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SUMMARY:How to Speak in Public with Nicole M. Young
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, January 10\, 2-4 p.m. on Zoom. Pre-registration required. There is a cap of 15 participants\, so sign up early.   \nThere is a limited number of attendees (15) and then there will be a waiting list. \n\nTo Register please send your First and Last Name\, and zip code in an email to strawdogreg@gmail.com   \n\nYou will receive a link to attend the workshop or confirmation you are on the waitlist. \n\n\nWant to build up the confidence to share your writing at public readings?  Join local performance poet and actor\, Nicole Young\, to learn how to properly prepare yourself to read your work aloud.  She’ll provide workshop participants with a toolkit on how to approach the fear of speaking to large crowds and how to handle situations that might get derailed whether by making a mistake or even the audience joining you in unexpected glee.  Please bring a sample of your work that you’d like to practice. \nBiography \nNicole M. Young has over 20 years of experience as a theatre practitioner and performer.  Nicole possesses undergraduate and graduate degrees in theatre and has studied with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada) and Royal Shakespeare Company.  She also offers writing workshops on creative writing and theatre-making for youth and educators. \n  \nHeadshot Photo Credit:  Photo by Samm Smith Design and Photography \nThis event will be held on Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Because there is a cap of 15 participants for this workshop\, you will receive a Zoom link if your registration has been successful\, or we will let you know that we have put your name on a waitlist. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/how-to-speak-in-public-with-nicole-m-young
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Floyd Cheung
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Jan 5\, 2021 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nFloyd Cheung is author of the chapbook Jazz at Manzanar (Finishing Line Press\, 2014). His poems have appeared in Love’s Executive Order\, Naugatuck River Review\, and other journals. His scholarly work focuses on the recovery and interpretation of lesser-known Asian American writers. He teaches in the Department of English and American Studies Program at Smith College\, where he also serves as Vice President for Equity and Inclusion. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-floyd-cheung
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210103T160000
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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
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill,Writers Read/Hilltown
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - two-hour open-mic extravaganza
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \n  \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on December 6\, 2-4 p.m.\n  \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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-two-hour-open-mic-extravaganza
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Read/Hilltown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201205T173000
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SUMMARY:Artist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop for all genres:\nArtist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out with Suzanne S. Rancourt \nVisual writing prompts\, viewed literally from various points of view\, strengthens character development\, dialogue\, and the individual writer\, by learning how to see as is. We learn how to witness. Exploring what creates tension and tone in our lines and characters is an opportunity to better understand everyday living. What emerges from our characters’ POV? How does our writing create bridges of witness to the current cultural challenges? What is a truss of tension? \nSaturday\, Dec 5\, 4-5:30 pm. \n1.5 hr Zoom Workshop \n\nRegister in advance for this meeting HERE\n\n\nSuzanne S. Rancourt:\nMulti-modal EXAT\, Suzanne S. Rancourt\, Abenaki/Huron descent\, has published 2 books: Billboard in the Clouds\, 2nd print\, Northwestern UP\, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award\, and murmurs at the gate\, Unsolicited Press\, 2019. Old Stones\, New Roads\, Main Street Rag\, forthcoming Spring 2021. She is a USMC and Army Veteran who holds an MS in psychology – SUNY\, Albany and an MFA in writing – VCFA. Suzanne is widely published and an AWA affiliate workshop leader. Please visit her website for a complete publication list: www.expressive-arts.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/artist-as-witness-the-upsides-down-and-the-insides-out-workshop
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
