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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night with Jovonna Van Pelt
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Jovonna Van Pelt\, poet and essayist on Thursday\, June 16\, 6:45-7:45pm. \nJo is the author of “Unrelated Questions” a gorgeous book of poetry published in 2019\, and her endearing book of Christmas Stories\, “Merry and Bright\,” will be published this fall. Over the years her writing has served everything from corporation to puppeteers. Please come and hear this terrific writer read from her work\, speak about creating stories and poems\, and learn how she made the transition from the corporate world to poetry. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. Or you can just show up.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-with-jovonna-van-pelt
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Voices for Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library in Celebrating Voices for Resistance on Wednesday\, June 15\, 7:00-8:30pm.  On Zoom. Register HERE. \nVoices for Resistance panel:\nReaders: Daisy Hernández\, Thérèse Chehade\, Dahlma Llanos Figueroa\, Steve Edwards\, Neema Avashia\nEmcee: Andrea Hairston\nHonorary Host: Kim Gerould \n  \n  \n  \nBios: \nNeema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States from India in the late 1960s. She has been a middle school teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. Her first book\, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place\, was published by WVU Press in March 2022. www.neemaavashia.com \nThérèse Soukar Chehade is a Massachusetts-based teacher of English Language Learners. She was born in Beirut\, Lebanon\, and came to this country in 1983. She holds an M.F.A. from UMass\, Amherst. Her novel\, Loom\, won the 2011 Arab American Award in the fiction category. \nSteve Edwards is the author of Breaking into the Backcountry\, the story of his seven months of solitude along the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River in Oregon. His work can be found in Orion\, The Sun\, Literary Hub\, Longreads\, and elsewhere. He teaches\nwriting at Fitchburg State University. \nDahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. Her first novel Daughters of the Stone was shortlisted as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She lives in New York City. www.DahlmaLlanosFigueroa.com \nKim Gerould is a retired educator who has taught bilingual education and ESL. She is a co-founder of Families with Power and has been an activist since marching against the Vietnam War. She is now digging deep into African American and local history as a board member and tour guide of the David Ruggles Center for History and Education. \nAndrea Hairston’s novels include: Master of Poisons\, Will Do Magic For Small Change\, NY Times Editor’s pick\, finalist for the Mythopoeic\, Lambda\, and Otherwise Awards\, and Redwood and Wildfire\, an Otherwise Award winner. She bikes at night year round\, meeting bears\, multi-legged creatures of light and breath\, and the occasional shooting star. \nDaisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family\, an Insect\, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease\, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award. She is also the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. \nRecent books by the authors: \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/celebrating-voices-for-resistance
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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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:Poetry Writing: Strategies for Finding Voice Through Life Experience with Ron Welburn
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild in person on Saturday\, May 21\, 2022 from 10:30am – 12:00pm for a craft workshop: Poetry Writing: Strategies for Finding Voice Through Life Experience with Ron Welburn. This is the long-awaited rescheduled event from last year. And it’s being held by our co-sponsor the Northampton Center for the Arts. \nNo matter how much poetry we have written\, we all experience snags and dry spells. I would like to share some strategies for writing which include listening\, perceiving what’s around us\, understanding situational ironies\, socio-political issues\, and cosmic laughter. I encourage each participant to have ready one poem by a favored poet that raises difficulty of comprehension\, and a draft of one personal poem you like but don’t know how to finish. \nThis in-person event is free and open to the public. To register\, please email strawdogreg@gmail.com. Masks may be required. \nClick HERE for links to the poems Ron will be addressing. While registration is not required\, if you let us know you’ll be attending\, we will send you the downloaded poems. \nBio: Calling Berwyn\, PA. his hometown although raised in West Philadelphia\, Ron Welburn began seriously writing poetry while majoring in psychology and English at Lincoln University where he twice won the Silvera Poetry Prize. He also earned degrees from Arizona (M.A.) and NYU (Ph.D)\, taught at Syracuse\, SUNY Albany\, and WestConn before retiring from UMass Amherst in 2018 after 27 years and where he served as co-founder and director of Native Studies. Ron held three Poet-in-Residencies under the NYS Council on the Arts. His seven poetry books are: Peripheries; Brownup; The Look in the Night Sky; Heartland; Council Decisions; Coming Through Smoke and the Dreaming; and Council Decisions: Revised & Expanded. His love of jazz and life as an Urban Indian (a “Saltwater Cherokee” whose roots run deep in the Delmarva and Chesapeake Basin) characterizes much of his poetry. To read more about Ron\, go to: www.umass.edu/english/member/ron-welburn
