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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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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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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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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:MA
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-in-residence-reading
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T184500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in June
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Shanta Lee Gander 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. \nBio: Shanta Lee is also the author of the poetry collection\, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues\, winner of the 2020 Diode Press full-length book prize and the 2021 Vermont Book Award. Black Metamorphoses\, 2023\, has been named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson prize\, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho poetry prize. Shanta Lee is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors. Her work within the humanities includes Shanta Lee giving lectures on the life of Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821) — considered the first known African-American poet in English literature — as a member of the Vermont and New Hampshire Humanities Council Speakers Bureaus. Shanta Lee also serves on the advisory for Jay Craven’s film\, Lost Nation which prominently features the life of Lucy Terry Prince. She is also a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Her contributing work on several investigative journalism pieces for The Commons received a number of New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) awards. Shanta Lee teaches poetry at Wilkes University and media studies at The Putney School. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, an MBA from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree in Women\, Gender and Sexuality from Trinity College.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-3
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:20230518T184500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in May
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Beth Filson. Join us on Thursday\, May 18 from 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center.. Beth is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop\, local bookseller\, writer and self-taught artist. While her background is in poetry\, she’s devoted a good chunk of the last ten years completing her first novel. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Meat for Tea\, and others. Beth was the 2015 winner of the Wild Light Poetry contest featured by Red Hen Press and the Los Angeles Review. Her art has appeared on the cover of The Florida Review and most recently was included in a show at the Hosmer Gallery\, most recently. Beth says\, “Coming back to my writing after so many long years without it is proof of the indestructibility of hope and dreams.” \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-may
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:20230420T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T194500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in April
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild present writer\, linguist\, and humorist Alexis Johnson. Co-founder of the much acclaimed International Language Institute\, for over forty years Lexi has taught Spanish\, Italian\, Esperanto\, Catalan as well as Arabic and Chinese. Her first book\, Playing With a Full Deck\, is a (mostly) humorous look at life. At present she is working on two books: I Was Going to Write a Book but I Forgot What I Wanted to Say\, a story about caring for her mother with dementia. The second book is Dancing with Words\, informative and humorous essays on language. Lexi is a graduate of Georgetown University\, a master Language Trainer\, and former commissioner for the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training.\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or tell the person at the desk you’re going to “A Writer’s Night.”\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-april
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:20230402T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230402T140000
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SUMMARY:Author Showcase at Word Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for our 9-1/2th Annual Author Showcase at Word Fest* on April 2\, 2023 1:00-2:00pm at the Gateway City Arts\, 92 Race Street\, Holyoke\, MA. Featured authors are: Lindsay Rockwell\, D. Dina Friedman\, Michael Favala Goldman. Kelsey Socha. Grant Carrington\, and Ellen Meeropol. \n* The Entire Word Fest event runs from 10-5. See schedule HERE. \n  \n  \n  \n  \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 is forthcoming in\, CALYX\, Gargoyle\, River Heron Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, among others. Her collection GHOST FIRES is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Press\, spring/summer ’23. She’s received writing fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild/Edith Wharton The Mount. Lindsay holds a Master of Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and is an oncologist. \nD. Dina Friedman has published in many literary journals and received two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two YA novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux)\, and one book of poetry\, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press). Her short story collection\, Immigrants\, will be published by Creators Press in Fall 2023. To learn more about Dina\, visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com and subscribe to her blog on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at ddinafriedman.substack.com. \nMichael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is an award-winning poet\, jazz clarinetist\, and translator of Danish literature. Michael’s five books of original poetry include Small Sovereign\, which took first place at the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. He has been running poetry critique groups since 2018. MORE \n  \nKelsey Socha once wrote and staged a performance piece about lobsters before subsequently quitting theatre to become a librarian. She is originally from Kalamazoo\, Michigan\, but now lives in western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats. \n  \n  \nGrant Carrington is the author of 4 sci fi books from Brief Candle Press of Beaverton\, Ore.