DESCRIPTION:  \nOPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, Dec 1\, 2020 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nFEATURED READER: Joshua Michael Stewart has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Salamander\, Plainsongs\, Brilliant Corners\, and many others. His books are\, Break Every String\, (Hedgerow Books\, 2016) and\, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums\, (Human Error Publishing\, 2020). Connect with him at https://www.facebook.com/joshua.m.stewart.526 \nBastard Children of Dharma Bums by Joshua Michael Stewart is a book of poems in two distinct parts. The first part is a series of thirty-four “sculpted” poems. The author explains these are erasure poems without the erased lines\, using Kerouac’s novel\, The Dharma Bums. Stewart has chosen and crafted the words to make surprising imagery and beautiful poems\, which stand well together and on their own. I enjoyed his delightful use of verbs\, such as “jump a bottle of wine\,” “surf the mountain” and “spend the warmth of God.” Some of these poems are rich with language\, some are more sparse. #26 reminds me of early James Wright with\, “A mischievous boy\, I tried to talk / to the fancy ladies in lawn hats. / Having to smile real nice\, I felt / like a dead crow.” I like the changeup of forms in both parts\, from more modern/concrete work that creatively uses white space on the page\, to golden shovels\, to more traditionally lineated poems.  In the second section of the book\, entitled “The Hardest Path\,” there is a strong influence of Japanese form.  “Nature Lesson” and “Shelburne Fire Tower” are basically series of haibun. Several poems have a Kerouacian use of extended haiku. This is Stewart’s second book\, and well worth adding to any quality poetry collection.  \n—Lori Desrosiers\, author of Keeping Planes in the Air and other books from Salmon Poetry \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T185500
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SUMMARY:Wine & Chocolate with Straw Dog Founders
DESCRIPTION:Join Jacqueline Sheehan\, Patricia Lee Lewis\, and Ellen Meeropol for a lively discussion about Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and the many accomplishments over the past 10 years.\n\n\nWriters in Western Mass know how to support each other. We know how to listen when the writing life is hard and cheer like crazy when we have our own personal success. Right now we need to share some dollars.\n\n\nPlease donate now or on December 1\, to help us reach our $20\,000 goal. And join us for “Wine and Chocolate with the Founders” on Facebook from 6:30-6:55 p.m.\n\n\nStay for Writers’ Night Out/In at 7.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wine-chocolate-with-straw-dog-founders
LOCATION:Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:GIVING TUESDAY
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD \nON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 \n2020 may be a year we’d like to forget\, but let’s end it with a celebration of giving to organizations that make a difference. Straw Dog is again participating in Giving Tuesday. \nWe’re already well on our way to our $10\,000 goal with a generous $5\,000 grant from one of our founding members. Here’s what you can do to help us reach our goal: \n\nMark your calendar to join us on social media on December 1.\nGive now\, at this DONATE button.\nGive a Straw Dog membership for a holiday gift. At only $50\, it would make a great gift to a writer you care about\, or yourself!\nWatch the Straw Dog newsletter\, website\, and social media for messages from fellow writers on how Straw Dog has made a difference for them.\nJoin us for Writers Night In\, our open mic and featured reader event held on the first Tuesday of each month. Amina Jordan-Mendez is the featured reader on December 1\, Giving Tuesday!\n\nClick here to Donate\nThank you!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/giving-tuesday
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T183000
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SUMMARY:Memoir Workshop:  Telling Stories\, Finding Meaning
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM SIGN UP/REGISTRATION – \n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd–qqDIiHdb_D90gB6efMAVN-hd4CLcr \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn writing memoir\, we are telling stories from our lives\, but how do we decide which ones to tell?  And why should anyone care?  In this workshop\, participants will practice the art of telling stories to the page\, and begin to develop their own storytelling voices.  They will learn ways to generate and organize story ideas\, will create story maps\, retrieve memories\, and find thematic threads they would like to follow.  We will read two short excerpts from memoirs as prompts for writing short pieces which will be shared (if they prefer not to share\, that’s fine). They will learn a way of “revisioning” their work that will include both cutting out the extraneous and deepening the story with images. We’ll discuss the possibilities of form\, the struggle for meaning\, and how creative storytelling and truth intersect. \nMaterials:  \nIf we were live\, I’d bring some materials\, but since we’re working virtually\, here’s what you’ll need:  \n1) Favorite writing tools – eg: pens\, pencils\, paper\, notebook.  2) Something to draw with – if you have crayons or markers\, that’s great\, but anything you have is fine. 3)  Drawing or printer paper or other paper without lines. (No drawing ability required.) You may want more room than 8 x 11\, – you could use the backs of wrapping paper\, paper bag\, etc – be creative   4)  If you have some index cards\, that would be great\, but paper or a notebook is fine if you don’t have them.  \nCheryl Savageau (French/Abenaki) is the author of Out of the Crazywoods\,  a memoir that navigates her experience of living with bipolar/manic depressive illness; and three collections of poetry: Mother/Land\, Dirt Road Home\, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Home Country.  She has won Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program\, and is a three-time fellow at MacDowell.  Her children’s book\, Muskrat Will Be Swimming\, was a Smithsonian Notable Book and won the Skipping Stones Award for children’s environmental literature and the Wordcraft Circle’s Best Children’s Book of the Year Award.  She is former editor of Dawnland Voices 2.0. She teaches Indigenous literatures and creative writing at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. \nOUT OF THE CRAZYWOODS by CHERYL SAVAGEAU  \n \nvisit here to order book: https://cherylsavageaublog.wordpress.com/ \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/memoir-workshop-telling-stories-finding-meaning
