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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Floyd Cheung
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Jan 5\, 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!  \n\nFloyd Cheung is author of the chapbook Jazz at Manzanar (Finishing Line Press\, 2014). His poems have appeared in Love’s Executive Order\, Naugatuck River Review\, and other journals. His scholarly work focuses on the recovery and interpretation of lesser-known Asian American writers. He teaches in the Department of English and American Studies Program at Smith College\, where he also serves as Vice President for Equity and Inclusion. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-floyd-cheung
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In - Featured Reader Michael Goldman
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJuly 7 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm 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!  \nFeatured Reader – Michael Favala Goldman \nMichael Favala Goldman is a widely-published translator of Danish literature\, a poet and\na jazz clarinetist. Over 130 of Michael’s translations and poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review\, World Literature Today\, and The International Poetry Review. He has translated 15 books of Danish poetry and prose\, and he runs poetry workshops twice a month at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Michael published his first full-length book of poetry\, Who has time for this? It was published in March by Spuyten Duyvil Press.  \n\nHave you ever struggled to find time for discovery? Not only do these poems in Who has time for this not waste your time\, they open like windows\, both outward and inward. Each page shines light on the quirkiness of family\, love\, creativity\, and\, of course\, the passage of time.  \n\nAs a special offer\, Michael has signed copies available for $10 + shipping. Contact Michael by email: hammerandhorn@gmail.com – For other purchases go here or Amazon \nCheck out his web page to see a list of his many translations  – www.hammerandhorn.net
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-michael-goldman
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Luke Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJune 2 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The 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!  \n\nLuke Salisbury is the author of the cult classic The Answer Is Baseball\, and four works of fiction\, No Common War\, called “one of the best war novels in decades” by Forword Reviews\, The Cleveland Indian\, nominated for a Casey Award\, Blue Eden\, and Hollywood & Sunset\, which was selected as Book of the Year (Fiction 2006) by Online Review of Books & Current Affairs\, and won Best Historical Fiction 2006 from USABookNews.  He has taught Shakespeare at Bunker Hill Community College and is on the board of the Actors Shakespeare Project. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-luke-salisbury
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In! (online)- Featured Reader Lori Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nMarch 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday May 5th on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The 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\nFeatured Reader: Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter\, Salmon Poetry\, 2013\, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak\, Salmon Poetry\, 2016 and Keeping Planes in the Air\, Salmon 2020. Two chapbooks\, Inner Sky and typing with e.e. cummings\, are from Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and teaches in the Lesley University M.F.A. program. She edits Naugatuck River Review\, a journal of narrative poetry and Wordpeace.co\, an online journal dedicated to social justice. She lives and writes in Westfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-lori-desrosiers
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Andrea Hairston
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Hairston is a playwright and novelist. She is author of Will Do Magic For Small Change\, a finalist for the Mythopoeic\, Lambda\, and Tiptree Awards\, a Massachusetts Must Read\, and a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her other novels include: Redwood and Wildfire\, winner of the Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards\, and Mindscape\, winner of the Carl Brandon Award. Lonely Stardust\, a collection of essays and plays\, was published by Aqueduct press. Her play\, Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre\, appears in Geek Theater — 15 Plays by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. “Griots of the Galaxy\,” a short story\, appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future. A novelette\, “Saltwater Railroad\,” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. Her next novel\, Master of Poisons\, will be published by Tor/Macmillan in 2020. In her spare time\, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She bikes at night year round\, meeting bears\, multi-legged creatures of light and breath\, and the occasional shooting star.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-andrea-hairston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Marion VanArsdell
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Marion VanArsdell is an Early Childhood Special Educator and writer who taught in the Integrated Preschools in Northampton. She designed an intensive full-day program for children on the Autism Spectrum.  \n “I Teached Him to Talk”: Stories of Children with Autism is a collection of stories describing the progress children made in that model program. The book is a resource for families and teachers as they help children move from isolation to interaction. \nMarion is now a Special Education consultant and workshop presenter. She continues to write creative non-fiction and work on a historical fiction manuscript about the Underground Railroad.  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-marion-vanarsdell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n FEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\nAmy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,” 2018\, have been published through Human Error Press. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeatured Reader: Mary Clare Powell \nMary Clare Powell is a lifelong teacher\, retired professor at Lesley University\, and poet.  Her newest poetry book is Everyday Ecstasy\, a collection about aging (which we are all doing).  Growing older and its losses are here\, but so is whimsy\, joy\, and gratitude–pondering a brother’s death\, swimming in the river\, conversing with a GPS\, hanging up laundry.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nJuly 3\, 2018\n7-9pm \nThe Basement\n21 Center Street\nNorthampton\, MA \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joyce Hayden
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out – June 5 2018 \n \n  \nFeatured Writer: Joyce Hayden \nJoyce Hayden left her teaching position in the English Department at Westfield State University three years ago to pursue travel\, writing\, and painting. Since then she’s been across the US a couple times\, as well as France and Italy. She has published a chapbook of poems\,  \nLost Handprint with Dandelion Review\, held her first one-woman art exhibit at Sean-Christopher Gallery in Columbus\, OH\, and is now seeking a publisher for her completed memoir\, The Out of Body Girl. She writes a weekly Must Reads column at ROAR- Literature\, and Revolution for Feminist People. \n \nSee more of her writing and art on her website: Joycehayden.com \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \nFurther information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-joyce-hayden
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Kathy Ford
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Kathy Ford grew up in Rochester\, New York\, graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1980 with a major in design theory\, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in architecture. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1985 and has been practicing architecture in New York and Massachusetts for the past thirty years. \nHer life as a quilter began shortly after becoming a mother in 1991.\nKathy lives with her two dogs in the hilltowns of western Massachusetts.\nHer body of work can be seen at kathyford.net \n \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-kathy-ford
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Readers Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
DESCRIPTION:John D. Bidwell is consulting editor of Monique and the Mango Rains\, the critically esteemed book authored by his wife Kris Holloway that chronicles their time in Peace Corps with the Malian midwife Monique Dembele. He is the Executive Director of the United Way of Hampshire County\, and a branding and marketing consultant\, frequent presenter\, and has lectured and taught at the University of Michigan\, University of Massachusetts\, Smith College\, and Marlboro College. John has his BA from McGill University. \n  \n  \n \nKris Holloway is author of the critically acclaimed Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali\, which has been called “a respectful\, unsentimental portrait (and) a poignant and powerful book.” (Kirkus\, Starred Review). She has delivered hundreds of presentations\, and the book remains a favorite “common read” and is used in 150+ college and university courses. Kris is President of CISabroad\, a leading education abroad organization responsible that has sent thousands of students to study and intern abroad worldwide. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. \n  \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-readers-kris-holloway-john-bidwell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Tzivia Gover
DESCRIPTION:Tzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com.  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-tzivia-gover
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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