\, 2 CDs of original songs\, 5 plays given full productions\, and 40-50 published stories\, mostly sci fi (one of which was a Nebula finalist). Member Clarion 68-69\, Tulane 71. Associate Editor Amazing/Fantastic 1972-74\, Contributing Editor Eternity 1977-79. Computer programmer for Goddard Space Flight Center\, the US Navy\, University of Florida\, Savannah River Ecology Lab\, Westinghouse\, and the US Treasury Department. BA (NYU) and MA (Univ. of Fla.) in mathematics. \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novels The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest\, and guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and short story publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Guernica\, and The Boston Globe. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Prize\, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and a Group Reads selection of the Women’s National Book Association. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and coordinator of the revived WriteAngles Writers Conference.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/author-showcase-at-word-fest
LOCATION:Gateway City Arts\, 92-114 Race Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T184500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in March
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers’ Guild are proud to present “A Writer’s Night” with award winning poet Joshua Michael Stewart\, author of three poetry collections: Break Every String\, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums\, and Love Something. His poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review\, Salamander\, Plainsongs\, Brilliant Corners\, South Dakota Review\, and many other publications. He lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. \nStewart writes with a clarity of image and pacing which allows joining his pain\, anecdotes\, celebrations and humor to feel irresistible and welcome. Reading Love Something is as natural as curiosity and says love all you are able. ~Jody (Pamela) Stewart\, author of Infrequent Mysteries\, The Red Window & Ghost Farm. \nJoin us on Thursday\, March 16\, 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center. You may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or tell the person at the desk you’re going to “A Writer’s Night.” The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow (Note: this event was rescheduled from January.)
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-march
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out March
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 7\, 7-9pm at Forbes Library for Writers Night Out with featured writer and poet Gail Thomas. \nNOTE: WNO has moved to Forbes Library at 20 West St\, Northampton\, MA for this March event. Parking is available at the library. \nNo registration required. \nBio: Gail Thomas has published six books\, most recently Trail of Roots and Leaving Paradise. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Among her awards are the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press\, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review\, the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read”\, the Quartet Journal’s Editor’s Choice Prize\, and Seven Kitchen Press’s chapbook award. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross\, and several poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry with Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops\, visits schools and libraries with her therapy dog\, and works with immigrant and refugee communities in Western Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-march
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:20230216T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T194500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in February
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Rick Paar on Thursday\, February 16\, from 6:45pm-7:45pm. (Please note that Beth Filson needed to cancel and so Rick Paar is graciously stepping in.) \nRick Paar is the author of God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go. He is also a psychologist who chaired the Department of Psychology at Springfield College where he taught courses in counseling and psychotherapy. He served on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. His stories have been published in Meat for Tea\, Blue Nib\, Aethelon\, Voices\, Psychotherapy Patient\, and The International Journal of Play among others. He has been a columnist for three newspapers/journals and is on the board of Straw Dogs Writers Guild. His academic writing has appeared in a variety of journals with topics ranging from the metaphysical\, to play and creativity. He is currently working on his next book. \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-february
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:20230121T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T150000
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SUMMARY:Comes the Dark Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Come share winter and darkness-themed poems. This can be your own work or favorite poems by others.\nHerbal brews and treats will be provided.\nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room in Ashfield\, MA. (Main Street/Rt 116) on Saturday\, January 21\, from 1:30-3:00pm. Registration requested. Call 413-628-4414 or email bmlashfield@gmail.com.\nFacilitated by Poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building. Sponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/comes-the-dark-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T102956
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230102T191257Z
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SUMMARY:9th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books