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Stephanie Shafran
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nThursday\, November 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \n*We have changed our usual Tuesday to a Thursday due to the election. \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Stephanie Shafran \nStephanie Shafran lives in Western MA. Her poetry and prose have appeared in anthologies such as Straw Dog’s Compass Roads and Ophelia’s Mom\, edited by Nina Shandler. And in journals such as Earth’s Daughters\, Whirlwind Review\, Slant and Silkworm. Her poem Pears received an honorable mention in Writers’ Digest’s 2001 non-rhyming poetry competition.  \nLast year\, Stephanie’s poem After “Since Unfinished” by Richard Blanco won 3rd place in the Robert P. Collén Poetry Competition; recently she was a semi-finalist in River Styx’s Microfiction Contest. \nStephanie published Awakening this spring.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-stephanie-shafran
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201101T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Jan Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. \nYou can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \n\n\n\nJan Freeman is a poet and the former director of Paris Press (1995–2018)\, which is now an imprint of Wesleyan University Press. She is the recipient of a 2020–2021 Associateship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Her recent book of poems\, Blue Structure (Calypso Editions) was nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award\, and championed by Ilya Kaminsky. She is the author of Simon Says\, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hyena\, recipient of the Cleveland State Poetry Center poetry prize; and the chapbook Autumn Sequence. She has received fellowships from Moulin a Nef\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Wurlitzer Foundation\, and other artist residencies. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals\, including American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The Women’s Review of Books\, The Southern Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Plume\, and most recently POETRY Magazine and Salamander. Her poems are forthcoming in the anthology Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest (Winter 2021). She is at work on a new collection of poems\, Mobius.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-jan-freeman
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T200000
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SUMMARY:Swirl & Vortex Poetry Workshop with Patrick Donnelly
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry\, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books\, 2019)\, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books\, 2017)\, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012\, a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, and The Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place\, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts. Donnelly’s awards include the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature\, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at www.patrickdonnellypoetry.com \nRegister in advance for this Zoom meeting HERE \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/swirl-vortex-poetry-workshop-with-patrick-donnelly
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T200000
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SUMMARY:SDWG ANNUAL MEETING
DESCRIPTION:October 15\, 2020 at 7pm \nhosted on Zoom \nCome discuss ways Straw Dog Writers Guild can further sustain and inspire your writing! \nJoin us in our 10th year anniversary as we gather to elect new board members and officers\, and discuss our goals moving forward as an anti-racist organization. \nOpen to all members\, join us! \nto sign up to attend please email admin@strawdogwriters.org
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/sdwg-annual-meeting
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In – Featured Reader Eileen Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nOctober 6 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Eileen Kennedy \nEileen P. Kennedy is a poet and academic who has focused on the writing process. Her former partner died of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 69 and this collection is based on those experiences.  Her first book\, Banshees (Flutter Press\, 2015) was nominated for a Pushcart and awarded Second Prize from the Wordwrite Books Award in Poetry. She holds a doctorate in language and literacy and has published a textbook\, fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she canoes\, hikes\, and writes. She winters in Costa Rica.  More at EileenPKennedy.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-eileen-kennedy
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201004T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Cheryl J. Fish
