• A Writer’s Night in September

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

    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. Suzanne 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 Read More

  • Straw Dog Writers Guild 15th Anniversary Celebration & Reading

    The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

      Join 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 Read More

  • Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

    Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

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    Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom. Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com Format Focus: EVERYONE READS! Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt. Read a 3-minute piece Brief positive responses after readers share Listeners Read More

  • Equinox Potluck & Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Bring poetry (your work or work by others) and a dish to celebrate summer's harvest. What 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 Read More

  • Open Mic at ARToberFEST in Westfield

    Ray Ray's Cafe 2-3 Main St, Westfield, MA

    Join your fellow writers for an open mic at Ray Ray's Cafe in Westfield during ARToberFESTIVAL! Poet and translator Michael Favala Goldman will MC the even. Bring three minutes of your best writing to share!