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-writing-strategies-for-finding-voice-through-life-experience-with-ron-welburn
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night with Jacqueline Sheehan
DESCRIPTION:The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writers Night” with New York Times Best Selling Author\, psychologist\, and teacher\, Jacqueline Sheehan. Her books include The Comet’s Tale\, based on the life of Sojourner Truth. Lost & Found and Now & Then\, (New York Times bestsellers)\, Picture This\, The Center of the World\, and The Tiger in the House. Her stories have been published in many Literary Journals as well as the New York Times. She teaches writing workshops and has lead writing retreats in places ranging from Guatemala to The Czech Republic to Scotland. Please come and hear this amazing writer read from her work\, speak about creating stories\, and what it’s like to be a full time writer. Thursday\, May 19\, 6:45-7:45pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center.\nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-with-jacqueline-sheehan
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In May
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 3 from 7-9pm for Writers Night Out/In with featured writer Rebecca Hart Olander. \nRegistration is required. Register HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nBio: Rebecca Hart Olander’s writing and collaborations have appeared recently in Bracken\, Jet Fuel Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Tinderbox\, Tiny Spoon\, and others. Books include a chapbook\, Dressing the Wounds (dancing girl press\, 2019)\, and Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press\, 2021). Rebecca teaches at Westfield State University and in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In with Wine and Chocolate WNO Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us live on Zoom from 6:30-6:55 p.m. on Tuesday\, May 3rd for “Wine and Chocolate with the Founders and MCs of WNO.” (You’ll have to bring your own wine and chocolate.) Registration is required. Register HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The registration ink is the same as WNO in May with Rebecca Hart Olander starting at 7:00pm. So come for the camaraderie with you wine and chocolate. Make your donation.  And stay for the readings. \nOur WNO fundraiser is the perfect way to celebrate yourself and those you love while supporting the Straw Dog Writers Guild. PLEASE DONATE TODAY! \nAnd just for fun: watch Chris O’Carroll list Straw Dog writers Guild programs and shenanigans. Enjoy! \n \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-with-wine-and-chocolate-wno-fundraiser
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Character Whispering: Strategies for Further Insight with Justine Dymond
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, April 23\, 10:30am – 12:00pm for a Straw Dog Writers Guild Craft Workshop: Character Whispering: Strategies for Further Insight with Justine Dymond\, \nWhether you are playing with possibilities for new stories or trying to get closer to a character you’ve known for a while\, this workshop will offer a variety of strategies and prompts for deepening your understanding of the people in your writing life. Their voices can call to us from observations\, dreams\, art\, and a multitude of other ways. Sometimes we hear these voices with a stunning clarity; other times\, they remain muted to our ears–by differences in culture\, history\, language\, or less weighty barriers\, such as appeal and attraction. \nDecide which of these people to invite to the workshop\, warm up your writerly curiosity\, and plan to spend a couple hours chatting up your characters. \nThis is a free online workshop and open to the public. Registration is required for this Zoom event. Click HERE to register. \nBio: Justine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won Hidden Rivers Arts’ 2018 Eludia Award. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Briar Cliff Review\, Meat for Tea\, Lowestoft Chronicle\, and Cargo Literary. She co-edited Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives (Demeter Press). Other honors and awards include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist\, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer “Brave of Worms\,” a 2007 O. Henry Prize\, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006\, two Pushcart Prize nominations\, and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her writing has earned grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She teaches literature and writing at Springfield College and is currently working on a novel set in Boston in 1733.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/character-whispering-strategies-for-further-insight-with-justine-dymond
