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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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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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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Doug Anderson 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. \nDoug Anderson has published four books of poetry. The Moon Reflected Fire won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He has been awarded grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and has received two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent books are Horse Medicine from Barrow Street\, and Undress\, She Said from Four Way Books. His fifth book\, The Wind Made a Harp of the Pines\, is forthcoming from Nine Mile. His poems have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Massachusetts Review\, Field\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, and many other literary magazines. He has written plays and fiction and published numerous critical pieces in the New York Times Book Review\, the Boston Globe\, and the London Times Literary Supplement. He is a photographer and teacher and lives in Ashfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday April 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Diana Whitney 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. \nDiana Whitney writes across genres with a focus on feminism\, motherhood\, and sexuality. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves (2021)\, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award. Her essays\, poetry\, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times\, Glamour\, the Kenyon Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and elsewhere. She has received numerous grants for her writing\, including from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council. Her first book\, Wanting It\, won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. A feminist activist in her hometown and beyond\, Diana lives in Vermont with her family and works as an editor and writing coach.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-7
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday March 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg 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. \nChaya Grossberg is a life-long poet\, non-fiction writer and an advocate for those harmed by psychiatry. She has been writing and sharing poetry for three decades\, participating and hosting open mics from coast to coast\, NYC to San Francisco\, Portland\, OR\, Olympia WA\, and here in the Valley. She is passionate about poetry and spoken word\, opening space for expression for those who have been silenced by psychiatry. Her popular book Freedom From Psychiatric Drugs has great reviews on Amazon. She recently published a poetry book\, “Reborn: Poetic Codes for Psychiatric Survivors”.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-6
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in February
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday February 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Alexis Johnson at Forbes Library. In addition to reading from Playing With A Full Deck\, she’ll also read from her new books Dancing with Words and I Wanted to Write a Book but Forgot What I Wanted to Say. \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. \nAlexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years. Before that\, she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years. Playing With A Full Deck is a wry look at her experiences. Her two new books are Dancing with Words and I Wanted to Write a Book but Forgot What I Wanted to Say.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-february-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in January
DESCRIPTION:WNO CANCELLED! Due to inclement weather SDWG is cancelling Writers Night Out for this evening. Stay home. Stay safe.\nWe will reschedule Cherryl Jensen for another month. \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. \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. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-january
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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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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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in November
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Richard Michelson 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:RICHARD 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. Michelson’s children’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  Michelson 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.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joan Livingston 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: Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers\, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series\, which will have the seventh\, Missing the Deadline\, released by darkstroke books later this year. Her most recent release is Northern Comfort\, set like most of her books\, including The Sacred Dog and Northern Comfort\, in the fictional hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. She is currently writing a sequel to The Sacred Dog called the Unforgiving Town. She relies on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts\, where she lives and once covered as a long-time journalist\, to create realistic characters and settings.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in August
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D.K. McCutchen 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: D.K. McCutchen lives on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi. Publications include LGBTQIA-friendly gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction\, JELLYFISH DREAMING (JFD)\, winner of the 2022 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize with publication in the US & UK. WHALE ROAD\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book & Pushcart nominee about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific\, also has an update forthcoming with JackLeg Press Oct. 16\, 2023. She’s published short work in Fourth Genre\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Rosebud\, Identity Theory\, LCRW and others\, and is currently working on JFD’s companion novel ICE\, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-august-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in July