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4\, 2-4 p.m.\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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \nCheryl J. Fish is an environmental justice scholar\, poet and fiction writer. She is the author of the new collection\, CRATER & TOWER\, from Duck Lake Books\, poems reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens Volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11/01. She published the chapbook Make It Funny\, Make it Last (#171\, Belladonna) and her poems have recently appeared in the electronic version of The Poetics-for-the-More-than-Human-World Anthology forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press.. Her next book of poems\, The Sauna is Full of Maids\, will feature poems and photographs from her research and travels in Finland. Cheryl’s short stories have appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review\, CheapPopLit\, and Liars League NYC. Her debut novel OFF THE YOGA MAT\, is forthcoming from Livingston Books in 2022. She has published essays on environmental justice in film\, photography\, architecture\, and literature in books\, journals\, and blogs. Fish has been Fulbright professor in Finland\, writer-in-residence at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and she is professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, City University of New York\, and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-cheryl-j-fish
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200901T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Ellen Meeropol
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nSeptember @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday\, September on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In. \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nGeneral donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n  \n \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\, and Mom Egg Review. 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.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/10078
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200804T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200804T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Virginia Macgregor
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nAugust @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday\, August on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In. \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nGeneral donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n \nFeatured Reader: Virginia Macgregor \nVirginia Macgregor is the author of What Milo Saw\, The Return of Norah Wells\, Before I Was Yours\, You Found Me and two novels for young adults Wishbones and As Far as the Stars. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. After graduating from Oxford University\, she taught English in three British boarding schools.  She holds an MA in Creative Writing. Virginia now lives in New Hampshire with her husband and their three small children. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-virginia-macgregor
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200802T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200802T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns with featured reader Terry S. Johnson
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on August 2\, 2-4 p.m. \nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown. \n  \nFeatured Reader: Terry S. Johnson \n“In Terry S. Johnson’s PLUNGE\, personal history\, family history\, and public history commingle—always strikingly\, always surprisingly. Think of this book as a family photo album\, in which both the sepia images of the poet’s father—war hero\, pilot\, POW—and the Polaroids depicting the poet’s own youth\, speak to one another across time. This passage is achieved through imaginative daring\, but also through a sure and steady lyric acuity. PLUNGE honors the past with vigor\, invention\, and a big-hearted generosity of spirit.”   DAVID WOJAHN \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-with-featured-reader-terry-s-johnson
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200730T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T054758
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SUMMARY:Optimizing Your Online Presence - For Writers 
DESCRIPTION:Register for the free workshop: \nRegister here! \nPlease use the comments section of your registration form if you have specific questions you would like addressed during this workshop. \nOptimizing Your Online Presence – For Writers \nwith Fungai Tichawangana \nI recently heard that Jacqueline Sheehan\, in speaking about getting published by a traditional media house\, once said\, “It used to be like a first-class ticket. Everything was taken care of. These days\, you even get to change the oil.” \nWriters are expected to not just write books anymore. We are called on to be marketers\, PR people\, and event organizers. This workshop will look at the importance of an online presence for writers and ways to optimize it. \nThe Workshop  \nThe workshop will cover such areas as: \nWhat sort of website do you need?\nDo you need social media? Is there an alternative?\nHow easy are you to find online?\nHow easy are you to support online?\nHow much time do you spend supporting other writers online? \n  \nThe Facilitator \nFungai Tichawangana is a journalist\, writer\, and web developer who has lived in Amherst for two years. In 2015\, he was awarded a Nieman Journalism Fellowship and Berkman-Klein Fellowship for Journalism Innovation at Harvard University based on work he had done in Zimbabwe documenting arts and culture online for over ten years. Zimbo Jam\, the arts & culture website he launched in 2008\, has won four National Arts Merit Awards for online arts journalism. He has also developed websites\, website content\, and social media plans for numerous organizations in Zimbabwe\, South Africa\, the United Kingdom\, the Netherlands\, and Kenya.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/online-presence-for-writers-workshop