DESCRIPTION:9th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books \nJoin us on Wednesday\, January 18\, 2023 via Zoom from 6:30-8:00pm. Register HERE for this online event. \nBrief readings from new books by members of Straw Dog Writers Guild: Steven D. Brewer\, Audrey Child\, Roxanne E. Bogart\, Martha McCollough\, Rick Paar\, Bela Breslau\, Sharon Tracey\, Cheryl J. Fish\, Heather Kamins\, Joshua Michael Stewart. \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Forbes Library. \n  \n  \nAuthors Reading:\nSteven D. Brewer teaches scientific writing and scientific instrument creation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His series “Better Angels” and “Revin’s Heart” are being published by Water Dragon Publishing. As an author\, Brewer identifies diverse obsessions that underlie his writing: deep interests in natural history\, life science\, and environmentalism; an abiding passion for languages; a fascination with Japanese culture; and a mania for information technology and the Internet. Brewer lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts with his extended family. \nAfter being a full-time mom and wife for many years and a small business owner and photographer in Ireland\, Audrey Child returned to the US and started Loose Ends\, doing “Business Housekeeping for Elders.” In her later years she also began to write: stories of her childhood\, her family and the small town where she grew up. Those stories\, and a lot of therapy\, helped her come to terms with her early years. Over Home is the result of that process. \nRoxanne E. Bogart is a wildlife biologist and writer\, whose poems have appeared in The Tiny Seed Literary Journal\, The Burlington Poetry Journal\, The Silkworm\, and Poetry Quarterly. Her first full-length book of poetry is entitled All That Sustains\, published by Off the Common Books. She is a member of the International League of Conservation Writers\, the Academy of American Poets\, Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and the Florence Poets Society\, and lives in Amherst\, MA with her family. \nMartha McCollough lives in Amherst\, MA. She is the author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry Review Books 2022). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Qwerty\, The Bear Review\, Radar Poetry\, and Tampa Review\, among others. She lives in Amherst\, MA \nRick Paar is a psychologist who writes novels\, short stories\, essays\, and creative nonfiction. He lives in Western Massachusetts. He has two grown children\, Nick and Chelsea\, and a grandson\, Wyatt. \nBela Breslau is part of a writing team with her husband\, Stephen Billias. Theirs is a “literary marriage!” They recently published Pilgrim Maya\, a novel about a young woman who\, after suffering a devastating loss\, transcends her grief and embarks on a life of recovery and healing. They are currently working on a fantasy novel together. Stephen has been a published creative writer for more than 40 years. Bela is working on short stories and continuing with a non-fiction project about her father\, inspired by interviews and family stories. \nSharon Tracey lives and writes in Amherst\, Massachusetts and is the author of three poetry collections: Land Marks (Shanti Arts 2022)\, Chroma: Five Centuries of Women Artists (Shanti Arts 2020)\, and What I Remember Most is Everything (All Caps Publishing 2017). Her poems have appeared in Radar Poetry\, Lily Poetry Review\, Aji\, Terrain.org\, The Banyan Review\, The Ekphrastic Review\, and elsewhere. She previously served as a director of research communications and environmental programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \nCheryl J. Fish’s debut novel Off the Yoga Mat\, the story of three characters coming-of-middle age\, was published by Livingston Press/UWA. She is the author of The Sauna is Full of Maids\, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture\, the natural world\, and friendships\, and Crater & Tower\, poems reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens Volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11. Fish has been a Fulbright professor and is a co-editor of A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. \nHeather Kamins is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and her short fiction has appeared in Guernica and elsewhere. The Moth Girl is her first novel. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband\, two cats\, and the variety of woodland creatures who stroll through her yard. \nJoshua Michael Stewart is the author of three poetry collections: Break Every String\, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums\, and Love Something. His poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review\, Salamander\, Plainsongs\, Brilliant Corners\, South Dakota Review\, Permafrost\, and many others. He lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. \nRead these authors’ books!\n  
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/9th-annual-author-showcase-a-celebration-of-members-books
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out January
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, January 3\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Rick Paar. \nBig Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Rick Paar is the author of God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go. He is also a psychologist who chaired the Department of Psychology at Springfield College where he taught courses in counseling and psychotherapy. He served on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. His stories have been published in Meat for Tea\, Blue Nib\, Aethelon\, Voices\, Psychotherapy Patient\, and The International Journal of Play among others. He has been a columnist for three newspapers/journals and is on the board of Straw Dogs Writers Guild. His academic writing has appeared in a variety of journals with topics ranging from the metaphysical\, to play and creativity. He is currently working on his next book.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-january
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T184500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in December
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild present “A Writer’s Night” with Gail Thomas on Thursday\, December 15 from 6:45-7:45pm. Her new books of poetry are Trail of Roots\, winner of the A.V. Christie award\, and Leaving Paradise. She has published four other books and her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Her awards include the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy\, Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read” for Waving Back. She teaches poetry for Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops\, and volunteers resettling refugees from Afghanistan and visiting libraries with her “Reading Buddy” therapy dog\, Sunny.\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or tell the person at the desk you’re going to “A Writer’s Night.”\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-december