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:A Writers Night with Michael Favala Goldman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Writers Night on Thursday\, April 21\, 6:45 – 7:45pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center at 211 Maple Rd\, in Longmeadow\, MA\, where Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writers Night” with award winning poet\, writer\, translator\, carpenter\, and jazz musician Michael Favala Goldman. His translation of Danish author\, Tove Ditlevsen’s memoirs “The Copenhagen Trilogy\,” was recognized by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2021. \nFrom the New York Times 1/19/2021:\nThe first two volumes were translated by Tiina Nunnally\, the final one — the most sublime and harrowing — by Michael Favala Goldman. Now published together in one handsome volume as “The Copenhagen Trilogy\,” they are a portrait of an artist and a portrait of an addict — and the product of a terrifying talent. Ditlevsen\, who died in 1976\, is beloved in her native Denmark; today her work is taught in schools and her life is the subject of reverent plays. Danish editions of her work often feature her photograph on the cover — her head cocked\, a cigarette between her fingers\, looking amused and conspiratorial. “Loved by generations of women and put down by generations of men\,” the Danish writer Dorthe Nors has described her. \nPlease come to hear this amazing writer read from this book and his newly translated\, “The Trouble With Happiness\,” answer questions\, and speak to the life of a writer.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-with-michael-favala-goldman
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SUMMARY:Spring Tonic Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Spring Tonic Poetry Share with Poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins on Saturday April 16\, 1:30 – 3:00pm. \nWe will welcome in spring with the auditory tonic of listening to one another read poetry while sipping ephemeral teas. We are sharing poetry inspired by spring – this can be your own work or favorite work by others. We will gather in a circle outside behind Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Offerings for Community Building and Straw Dog Writers Guild and hosted at the Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. \nTo Register\, please contact Belding Memorial Library at: 413-628-4414 or bmlashfield@gmail.com. \nThe Library is located at 344 Main Street\, Ashfield.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/spring-tonic-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In April
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, April 5 at 7:00pm for Writers Night Out/In on Zoom! Our featured readers are Karen Skolfield and Rio Santos. Registration is required. Register HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 – 48 hours containing information about joining the meeting. \nBios: \nKaren Skolfield is the poet laureate of Northampton for 2019-2022. Her book Battle Dress (W. W. Norton\, 2019) won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; her book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at UMass Amherst. www.karenskolfield.com \nRio Santos is the Youth Poet Laureate of Northampton. She is a high school student at Northampton High School.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-april
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writing Disability: Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, March 26 from 10:30am to 12:00pm for Writing Disability. This presentation is a moderated discussion between three writers\, focusing on the presentation of people\, with physical and mental disabilities\, in literature. Topics covered include individualizing people and disabilities\, social role valorization\, dealing with the discomfort of social expectations\, the role of society in the perception of people who do need assistance\, and writing about people with disabilities in a sensitive manner. Questions from the audience are encouraged. \nRegistration is required. Register in advance for this meeting HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \nBios: \nAnna Bellassai is the 2021 Emerging Writers Scholarship recipient for Sisters in Crime. Taylor’s Bond\, a YA novel\, features a protagonist with the same rare genetic disorder she has. She brings all the wisdom of her nineteen years living with this disorder to our discussion. \nJ. A. McIntosh\, a recovering attorney\, writes the Meredith\, Massachusetts series. The next book in the series\, Grampa Leary\, will be published in March 2022. She has a degenerative joint disease\, that required multiple surgeries and metal and polymer implants. She states: “I have held up security lines at metal detectors on four continents.” J. A. serves on the board of North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy\, a nonprofit in Central Massachusetts that fosters one-on-one relationships between able-bodied volunteers and vulnerable people with mental impairments and disorders. \nJule Selbo’s debut mystery\, Ten Days\, features a heroine who must learn to cope with a prosthetic leg after a career-ending accident. Jule is a novelist\, playwright and screenwriter and teaches screenwriting and film history at CSU-Fullerton. Able-bodied herself\, Jule has never subscribed to the write-what-you-know philosophy. As a result of immersing herself in another character’s reality\, Jule said\, “I see parts of the world differently—and I hope the readers will too.”