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200707T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In - Featured Reader Michael Goldman
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJuly 7 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In.  \nRSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. \nOnly those who RSVP will be able to attend. \nTen names will be randomly selected. \nThe reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Michael Favala Goldman \nMichael Favala Goldman is a widely-published translator of Danish literature\, a poet and\na jazz clarinetist. Over 130 of Michael’s translations and poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review\, World Literature Today\, and The International Poetry Review. He has translated 15 books of Danish poetry and prose\, and he runs poetry workshops twice a month at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Michael published his first full-length book of poetry\, Who has time for this? It was published in March by Spuyten Duyvil Press.  \n\nHave you ever struggled to find time for discovery? Not only do these poems in Who has time for this not waste your time\, they open like windows\, both outward and inward. Each page shines light on the quirkiness of family\, love\, creativity\, and\, of course\, the passage of time.  \n\nAs a special offer\, Michael has signed copies available for $10 + shipping. Contact Michael by email: hammerandhorn@gmail.com – For other purchases go here or Amazon \nCheck out his web page to see a list of his many translations  – www.hammerandhorn.net
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-featured-reader-michael-goldman
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200705T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200705T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader John T. Howard
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on July 5\, 2-4 p.m.\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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nFeatured Reader: John T. Howard is Assistant Director for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Wellspring House Retreat. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. He writes poetry and prose\, and he is at work on a first novel\, a first collection of short stories\, and a first book of poems. As a Colombian-American writer\, his work often draws on connections between Latin American and Latinx experiences\, as well as the interplay of identity politics and family dynamics in multi-generational immigrant narratives. His work can be found at Indiana Review\, World Literature Today\, The Mercurian\, and forthcoming in the anthology MVICW Community & Craft
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-johnhoward
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200622T203000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED/“Swirl and Vortex” - Craft Workshop with Patrick Donnelly
DESCRIPTION:Regrettably\, Patrick has had to cancel “Swirl and Vortex”: The Poem That Braids Together Multiple Contrasting Narratives or Materials on Monday\, June 22 due to a non-Covid related illness.  \nStay tuned to www.strawdogwriters.org for future events.  \nThank you\,\nBeth Filson\n  \n“Swirl and Vortex”: The Poem That Braids Together Multiple Contrasting Narratives or Materials with Patrick Donnelly \nCraft Workshop for Poets Announced! \nStraw Dog Writers Guild is delighted to announce an online workshop offered by poet Patrick Donnelly\, “Swirl and Vortex”: The Poem That Braids Together Multiple Contrasting Narratives or Materials June 22 from 7:00pm – 8:30pm.  \nWe hope you will consider donating any amount to this and other programs offered by Straw Dog Writers Guild here:  http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n Some poems focus narrowly on one story or set of material. Others seek to braid together two or three stories or sets of contrasting material. We’ll look at poems by Larry Levis\, Adrienne Rich\, and Diane Seuss\, to discover how poems get a tremendous burst of emotional/intellectual energy when a common thread is revealed in seemingly unrelated stories or materials. \n  \nPATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry\, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books\, 2019)\, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books\, 2017)\,  Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012)\, and The Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press)\, which was a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place\, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts. (This year’s Seminar is August 2 – 7\, and will take place online: https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar/) Donnelly’s awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award\, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at www.patrickdonnellypoetry.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/swirl-and-vortex-craft-workshop-with-patrick-donnelly
LOCATION:ZOOM\, MA
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200607T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200607T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Rebecca Daniels