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings
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SUMMARY:A Writer’s Night in November
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild are delighted to present “A Writer’s Night” with poet and memoirist Stephanie Shafran on Thursday\, November 17 from 6:45-7:45pm. \nAwakening\, Stephanie’s chapbook\, was published in 2020. Her work has appeared in journals such as Earth’s Daughters\, Slant\, Persimmon Tree\, and Silkworm. Anthologies featuring Stephanie’s writing include A 21st Century Plague: Pandemic Poetry\, published in 2021\, and Compass Roads\, published in 2018. Please come and hear this terrific writer read from her work\, speak about creating poems\, and learn how she made the transition from school counselor to poet. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or tell the person at the desk you’re going to “A Writer’s Night.”\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings
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SUMMARY:Calling Straw Dog Authors for the 9th Annual Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Calling Straw Dog authors with books published in the last year\nStraw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library invite Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book published in 2022 to read as part of the 2023 annual Author Showcase. If interested in being part of the Showcase\, please indicate your interest by emailing strawdogsubmission@gmail.com. \nThe deadline to express interest is midnight December 11th. We will let authors know by December 16th. Authors will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. \nTen readers will have five minutes each to read from their work. If we’re in person\, you will have a chance to sell your books\, and if on Zoom\, we can put links to your books in the chat. \nOnce chosen\, you will then need to provide a brief bio and photograph for publicity and Showcase program. \n9th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books\n6:30 – 8:00 p.m.\, Wednesday\, January 18\, 2023\nForbes Library and/or on Zoom (tbd)
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/calling-straw-dog-authors-for-the-9th-annual-author-showcase
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T184500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in October
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and the Longmeadow Adult Center present poet\, actor\, comedian\, Chris O’Carroll\, Thursday\, October 20 from 6:45-7:45pm. \nChris was a virtually unknown stand-up comic in the year 2000 when he self-published Take These Rhymes . . Please: Rude Limericks and Other Crimes Against Literature and began hawking that volume after the show at comedy clubs. From toking on limericks\, it was a short step to mainlining sonnets\, and he quickly became a virtually unknown poet. Chris has been Light magazine’s featured poet\, and his work also appears in New York City Haiku\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, Extreme Sonnets\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, among other collections.  He is the author of two books of poems\, The Joke’s on Me and Abracadabratude. He is also a member of Actors Equity\, whose favorite stage roles have included Frank in Educating Rita\, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet\, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol\, and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh. \nLongmeadow Adult Center is located at 231 Maple Road. Admission is free.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-october
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T133000
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SUMMARY:Fall Harvest Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 1\, from 1:30-3:00pm for a Fall Harvest Poetry Share. We will circle up and share autumn-themed poems at Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. This can be your own work or favorite work by others. Weather permitting\, we will be outside under a tent. Refreshments will be provided. (Arianna\, your SDWG admin\, always brings a sampling of her wild-crafted herbal teas.)\nThe Library is located at: 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis is event is co-facilitated by Belding Memorial Library\, Offerings for Community Building\,  and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nTo register for this free program contact Belding Memorial Library:\n413-628-4414 bmlashfield@gmail.com \nThis free program is brought to you with grant funding. American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/fall-harvest-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Share,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T200000
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SUMMARY:Valley Society: Black Writers of the Pioneer Valley
DESCRIPTION:Join Valley Society\, a program of SDWG\, and the Leverett Library for Black Writers of the Pioneers Valley on Tuesday\, September 27 at 6:30pm for a literary reading of poetry\, fiction\, and works in progress by three local authors. \nRegine Jackson is a Straw Dog Writer’s Guild Fellow who writes poetry and Young Adult fantasy\, science fiction\, and horror. \nDashaun Washington is a poet and teacher at the UMass Writing Program. Look for his work in Poetry Magazine\, The Nation\, and American Poetry Review. \nChristopher Sparks is a writer and Founder of the Valley Society and is committed to building a safe space for black writers to focus on their craft. \nPlease come to this in-person reading and learn more about this vibrant local community. \nThis program is supported in part by a grant from the Leverett Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, a state agency. \nQuestions contact: leverettlibrary@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/valley-society-black-writers-of-the-pioneer-valley
LOCATION:Leverett Library\, 75 Montague Rd\, Montague\, MA
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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