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writing-disability-panel-discussion
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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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 March
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 1 at 7:00pm for our monthly Writers Night Out/In! Our featured reader is Lynne Bertrand. \nRegistration is required. Register HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 – 48 hours containing information about joining the meeting. \nBio: Lynne Bertrand lives in Western Massachusetts and works in the music business. Her most recent book is City of the Uncommon Thief (Dutton Books/Penguin-Random House). You can read an excerpt of it HERE. \nHer previous books were for young children. Those include Granite Baby\, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (FSG)\, and One Day\, Two Dragons\, illustrated by Janet Street (Clarkson Potter/Random House).
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-march
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
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SUMMARY:Creative Approaches to Structuring Your Essay with Nancy McCabe
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Wednesday\, February 9 from 7:00-9:00pm for an online craft workshop: Creative Approaches to Structuring Your Essay with Nancy McCabe. This interactive presentation will focus on the devices that fiction and poetry offers us in structuring our essays. We’ll explore options from traditional narrative to lyric approaches like braids\, collages\, lists\, and hermit crab forms\, read some examples\, and try out some exercises. \nRegistration is required. Register HERE. \n \nBio: Nancy McCabe is the author of six books\, most recently Can This Marriage Be Saved? A Memoir\, which explores the story of her ill-advised\, ill-fated youthful marriage through hermit crab essays and extended metaphors. Her books also include From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood and the novel Following Disasters. Her short pieces have appeared in numerous publications\, most recently Salon\, ACM\, Entropy\, and Essay Daily\, in addition to such places as Prairie Schooner\, Gulf Coast\, Massachusetts Review\, Newsweek\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work has received a Pushcart and made notable listings eight times in Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She directs the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. She also teaches in the Spalding low-residency MFA program and online for the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/creative-approaches-to-structuring-your-essay-with-nancy-mccabe
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211229T194518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T182250Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In February
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 1 at 7:00pm for our monthly Writers Night Out/In! Our featured reader is  Adin Thayer. \nRegistration is required. Register in advance by clicking HERE. \nAfter 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. Contact strawdogevents@gmail.com for questions. \nBio: Adin Thayer grew up in Virginia. During the past 19 years she has spent time working in Rwanda and neighboring countries in Africa. The experiences and people she has encountered through that work\, as well as the impact of her childhood during Jim Crow\, inform and inhabit her poetry. Her work also attempts to express and explore the ways the natural world’s power\, beauty and lawfulness do and could affect how we behave as people.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-february
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211214T154932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T210708Z
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Straw Dog Writers Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:8th Annual Straw Dog Writers Author Showcase on Wednesday\, January 19\, 2022 at 6:30pm. Join us for readings from new books by members of Straw Dog Writers Guild: John Sheirer\, Nina Dabek. Chris O’Carroll\, Julie Wittes Schlack\, Suzanne S. Rancourt\, Lanette Sweeney\, Michael Favala Goldman\, Maureen Callahan Smith\, Sally Bellerose\, Joan Livingston\, Mark Luebbers\, Tom Weiner. \nRegistration is required. Register for the Zoom link HERE. \nThis event is Co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Forbes Library. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/8th-annual-straw-dog-writers-author-showcase
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211214T220035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T212437Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out-In January Richard Horton
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the New Year on Tuesday\, January 4 at 7:00pm for our monthly Writers Night Out/In! Our featured reader is Richard Wayne Horton. You can read his author interview with us from back in August HERE. \nRegistration for WNO is required. Register for Zoom event HERE. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 – 48 hours containing information about joining the meeting. Make sure your information is full and complete. Thanks! \nBio: Richard Wayne Horton writes short stories and prose poetry and he also works in hybrid forms. His stories create a special kind of engagement and a sense of reality. He has received 2 Pushcart nominations and is the 2019-21 MA Beat Poet Laureate.\nHis work has appeared in Lonesome October\, Meat For Tea\, Bull & Cross\, Literary Heist\, The Dead Mule and other literary journals. \nThe following books by Richard Wayne Horton are available on Amazon and other platforms: \n\nSticks & Bones (2017\, Meat For Tea Press)\nArtists In The Underworld (2019\, Human Error Publishing)\nBallet For Murderers (2021\, Human Error Publishing)
