Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
The BasementFeatured Reader: Mary Clare Powell Mary 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 Read More
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
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
Writers Read @ ELMERS – Featured Reader Phyllis Katz
Elmers 396 Main St,, Ashfield, MA, 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
Poetry Critique Group – Register today!
Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United StatesRegister Here
Straw Dog Writers Guild Authors Showcase!
South Hadley Public Library 2 Canal St, South Hadley, MassachusettsTuesday, September 25, at South Hadley Public Library at 6 p.m. AUTHORS READING Elizabeth George Amy Laprade Susan LaRosa Ruth Lehrer Melanie S. Lewis Ed Orzechowski Michael Ponsor Jessica B. Sokol Joshua Michael Stewart Melissa Volker Tom Weiner Ellen Wittlinger
Straw Dog Writers Guild – Annual Meeting 2018
84 Musante Drive, Northampton, MA 01060 84 Musante Drive, Northampton, MAStraw Dog Writers Guild annual meeting All members welcome -Come hear about plans and opportunities Sept 29, 10 am, 84 Musante Drive, Northampton. Coffee/tea/nibbles RSVP to info@strawdogwriters.org
NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous – Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MANicole M. Young - Featured Poet Nicole M. Young is a performance poet, playwright, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts, New York, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album, In/Put:  Live from the Valley, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website Candace Read More
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Jendi Reiter
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 Graham Hall, Smith College
Graham Hall, Smith College Smith College, Northampton, MAPOETS READING Janet E Aalfs Alice Barrett Jean Blakeman Anna Bozena Bowen Floyd Cheung Candace R Curran Beth Filson Michael Goldman Tzivia Gover Sharon A Harmon Jane McPhetres Johnson Mary Ellen Kelly Patricia Lee Lewis Richard Michelson Burleigh Mutén Jovonna Van Pelt Christine Anne Pratt Stephanie B Shafran Cynthia Suopis Jane Yolen
The Poetic Dream Workshop
South Hadley Public Library 2 Canal St, South Hadley, MassachusettsThe Poetic Dream Workshop with Tzivia Gover Dreams contain all the elements great poetry including metaphor, symbolism, vivid imagery, humor, and personification. Thus, it is no surprise that classical and contemporary poets from Coleridge to Hughes to Clifton and more have used dreams and visions to craft their works. Dreams can help new writers and experienced Read More
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