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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns on Zoom with Featured Reader Dr. Jane Fleishman
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on Feb 7\, 2-4 p.m. \nFeatured Reader – Dr. Jane Fleishman \nJane Fleishman\, PhD\, MEd\, MS\, AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator\, is an award-winning educator\, writer\, program developer\, and sexuality researcher. She co-hosts a regular podcast on sex in the second half of life at www.ourbetterhalf.net and recently completed a TEDx talk\, Is It OK for Grandma to Have Sex? She holds a PhD and MEd in Human Sexuality from Widener University\, Center for Human Sexuality Studies. Her curious nature has led her to research sexual satisfaction in older adults. Her latest accomplishment\, The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex\, Activism\, and Aging is a collection of contributions from a wide diversity of LGBTQ elders. She is a proud Jewish mother of two amazing twenty-somethings and lives in Northampton\, MA. You can reach her at www.janefleishman.com. \nWe hope you will consider donating any amount here to this and other programs offered by Straw Dog Writers Guild: http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-on-zoom-with-featured-reader-dr-jane-fleishman
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill,Writers Read/Hilltown
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns on Zoom - Featured Reader Ellen Meeropol
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on January 3rd\, 2-4 p.m. \nFeatured Reader – Ellen Meeropol \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novels Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay and short story publications include Solstice\, Lilith\, Ms. Magazine\, Guernica\, Lit Hub\, The Boston Globe\, and The Writers Chronicle. Her work has been honored by the Women’s National Book Association\, the Massachusetts Center for the Book\, PBS NewsHour\, the American Book Fest\, and Publishers Weekly. Ellen has an MFA in fiction from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. A founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Ellen coordinates their Social Justice Writing project. \nWe hope you will consider donating any amount here to this and other programs offered by Straw Dog Writers Guild: http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-on-zoom-featured-reader-ellen-meeropol
LOCATION:zoom
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SUMMARY:** Location change for this month! Writers Read @ St. John's Corner House - Featured Reader Ann C. Averill
DESCRIPTION:Location change for this month! \nWriters Read at St. John’s Corner House\, \n469 Main St.\, Ashfield. \nFeatured Reader – Ann C. Averill \nAnn Averill’s work has appeared in several Christian publications. One of her short stories was published in a Writer’s Digest Short Short Story collection. A flash memoir recently went online in Write Angles Journal. A teacher for over 15 years\, she is also the author of the Ebook\, Broken\, 180 Days in the Wilderness of an Urban Middle School\,* available on Amazon. Besides writing\, Ann enjoys tending silly chickens\, tap dancing\, and taking long walks in the cool\, green woods. You can find her blog @ annaverill.weebly.com. \n* My Ebook is adult fiction\, based on a true story. \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \n1st Sunday of the month. – 3:00–5:00 pm. \nThen the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.)  Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill. \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-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader Melissa Volker
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by: Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Melissa Volker \nMelissa Volker’s debut novel\, Delilah of Sunhats Swans\, received a Five Star Review from Reader’s Favorites and was praised by Alice Fulton\, Guggenheim Fellow Poet\, who said\, “Delilah…is a charmer\, a being blessed with a charisma as mysterious as it is luminous. You won’t soon forget her.” It was followed by a collection of short stories and a novella\, a life undone. The daughter of a playwright/novelist and a poet\, Melissa is a member of the Straw Dog Writer’s Guild and recently won the Words and Brushes third collaborative competition with her short story\, “Truths\,” published on www.wordsandbrushes.com. She will read from her debut literary novel and her newest shorts collection\, Where We Go\, copies of which will be available for sale. \nHere’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who read for five minutes each. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get five minutes.) \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-featured-reader-melissa-volker
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader -  Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, May 6\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \n \nFeatured Reader – Lesléa Newman is the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the short story collection\, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK; the novel-in-verse\, OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD; the poetry collection\, I CARRY MY MOTHER; and the children’s books\, HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES\, SPARKLE BOY\, A SWEET PASSOVER\, and KETZEL\, THE CAT WHO COMPOSED. Her literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor\, the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award\, and the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2008 – 2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, MA. Her newest poetry collection\, LOVELY was published in January 2018. \n  \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader - ERNIE BRILL
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, April 8\,  3:00–5:00 p.m.  ( ***Second Sunday)\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader – ERNIE BRILL \nBorn in Brooklyn\, Ernie Brill writes fiction and poetry. His short story “Crazy Hattie Enters The Ice Age” from his collection of hospital stories\, I Looked Over Jordan”(South End Press) was purchased and performed on PBS by the actress\, writer\, and activist Ruby Dee. He has published stories and poems in the US and Canada. \nHe received his BA\, and MA from San Francisco State College and was an active participant in the 1968 student strike\, the longest in American history that won the first Black Studies Dept. in the US and an entire\nSchool of Ethnic Studies. \nBrill taught high school in Northampton Ma for twenty years and pioneered curriculum in Middle East Literature\,African literature\, Latin American literature\, literature of the Vietnam War\,and a more inclusive American literature\,bringing in such writers as Richard Wright\, Toni Cade Bambara\, Charles Johnson\, Martin Espada\, Janice Mirikitani and others.l \nHe is currently writing a novel about the 1968 San Francisco State. \nHis favorite writers include Virginia Woolf\, Jean Toomer\, Sterling Brown\, Mahmoud Darwish\, and Kim Hyesoon. \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-featured-reader-ernie-brill
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill with Donna Jenson
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, March  4\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson \n\nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson founded Time To Tell™ in 2009 with a mission to spark stories from lives\naffected by incest and sexual abuse to be told and heard. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\,\na non-profit arts service organization. She wrote and performs her one-woman play\, What She\nKnows: One Woman’s Way Through Incest to Joy\, which is based on her own experience of\nsurviving incest and what she did to make her life worth living. She performs her play at\nconferences\, for organizations focused on boys who have sexually abused others\, girls in prison\,\ncollege students\, domestic violence and sexual assault advocates\, and communities in need of\nhealing. She leads Time To Tell What We Know writing and mindfulness workshops for survivors.\nShe is the Board President of the non-profit MERGE: Transforming masculinity to advance gender\nequality. Donna is a leader\, counselor and organizer who built grassroots women’s centers in New\nYork City during the 1970’s and 1980’s and is still active in the leadership development consulting\nand training practice she established in 1986. Her book\, Healing My Life from Incest to Joy\, is a\nnarrative of the choices she made and experiences she had that helped her heal from her childhood\ntrauma. Published by Levellers Press\, Amherst\, MA.  www.timetotell.org \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-3
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill w/ Erik Sherman
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, February 4\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield  \nCosponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Erik Sherman \n\nFeatured Reader: Erik Sherman is an independent journalist\, author\, consultant\, and playwright. His work covering business\, technology\, economics\, finance\, law\, science\, and public policy has appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal\, Newsweek\, New York Times Magazine\, Fortune\, Inc\, and Technology Review. Mr. Sherman is a regular contributor to the online sites of Inc and Forbes and he is the author or co-author of ten non-fiction books. MORE \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls!\n\nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-w-erik-sherman
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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