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-january-richard-horton
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211013T191743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T200516Z
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SUMMARY:Craft in the Real World Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Have you always understood writing craft topics\, such as plot\, setting or tone\, to be objective subjects? In his book Craft in the Real World\, Matthew Salesses argues that “what we call craft is in fact nothing more or less than a set of expectations. … These expectations are never neutral.” \nReviewer Leni Zumas\, author of Red Clocks\, says that Salesses “explores how beliefs about ‘good’ writing are profoundly marked by race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, ability\, and national identity; and he offers concrete strategies for liberating our classrooms and writing practices from the straight-white-male default gaze.” \nTo read a section of the book called 25 Essential Notes on Craft\, click here: 25 Essential Notes on Craft by Matthew Salesses\n\nJoin us on December 12th\, 3-4:30 p.m. on Zoom for an open-ended discussion of the insights and lessons this book offers as we rethink our understanding of the writing craft. Register HERE. \n[The book is available at local bookstores and through Forbes Library.] \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/craft-in-the-real-world-book-discussion
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211109T165250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T144343Z
UID:10000525-1638903600-1638910800@strawdogwriters.org
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
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211110T200008Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns December
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday\, December 5 from 2-4pm. Our featured reader is Jane Yolen. To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. \nBio: Jane Yolen’s published book count has reached 407. Approximately a dozen of them are volumes of adult poetry\, and the rest\, she likes to say\, include everything but romance (too much hands-on research for an 82-year-old)\, dark horror (although she has published three Holocaust novels)\, and novels about the old West. (She rode Lippizaners\, not cowboy ponies.) She also writes operas\, plays\, and musicals\, and at age 80 was in a band. All three of her children and two of her grandchildren are published writers. \nThis is the final session of Writers Read/Hilltowns. Thanks to everyone who has supported this event through your attendance and participation.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-december
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211204T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211123T144822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T144822Z
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Read: Margo Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, December 4 at 1 p.m. ET when we host Margo Gabriel (Food\, travel\, culture\, wine\, music\, art\, lifestyle\, self-care). She’ll read the opening essay\, Where Food\, Culture and People Meet\, from her debut cookbook\, The Expat Kitchen. We’ll also chat about her expansive writing career.\nMargo Gabriel is originally from Miami\, FL and grew up in Boston\, MA. She is a freelance writer who centers her work on art\, food\, music and travel. She is the author of The Expat Kitchen cookbook. She is based in Lisbon\, Portugal.\nMargo has written for Cuisine Noir\, Edible Boston\, Boston Art Review\, ButcherBox\, Fodor’s Travel\, Solstice Literary Magazine and more.\nMargo is the Coordinator and Correspondent at Bokamundo\, an arts and culture organization for the lusophone speaking communities based in Lisbon\, Portugal. She is a member of Comissão da Carteira Profissional de Jornalista. She is a contributing food writer at Cuisine Noir. \nProduced and Hosted by Nicole M. Young-Martin\nWATCH LIVE\nhttps://www.facebook.com/valleysociety413\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uDYbx65zxBiCeBg6nfqzA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/black-writers-read-margo-gabriel
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20210929T184243Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring Some Japanese Poetry Forms: Writing Haiku and Tanka
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild presents: Exploring Some Japanese Poetry Forms: Writing Haiku and Tanka with Eileen P. Kennedy on Wednesday\, November 17\, 2021 from 6:30 – 8:00pm. \nHaiku and Tanka are traditional Japanese poetry forms. How do we go about developing our creative thoughts into these highly structured styles of poetry? In this short workshop\, we’ll begin to answer this question. Through a brief talk\, reading and discussion of some traditional and modern texts\, and in-session writing\, we’ll explore these classic forms of syllabic poetry. Participants may come away with a better understanding of the structure of these two types of poetry\, how they differ from other forms\, how constraints can enhance creativity\, and how Haiku and/or Tanka may be crafted. \nThis workshop will be on Zoom. Registration required. Register HERE. Registrations are approved manually and it may take up to 48 hours for you to receive your email Zoom link. Your Zoom link will be re-sent to you on the day of the event so don’t worry if you lose it. Do not share your unique Zoom link with anyone. Anyone who has not gone through registration will not be admitted to the event. Please be sure to register no later than the day of the event. \nBio: Eileen P. Kennedy is a writer\, poet and academic. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Banshees (Flutter Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards\, and Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press\, 2021.) which Literary Titan has called “a collection of emotionally-charged poetry that explores life with observant poems.” Her poetry has appeared in more than 25 literary journals and anthologies. She taught writing for many years on the faculty of the City University of New York. She has been awarded writing residencies at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild\, Air ‘Le Parc’ and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. More at EileenPKennedy.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/exploring-some-japanese-poetry-forms-writing-haiku-and-tanka
