• Inaugural Open Mic in partnership with The Mount and the Dean’s Beans Coffee Truck

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

    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! The Guild is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, and we invite fifteen writers to read. If you want to 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

  • 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