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 11\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer  Anne Pinkerton at Forbes Library. NOTE the date change due to the July 4 holiday. \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: Anne Pinkerton studied poetry at Hampshire College and received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University. Her writing often focuses on making sense of challenging life experiences; significant themes include loss\, illness\, grief\, and coping. She has been published in Modern Loss\, Hippocampus Magazine\, The Bark\, the anthology The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink\, and elsewhere. Pinkerton lives in western Massachusetts where she works as a marketing communications professional.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-july
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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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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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Simon Hunt  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: Simon Hunt lives in Ashburnham\, Massachusetts\, after having lived in Monterey\, California\, for 20 years and Las Vegas\, Nevada\, for three years. He has been a teacher for more than three decades\, predominantly in California and predominantly at the high school level. Simon’s poems have been published widely in print and online journals. 2018 saw the publication of his first collection of poems\, Lesser Magi\, and in 2019 his first play\, “Re-run\,” was performed. Simon was born in what is now Zimbabwe and also lived in South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the USA during his childhood. The father of two\, he served the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel\, California\, as a volunteer tour docent and trustee for over a decade. A second collection of his poems\, Endlings\, is scheduled for publication in 2023.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out April
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, April 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Stewart at our NEW HOME: 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: Joshua 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. www.joshuamichaelstewart.com \n*Straw Dog Writers Guild is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Forbes Library. Beginning in April\, Forbes Library became the official home of Writers Night Out\, meeting upstairs in the Coolidge Room. On the first Tuesday of every month\, we will offer the same opportunity for writers to share five minutes of their work during Open Mic\, followed by a presentation by a recently published Featured Reader. We needed to alter our meeting time to coincide with the Forbes Library. We will begin at 6 and end at 8PM. \nForbes Library is truly a supportive partner for writers. Many of us have made use of their resources for research and pleasure\, found a quiet nook to write in\, or joined with the Writing Room on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Now we can add Writers Night Out to the generous support of our beloved community library. Thank you\, Forbes!”
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-april
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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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:20230103T190000
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:20221206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out December
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 6\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Favala Goldman. Big 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. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Michael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is an award-winning poet and translator of Danish literature. His work has appeared in scores of publications including The New Yorker\, Rattle\, and The Harvard Review. Michael’s translation of Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen made the New York Times Best 10 Books of 2021 as book three of The Copenhagen Trilogy. His poetry collection\, Small Sovereign\, won first place in the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. This May Sound Familiar is his fifth poetry collection. He lives in Northampton\, MA\, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018. https://michaelfavalagoldman.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-december
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out November
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 1\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ellen Meeropol. Big 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. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Ellen 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\, the play Gridlock\, and is guest editor for the new anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Recent essay publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, Guernica\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize\, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association. Ellen is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-november
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 4\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Janet E. Aalfs. Big 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. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Janet E. Aalfs’ 3rd full-length collection of poems\, What the Dead Want Me to Know\, appeared in April 2022 (Human Error Publishing). She is the author of several chapbooks\, and her writing is widely published in journals\, anthologies\, and online sites. Janet enjoys sharing movement/poetry pieces she calls Poemotion©.  A 7th degree black belt\, master Taiji/Qigong instructor\, founder of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron’s Bridge/VWMA\, and former poet laureate\, she has been offering integrative arts education locally\, nationally\, and internationally since 1977.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-2
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in September
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 6\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer and SDWG Emerging Writer Fellow Regine Jackson. Big 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. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Regine Jackson is a 25-year-old writer\, born and raised in Springfield\, Massachusetts. 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.\nWhile 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.”