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Read:  Aprell May
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, November 14 at 3 p.m. ET when we host Aprell May (urban creative non-fiction. journalism). She’ll read from her memoir\, “Classic Fly: Essays from generational trauma to healing.”\nA previous salon owner\, Aprell May is a trending/breaking news reporter for The Republican. She recently received her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Bay Path University. When she is not spending time with her wonderful daughter and dogs Bentley and Lolaisha\, Aprell May loves writing about her fascination with food\, culture\, adventure\, social justice and family. \nProduced and Hosted by Nicole M. Young-Mart\nWatch live:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/valleysociety413\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uDYbx65zxBiCeBg6nfqzA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/black-writers-read-aprell-may
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T000000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211110T193315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T193315Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline for Presenter Interest for Author Showcase December 10
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library invite Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book published in 2020 or 2021 to read as part of the 2022 annual Author Showcase. If interested in being part of the Showcase\, please indicate your interest by emailing strawdogsubmission@gmail.com. \nThe deadline to express interest is midnight Friday\, December 10. We will let authors know by December 13th. Authors will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. \nTen readers will have five minutes each to read from their work. While you won’t have a chance to sell your books\, links to your books will be posted in the chat. \nOnce chosen\, you will then need to provide a brief bio and photograph for publicity and Showcase program. \nThe 8th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books (Yes\, this is mere months after our 7th showcase) will take place on January 19\, 2022\, from 7:00 – 8:30pm on Zoom.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/deadline-for-presenter-interest-for-author-showcase-december-10
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211107T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211005T154039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T164200Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns November
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday\, November 7 from 2-4pm. Our featured reader is Rebecca Hart Olander. \nTo attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. \nBio: Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Crab Creek Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, and her collaborative work has been published in multiple venues online and in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (BLP). Rebecca is a Women’s National Book Association poetry contest winner and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her chapbook\, Dressing the Wounds\, was published in 2019 by dancing girl press\, and her full-length collection\, Uncertain Acrobats\, was just released by CavanKerry Press. Rebecca teaches writing at Westfield State University and is editor/director of Perugia Press. Find her at rebeccahartolander.com and @rholanderpoet.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-november
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211019T160949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T222757Z
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SUMMARY:SDWG Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:PUBLIC NOTICE: Straw Dog Writers Guild Annual Meeting\nThursday\, November 4\, 7:00 – 8:00pm. \nAgenda: \n\nWelcome and accomplishments\nVote in Board of Directors\nSDWG Programs and Committees\nA Path Forward\nWebsite performance for this past year\nHear from the Membership\n\nSDWG members who are interested in participating in the Annual Meeting\, please email admin@strawdogwriters.org to request zoom link for registration. \nIf you are not able to participate in Thursday’s member\, you can still vote for BOD officer. UPDATE: Voting has closed.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/sdwg-annual-meeting-2
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20211005T152215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T160704Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In November
