Poetry Critique Group – Register today!
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesREGISTER HERE
Writers Read – Featured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton
Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United StatesBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! Here’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 Read More
Dead Writers Dance – Literary Halloween
121 Club, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA Easthampton, MADo you write? Do you read? Do you wish the NYTimes Book Review would ask YOU which dead authors you’d like to have dinner with?Forget dinner, come DANCE with them! Dress up as your favorite author (or character) and Join Straw Dog Writers for our inaugural DEAD WRITERS DANCE Benefit. DJ Cash bar Free snacks Surprise accolades Read More
Literary Rendezvous – Open Mic/ Featured Readers: Stewart & Stewart
Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo! Turners Falls, MA. Straw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. Open to all poets and poetry lovers! Sign up for open mic by 3:15 pm. Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. Featured Readers - Pamela Stewart & Joshua Michael Stewart Joshua Michael Read More
Cancelled – ROUNDTABLE: ALLY V APPROPRIATION
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Cai Emmons
The BasementDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. 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. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support Read More
Compass Roads Reading at The Great Falls Word Festival
Shea Theater 71 Avenue A,, Turners Falls, MA
Poetry Critique Group – Register today!
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesRegister HERE
Literary Rendezvous – Featured Poet: Beth Filson
The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MALiterary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St, Turners Falls, MA 01376 Straw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. Open to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. Sign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic. Featured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer, educator, and a self-taught artist. She Read More
Giving & Receiving Manuscript Feedback – Workshop with Celia Jeffries
Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United StatesGiving and receiving manuscript feedback No one writes in a void. Although we may sometimes deny it, most of us write to be read. But there are times when having your work read by others can be damaging or even silencing, particularly when you are in the formative stages of a project. Many workshops have Read More
Writers Read/Hilltowns – featured reader Frances W. Henry
Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United StatesBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! Here’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 Read More
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Michael A. Ponsor
The BasementDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. 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. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support Read More
Poetry Critique Group – Register today!
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesRegister Here
Literary Rendezvous- OPEN MIC
The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Michael J. Ponsor
Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United StatesMichael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. Ponsor has taught at Yale Law School, Western New England School of Law, and the University of Read More
Writers Night Out /Open Mic – Featured Reader: Debra Immergut
The BasementWriters Night Out The Basement, 21 Center Street, Northampton, MA OPEN MIC - 2nd Tuesdays 7-9pm Hosts Rick Paar & Jacqueline Sheehan Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. 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 Read More
Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift EventÂ
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesTitle of Presentation: Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift Event © Location: NCA Date/Time: Sunday, Jan.13, 1-3pm This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore fear as information. Quest-ions (energy for the journey) include "What am I afraid of?" "What do I want?" and "What can I do to move through fear to the next level of courage?" Read More
A Winter Reading – Belchertown Authors
Parish Hall at BUCC 18 Park Street, Belchertown, MALocal authors who are members of the Straw Dog Writers Guild and friends will read from their books and manuscripts. There will be snacks and books available for signing. Snow day is January 27, 4-6 PM. Readers include: Mary Warren Bartlett, Justine Dymond, Francesca Forrest, Marianne Gambaro, Ellen Evert Hopman, Melanie S. Lewis, and Jo Read More
Literary Rendezvous – Featured Poet: Lauren Marie Schmidt
The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MALauren Marie Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her Read More
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured reader: Alice Barrett
Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! Here'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 can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want Read More