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-september
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out August
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 2\, 7-9pm at our new WNO home at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chris O’Carroll. \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. \nNo registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. \nBio: Chris O’Carroll has been a Light magazine featured poet\, and frequently contributes topical satire to that journal’s “Poems of the Week.” His work has also appeared in New York City Haiku\, Extreme Sonnets\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, among other collections. Chris is a member of Actor’s Equity\, and has performed widely as a stand-up comedian. He is the author of two books of poems\, The Joke’s on Me\, which appeared in 2019\, and the newly published Abracadabratude.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-august-2
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220705T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out July
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 5th from 7-9pm at our NEW WNO HOME at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Kevin O’Hara. \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. \nBio: Kevin O’Hara\, a retired RN following a 30-year career at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield\, MA\, is the proud recipient of the 2012 John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Award for his first two books\, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims\, and. A Lucky Irish Lad. In addition\, Kevin is a longtime columnist for The Berkshire Eagle\, and the 2020 Writer-in-Residence at Herman Melville’s farmhouse\, Arrowhead.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-july
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out June
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 7 from 7-9pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Magdalena Gómez at the Michelson Gallery in Northampton\, MA. This is the first in-person WNO since spring of 2020. So let’s celebrate in gratitude of being able to get back together and see and listen to one another in-person! \nBio: Magdalena Gómez is Poet Laureate of Springfield\, MA\, where she co-founded Teatro V!da\, a performing arts collective; she is also an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, the author of Shameless Woman (Red Sugarcane Press) and the co-editor of Bullying: Replies\, Rebuttals\, Confessions\, and Catharsis (Skyhorse\, 2012). In 2019 she received the Latinas 50 Plus Literature Award at Fordham University\, and the Latinx Excellence on the Hill Award from the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus of MA at the State House. The nationally acclaimed musical\, Dancing in My Cockroach Killers\, based on a dozen of her poems\, has been performed in Los Angeles\, DC\, Massachusetts\, and Off-Broadway in New York City. Her memoir noir\, from which she will be reading this evening\, Mi’ja was released in May of this year\, by Heliotrope Books in New York City. You can visit Magdalena at www.latinapoet.com \nExciting news: The Michelson Gallery is donating 20% of all purchases on June 7th to Straw Dog Writers Guild for our annual fundraiser. If you’ve been thinking of buying art from Michelson’s\, June 7th is the time. And come to our first in-person Writers Night Out! \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-june
LOCATION:Michelson Gallery\, 132 Main St\, Northampton\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out 10th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Our fundraiser is the perfect way to celebrate yourself and those you love\nwhile supporting the Straw Dog Writers Guild.\n\n\nWriters Night Out is 10 years old! Help celebrate this literary birthday during the May 3 WHO by participating in our annual fundraiser for Straw Dog Writers Guild\nOur goal is $25\,000. In 2020\, we raised $22\,000 and at the urging of friends and supporters\, we increased our goal.\nWe founded WNO as a way for all writers to meet\, make new friends\, support each other\, share our writing\, and hear the recent work of a local\, published author. The pandemic has been hard on everyone and it kept us physically apart\, but we have flourished on Zoom. Getting back together again is our highest priority and we will soon share news about our June WNO that will be in person! Stay tuned. \nThere are several ways we can reach our $25\,000 goal: \n\nWatch the Straw Dog newsletter\, website and other social media for photos and messages from fellow writers on how Straw Dog has made a difference for them.\nJoin us live from 6:30-6:55 p.m. on May 3 for “Wine and Chocolate with the Founders and MCs of WNO.” (You’ll have to bring your own wine and chocolate). Register HERE\nStay for the Writers Night In Open Mic with Featured Reader Rebecca Olander. If you want an opportunity to read simply stay on the call. Or\, if you are just joining in for Open Mic\, register HERE (same link for both pre-event & WNO.)\nMake your donation a gift to a friend or yourself. You can also donate a membership to someone to Straw Dog for only $50.\nDonate anytime for any reason HERE. And if you prefer to write us a check you can. Make check payable to: Straw Dog Writers Guild   Mail to: 43 Fairview Ave.\, Northampton\, MA 01060    memo line: WNO Fundraiser\nBut you don’t have to wait until May 3rd. Donate now HERE and it will count toward our goal.\nHelp us spread the word about Straw Dog Writers Guild and WNO. Share this newsletter and\, when photos and quotes from Straw Dog writers pop up on Facebook or Instagram\, be sure to like and share them.\nA community member has donated a $5000 matching challenge and has extended this offer through June 7. So double your dollars now!\nThe Michelson Gallery is donating 20% of all purchases on June 7th to Straw Dog Writers Guild for our annual fundraiser. If you’ve been thinking of buying art from Michelson’s\, June 7th is the time.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-10th-anniversary-fundraiser
