Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Trish Crapo
The BasementTrish Crapo - Poet, writer, collage artist, and photographer Trish Crapo was educated at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of the recently republished chapbookWalk through Paradise Backwards from Slate Roof Press (2004 and 2018), she has had work featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life Read More
Good Storytelling in Nonfiction With Suzanne Strempek Shea
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesAt the Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St. Northampton, MA FREE TO ATTEND - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC It goes without saying (at least for this writer) that nonfiction - about yourself, someone else, something else - needs to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But don’t forget Read More
Reading by local authors for Forbes Library 125th anniversary!
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060
125th Anniversary – Forbes Library – Reading of local authors
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Andrea Hairston
The BasementAndrea 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 Read More
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader D. Dina Friedman
Ashfield Community Hall , 521 Main Street, Ashfield, MAD. Dina Friedman has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and published in many literary journals including Lilith, Negative Capability, The Sun, Common Ground Review, San Pedro River Review, Steam Ticket, New Plains Review, Blue Stem, Red Booth Review, Bloodroot, Anderbo, and Rhino. Dina is also the author of two award-winning young adult novels, Escaping Into the Read More
Dead Writers Dance – Literary Halloween
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesDEAD WRITERS DANCE - Literary Halloween! LOTS OF FUN TO BE HAD!
Annual Meeting 2019
Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United StatesCome join us for our annual meeting. This is a time to have the community come together and discuss ways in which Straw Dog can further support the writing community in Western MA.
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Janet MacFayden
Janet MacFadyen is the author of four poetry collections, including Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017), In the Provincelands (Slate Roof 2012), and A Newfoundland Journal (Killick Press 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It also has been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50, and has appeared in The Atlanta Read More
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Mary A Koncel
The BasementMary A. Koncel has published three books of prose poetry – Closer to Day (Quale Press), You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press), and The Last Blonde (Hedgerow Books). She was a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her Read More