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday\, November 2\, 7:00pm. Registration required. Our featured writers are Jason Montgomery and Alexandra Woolner\, joint poet laureates of Easthampton. \nRegister in advance for this meeting: Click HERE to register. \nAfter 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. \nBio: Jason R. Montgomery\nJason R. Montgomery\, or JRM\, is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian writer\, painter\, community artist and engagement artist from El Centro\, California. In 2016\, along with Poet Alexandra Woolner\, and illustrator Jen Wagner\, JRM founded Attack Bear Press in Easthampton\, MA. Jason’s work engages the cross-section of Chicano/Indigenous identity\, cultural hybridization\, post-colonial reconstruction\, and political agency. His writing and visual art bridges the aesthetics and feel from the early cubist collage movement and the Russian abstract movement of the 1920s with living and historical Native/Indigenous Californian and Chicano art traditions to explore the Post-colonial narrative through active synthesis and guided (re)construction. JRM’s work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine\, Storm Cellar\, Ilanot Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue and other publications. Jason is one of 2021 Newell Flather Awards for Leadership in Public Art outstanding nominees and 2021-2023 Easthampton Poets Laureate. \nJason R. Montgomery is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian activist\, writer\, painter\, and playwright from El Centro\, California. Jason is the co-founder of the police transformation group “A Knee is Not Enough” (AKINE) in Easthampton\, MA. In 2016 he founded the arts activism collective Attack Bear Press. JRM’s work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine\, Storm Cellar\, Ilanot Review\, and other publications. In 2021\, Jason was selected as one of two Poets Laureate for 2021-2023. \nBio: Alexandra Woolner\nAlex is a poet\, international educator\, and typewriter enthusiast originally from Worcester County\, Massachusetts. In 2016 Alex co-founded Attack Bear Press with Jason R. Montgomery\, and deeply enjoys organizing typewriter drop-ins and type-ins where she gets her typewriter nerd on with an unsuspecting public. When not writing or reading poetry\, she can be found convincing brave youth to spend a good chunk of their academic careers abroad\, lurking in the Sergio Aragones section of comic book shops\, and gently annoying her cat (TJ\, the original attack bear). Alex received her B.A. in English from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2007\, and her M.A. in International Education from SIT Graduate Institute in 2014.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20210910T165515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T140031Z
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SUMMARY:Darling You’re Making a Scene
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild presents: “Darling\, You’re Making a Scene” with Áine Greaney on Saturday\, October 16\, 2021 10:30 – 12:00. This workshop will be on Zoom. Registration required. Register HERE. \nWhether you write fiction or nonfiction\, learn how to craft lively\, memorable scenes that draw the reader in and make them care about your story and your real or imagined characters. \nIn this workshop\, participants will learn: \n\nMacro and micro issues of scene building\nThose opening and closing scenes\nShow don’t tell; but when you *must* tell\, learn how to balance “live” scenes and narrative paragraphs\nAchieving vividness.\nMaking your readers care\nDialog in your scene\n\nBio: Áine Greaney is an Irish-born author who never published anything until she emigrated from Ireland to America\, alone\, at age 24. Since then (1986)\, she has published four books and a chapbook collection of short stories. Her features\, essays and stories have been published and broadcast in the U.S.\, Ireland\, the U.K. and Canada in publications such as Creative Nonfiction\, NPR/WBUR\, PBS The World\, The Boston Globe Magazine\, The New York Times\, Litro\, Salon and The Drum. She is also the author of the popular instructional book\, Writer with a Day Job (Writers Digest Books). Her awards and shortlists include a citation in Best American Essays and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her second novel\, Dance Lessons\, was one of 20 chosen by the National Women’s Book Association for National Reading Group Month and a runner up in the Rubery International Awards. In addition to writing\, she has facilitated creative writing workshops and presented or co-presented at national and regional conferences\, including the Writers Digest Conference in New York City\, the Cape Cod Writers Conference\, the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Examined Life Conference at U. Iowa School of Medicine.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/darling-youre-making-a-scene
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T013106
CREATED:20210916T160552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T163042Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In October
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday\, October 5\, 7:00pm. Registration required. Register HERE. Our featured writer is María Luisa Arroyo. \nChanges to registration have been made for security purposes. You will now receive your link after your registration has been approved within 24 to 48 hours. On the day of the event\, your link will be re-sent for ease of access. Contact strawdogevents@gmail.com for questions. See you soon!  \nBio: Educated at Colby\, Tufts and Harvard in German\, her third language\, María Luisa Arroyo will share poems from her 2018 chapbook\, Destierro Means Means More than Exile. There\, she pays tribute to 32 women poets who inspire her as a multilingual Boricua poet and intersectional feminist educator. Her poems appear in many journals such as One\, The Common\, and Multiplicity\, and anthologies\, including Boricua en la Luna. As Assistant Professor of Writing & First-Year Studies at Bay Path University\, María Luisa joyfully teaches undergraduate students to claim their creative voices as they write academic research papers.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic
ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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