers Guild Steering Committee Member
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/viking-runestone-literary-magazine-celebration
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T193000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
CREATED:20240126T201211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T182828Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 21\, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Richard Michelson. \nRICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books\, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press)\, Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois)\, Tap Dancing for the Relatives (U of Central Florida)\, and two fine-press collaborations\, Masks\, and Semblant with the artist Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press. \nMichelson’s books have been named among the 10 Best of the Year by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and The New Yorker\, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com He has received a National Jewish Book Award\, two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. His work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-march
LOCATION:01060
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T194500
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T205858Z
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night in February
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Cherryl Jensen\, Thursday\, February 15\, 2024\, 6:45 – 7:30pm. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. Her memoir\, Crazy Like My Mother\, was published last year. She lives in Greenfield\, Massachusetts. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-february-2
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
CREATED:20231229T194149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T204412Z
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SUMMARY:Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for our annual Author Showcase on January 20th\, 4-5:30 on Zoom. Register for this event HERE. \nOur readers with new books in 2023 will be:\nAdrie Rose\nAnne Pinkerton\nCherryl Jensen\nDeb Gorlin\nDina Friedman\nHowie Faerstein\nJoan Livingston\nJohn Sheirer\nJordan Hall\nLindsay Rockwell\nSuzanne Rancourt\nTzivia Gover
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/author-showcase
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T194500
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
CREATED:20231117T185406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T181218Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in January
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, January 18\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Celia Jeffries. \nCelia 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 the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. Jeffries holds an MA from Brandeis and worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has worked with writers at all levels\, from elementary school to university both here and abroad\, and in many different communities\, including incarcerated\, literacy\, and ESL programs. Her own writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts\, where she is a founding member and served on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-january
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in December
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Carolyn A. Cushing at Forbes Library. \nNo 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. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio: Carolyn A. Cushing is a lyric poet inspired by nature and currently focused on the places where life and death meet. Her poems have been published in local\, regional\, and national poetry journals. She seeks out ways to collaborate with fellow writers and artists as well as share poetry in dynamic formats\, resulting in projects such as the Poetry Oracle (2020) and Chapbook in the Street (2022). Carolyn is a recipient of grants from the Easthampton Cultural Council and Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and was a finalist for the Philbrick Poetry Award of the Providence Athenaeum (2012) and the Tarantula Poetry Contest of Pilgrimage Journal (2018). She is the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate of Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-december-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T194500
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T174907Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, November 16\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Justine Dymond. \nBio: Justine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won the 2018 Eludia Award from Hidden Rivers Arts. Other awards and honors include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist grant\, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer “Brave of Worms\,” a 2007 O. Henry Prize\, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006\, two Pushcart Prize nominations and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Briar Cliff Review\, Meat for Tea\, Lowestoft Chronicle\, and Cargo Literary. Demeter Press issued her co-edited collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives in 2013. She has been honored with grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. On faculty in the department of Literature\, Writing\, & Journalism at Springfield College since 2008\, she is currently working on a novel tentatively titled “Upper Crust.” \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-2
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T171500
DTSTAMP:20260606T115615
CREATED:20230804T170511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230807T145232Z
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SUMMARY:Writers-in-Residence Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, October 1\, 4:00-5:15pm  on Zoom\, for a reading by the nine emerging writers who received residencies in our collaborative program with Edith Wharton’s The Mount last March. They will be joined by Straw Dog Writers Guild’s Emerging Writer Fellow who spent a week at The Mount with the last cohort of writers in residence. Each reader will have a few minutes to share some of their work in progress with us\, and then they will have a conversation about the impact of the residencies and their time at The Mount. \nThe 2023 Writers-in-Residence include Cat Wei\, Emily Atkinson\, Emily Kiernan\, Katherine Easer\, Keeonna Harris\, Lindsay Rockwell\, Mario Giannone\, Martha Pham\, Parvati Ramchandani\, and Emerging Writer Fellow Regine Jackson. \nPlease invite your friends. Register HERE. \n  \nBios: \nCAT WEI is a poet working in healthcare in Brooklyn\, New York; she is an active advocate for poetry in her community as the organizer of East Village Poetry Salon\, a reading series that centers on female\, queer\, and trans poets of color. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award\, an Idyllwild Writers Week Fellow\, and Tin House Workshop alumni. Wei’s writing was Best of the Net nominated and appears in Gulf Coast\, Vagabond City\, Sundog Lit\, and Lantern Review. \n  \nEMILY ATKINSON is a writer and public defender born and raised in Illinois; she earned her MFA in Playwriting from Smith College and a J.D. and M.A. in English Literature from Boston University. She is currently working on a novel workshopped at the Colgate Writers’ Workshop\, two Tin House Summer Workshops\, and a Tin House Winter Workshop. Atkinson’s published work appears in Electric Literature\, PopMatters\, and HuffPost. She lives in western Massachusetts with her dog\, Marlowe. \n  \nEMILY KIERNAN is the author of the novel\, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press). Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction\, Pank\, The Collagist\, Redivider\, Quarterly West\, X-R-A-Y\, and numerous other journals. She has received support from MacDowell\, The Ucross Foundation\, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Tin House Summer Workshop\, and The Community of Writers. She holds an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and serves as a prose editor at Noemi Press. \n  \nKATHERINE EASER was born in Kansas City\, Kansas\, the daughter of a Chinese mother from Taiwan and an American father of European ancestry. After earning a BA from Smith College\, she studied creative writing in The Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. In 2011\, her young adult novel\, Vicious Little Darlings\, was published by Bloomsbury. Her short story\, “Parade of Cats\,” a third-place winner in Glimmer Train’s 2017 Fiction Open\, appeared in the magazine’s Winter 2018 issue. She lives and writes in Los Angeles. \n  \nKEEONNA HARRIS is a writer\, storyteller\, mother of five\, and prison abolitionist. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University. Her dissertation\, “Everybody Survived but Nobody Survived: Black Feminism\, Motherhood\, and Mass Incarceration\,” used ethnography and autoethnography to document the experiences of Black mothers navigating the process of visitation and incarceration. Her memoir\, Mainline Mama\, forthcoming in 2024 from Amistad Press\, draws from her experiences as a Black woman\, a teen mother\, and twenty years of raising children with an incarcerated partner\, building community in the borderlands of the prison. An excerpt from her memoir is available on Salon.com. \nLINDSAY ROCKWELL is poet-in-residence for the Episcopal Church of Connecticut and hosts their Poetry and Social Justice Dialogue series. She’s published\, or forthcoming in\, BlazeVOX\, Connecticut River Review\, Amethyst Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, and Willawaw\, among others. Her first collection of poems\, GHOST FIRES\, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag press in spring/summer 2023. She won first prize in the October Project Poetry Contest and 81st Moon Prize from Writing in a Woman’s Voice. Lindsay holds a Master of Dance and Choreography from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts and is an oncologist. \n  \nMARIO GIANNONE received a Bachelor’s in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Giannone served as an assistant fiction editor for Epoch Magazine and taught creative writing and composition for Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English and the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. He teaches writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Giannone’s short fiction appears in Third Coast\, Indiana Review\, and Blue Mesa Review\, and his story “Heaven is a Disk\,” published in Indiana Review\, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nMARTHA PHAM is a writer from Massachusetts. A 2022 Tin House Scholar\, she holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an incoming writer-in-residence at the The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Residency Program and soon after the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts where she will tend to a novel-in-progress. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature\, Nurture\, Serious Eats and elsewhere. Find her at marthapham.com \n  \nPARVATI RAMCHANDANI is a recently retired physician looking forward to bringing long-stalled writing projects to fruition. She has published short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces in literary magazines\, including Peregrine\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, and Bucks County Writer. Ramchandani won an award from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts for fiction writing. Two of her creative nonfiction pieces relating to her work as a physician are slated for publication in an anthology of writings by Women Physicians titled This Side of Doctoring (Eliza Chin\, MD\, and Anju Goel\, Eds.)\, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. \n  \nREGINE JACKSON is a black writer born and raised in Springfield\, MA. Being an avid reader since she was a child\, Jackson always wished to bring all the elements of her imagination to life\, specifically stories where the main characters looked like her and the majority of the people around her. While not having any of her works professionally published (so far)\, Jackson is currently working on two YA horror novels\, as well as taking the tentative steps to create a dark fantasy/horror trilogy series. While Jackson mainly writes within the science-fiction\, horror\, and fantasy genres\, she has also taken on writing prose and poetry revolving around her life living in an inner city. Thankful for the opportunities being the 2022 Straw Dog Writers’ Guild recipient has presented to her\, she hopes to not only hone her own craft but to bring more creative work to her city and encourage more BIPOC women to write their truths.” Find her at reginejackson.com
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in September
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, September 21\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Tommy Twilite (aka Thomas Clark)\, a poet\, songwriter and performer who lives in Florence MA. He is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society\, and the Executive Editor of Silkworm. Tommy is the current Beat Poet Laureate of Massachusetts and the host of the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ-FM Valley Free Radio. His first full length collection\, Fifty Words for Rain was published in 2021. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-september-2
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:A Writer's Night in July
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, July 20\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Howie Faerstein. Howie is the author of 5 books (Play a Song on the Drums He Said\, Out of Order\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, Googootz and Other Poems and STAY). His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals. A multiple Pushcart nominee\, Cutthroat Discovery Poet\, & recipient of the NOVA 2022 poetry prize\, he’s co-poetry editor of Cutthroat & lives in Florence\, MA. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-july-2
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:Poetry Ritual 2023
DESCRIPTION:On July 13 at 6:30pm join 15 poets from the Poetry Critique Meet-up for a group reading\, hosted by Michael Favala Goldman. Each poet gets five minutes\, for a varied and moving experience. Free. Request the zoom link by emailing poetryritual2023@gmail.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-ritual-2023
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in June
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center are pleased to present Gary Metras\, Easthampton’s first Poet Laureate and author of twenty-one collections of poetry. Join us on Thursday\, June 15 from 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center. \nGary’s latest book\, Vanishing Points\, was selected as a Must Read 2022 Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. His essays\, reviews\, and poems have appeared in over 300 journals ranging from Boston Review of Books to American Angler\, the Connecticut Poetry Review\, and Yankee Magazine. He has taught high school and college\, is a master printer specializing in hand-crafted limited editions of poetry and has two books of poems inspired by his experiences fly fishing. He is past president of Pioneer Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-june
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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