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In December
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday\, December 7\, 7:00pm. Our featured writer is Justine Dymond. \nRegister in advance for this meeting: Register HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email (within 24 – 48 hours) containing information about joining the meeting. For security purposes\, all attendees must register via this link. Names not on the registration list will not be admitted at the time of the event. \nJustine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press\, 2021) won the Eludia Award from Hidden Rivers Arts. Other honors include an O. Henry Prize\, Pushcart nominations\, Mass Cultural Council 2020 Artist Fellowship finalist grant\, and second place in the New South 2017 prose writing contest judged by Porochista Khakpour. She co-edited Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives (Demeter Press\, 2013) and teaches writing and literature at Springfield College.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-december
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In September 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday\, September\, 7:00pm. Registration required. Register HERE. Our featured writer is Lanette Sweeney. If you have any trouble registering\, contact Beth at: strawdogevents@gmail.com \nLanette Sweeney’s debut collection\, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir About Losing A Child to Addiction\, is being published by Kentucky-based Finishing Line Press in August of 2021. The book is divided into the stages of grief and features alongside her own poems 20 poems by Sweeney’s late son\, Kyle Fisher-Hertz\, who died of an overdose five years ago at the age of 26. Sweeney has two messages she hopes to share with the collection: first\, that medication-assisted treatment saves addicts lives and should not be stigmatized\, and second\, that all of us can go on to have lives rich with joy and peace\, even after surviving the most tragic losses. Sweeney’s work has been featured in many publications\, including Rattle\, Blue Collar Review\, Please See Me\, Amethyst Review\, Silkworm (the annual publication of the Florence Poets Society\, of which she is a member)\, and in several editions of McGraw Hill’s popular Women’s Studies anthology Women: Images and Reality. Sweeney has worked as a college teacher of writing and Women’s Studies at SUNY New Paltz\, where she earned her degrees in Women’s Studies and English Literature\, and as a college fund-raiser for Hampshire College. She also cocktail waitressed\, sold real estate\, and served as a United Way vice president. She is now a full-time writer thanks to her wife’s support.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-september-2021
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In July
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday\, July 6\, 7:00pm. Registration required. Click HERE to register. Our featured writer is JoAnne Silver Jones. \nWriter Bio: In her first book\, a memoir\, Headstrong: Surviving a traumatic brain injury\, JoAnne Silver Jones tells of her journey from suffering an act of random violence that left her with a severe traumatic brain injury\, to the publication of her memoir\, at age 73\, and entry into the world of writing. She is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College\, an avid sports fan\, news junky\, ocean lover and dog worshiper. She and her wife divide their time between Santa Cruz\, California and Northampton\, MA. She continues to write and is waiting on her muse to guide her into her next book. \nVisit her at: https://joannejonesauthor.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-2
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In: April 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic on Tuesday\, April 6\, 7:00pm. To Register\, email wno@strawdogwriters.org to request the Zoom link. Include your first and last name and zip code. \nOur featured writer is Sharon Tracey. \nBio: Sharon Tracey is a poet and editor and author of two full-length poetry collections: Chroma: Five Centuries of Women Artists (Shanti Arts Publishing\, 2020) and What I Remember Most is Everything (All Caps Publishing\, 2017). In her newest book\, Chroma\, she takes the reader through a series of galleries inspired by the work of forty-seven women artists painting across five centuries as she explores what it means to be human\, a woman\, a creator. Her poems have also appeared in Terrain.org\, The Worcester Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Tule Review\, The Ekphrastic Review\, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Amherst\, Massachusetts. sharontracey.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-april-2021
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Feb 2\, 2021 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nLesléa Newman has created 75 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections “October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard” (novel-in-verse) and “I Carry My Mother” and “I Wish My Father” (both memoirs-in-verse). She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. From 2008 – 2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, MA. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-leslea-newman
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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