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works:  \nWe will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on June 7\, 2-4 p.m.\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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nRebecca Daniels (MFA\, PhD) taught performance\, writing\, and speaking in several liberal arts universities for over 25 years\, including St. Lawrence University from 1992-2015. She was the founding producing director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland\, OR\, and directed with many professional Portland theatre companies in the 1980s. In 2015\, she retired from teaching and moved to the Pioneer Valley\, and during their 2019 season\, she served as co-producer for Silverthorne Theater Company in Greenfield\, MA. She is the author of the groundbreaking Women Stage Directors Speak (McFarland\, 1996)\, and has been published in multiple professional theatre journals. She is currently working on two full-length plays and recently completed a memoir\, Finding Sisters\, that explores how DNA testing helped her find her genetic parents and other relatives in spite of being given up for a closed adoption at birth. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-rebecca-daniels
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T054758
CREATED:20200522T140303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200522T143614Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Fellowship Program Virtual Launch
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild \nEmerging Writers Fellowship Program Virtual Launch Event\nMeet Amina Jordan-Mendez\, 2020 Fellow \n  \nWednesday\, June 3 @ 7 p.m. \nWATCH:  https://www.facebook.com/strawdogwriters/\n\nJoin Straw Dog Writers Guild as we celebrate the inaugural year of our Emerging Writers Fellowship Program! The event will feature a conversation with Amina Jordan-Mendez\, 2020 Fellow\, and Dr. Diana Alvarez\, who serves as one of Amina’s mentors. \nTo receive a reminder: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-writers-fellowship-program-virtual-launch-event-tickets-105318033072?ref=estw \nTo donate to SDWG’s Emerging Writers Fellowship Fund\, please visit:\nhttp://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nAmina Jordan-Mendez\, Poet Performer \nWriting poetry since childhood and called to perform by community\, family\, and their ancestors\, Amina Nia “illypsis” Jordan-Mendez lives for passion & healing. Born and raised in a predominantly white college town of western MA\, Amina grew up a rebel: Black\, fat\, queer and existing. Inviting the challenge\, she chose to live out loud—swim with her hair out\, throw her weight around\, question and confront. Now a focused poet performer\, their hands are busy rooting themselves in intergenerational healing of their lineage\, embracing the pain\, hostility\, pleasure and pride of blossoming into a poet she can look up to. Amina Nia “illypsis” Jordan-Mendez is tender\, grateful\, angry\, loving and growing. They are currently attending workshops as they come and fitting art within their busy schedule of work and self-care\, addressing mental health and traumas. Born to a first-generation Panamanian mother\, and an “army brat” southern Black American father\, she is exploring and defining ‘home’ in her body\, in her life and in this world. \n\n \nDr. Diana Alvarez \n \nwww.diana-alvarez.com  \nDr. Diana Alvarez is a singer-songwriter\, poet\, composer\, filmmaker\, educator\, and scholar whose fierce Xicana Xingona voice creates a gripping atmosphere that audiences call “transcendent.” Alvarez’s soulful\, Spanglish songs exalt queer love and liberation\, and are drawn from her origins in the borderlands of South Texas\, where she grew up singing to the Gulf of Mexico. \n\nIn her music\, Alvarez grapples with her solo migration to the Northeast as a means to shift the tides of oppression in her family and beyond. Her songs are offerings for chosen familia\, and honor the “in-between-ness” of culture\, identity\, and language.\n\nDr. Alvarez is the composer and filmmaker behind the multimedia performance\, Quiero Volver: A Xicanx Ritual Opera. Described by the press as “a visually and acoustically stunning performance meant to honor women\, non-binary and genderqueer people of color\,” Quiero Volver features Alvarez’s original music\, sonic text scores\, a poem-script for ensemble performance\, and documentary video portraits of Sharon Bridgforth\, Magdalena Gómez\, Vick Quezada\, and Nicole M. Young. In 2018\, Quiero Volver was produced at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton\, MA by grassroots organizers and Smith College\, and raised over $10\,000 to support immigrant justice initiatives.\n \n  \nAbout the Emerging Writers Fellowship Program \n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild’s Emerging Writers Fellowship is intended to support women and gender nonbinary writers of color based in Western Massachusetts at the early stages of their career. Hosted biennially\, this program was created to help emerging writers negotiate barriers that often prevent them from pursuing publication and public access to their work. The Emerging Writers Fellowship Program was created by local performance poet and playwright\, Nicole M. Young\, with generous support from members of Straw Dog Writers Guild and our Pioneer Valley community.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/virtuallaunch
LOCATION:Facebook
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Luke Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJune 2 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nLuke Salisbury is the author of the cult classic The Answer Is Baseball\, and four works of fiction\, No Common War\, called “one of the best war novels in decades” by Forword Reviews\, The Cleveland Indian\, nominated for a Casey Award\, Blue Eden\, and Hollywood & Sunset\, which was selected as Book of the Year (Fiction 2006) by Online Review of Books & Current Affairs\, and won Best Historical Fiction 2006 from USABookNews.  He has taught Shakespeare at Bunker Hill Community College and is on the board of the Actors Shakespeare Project. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-luke-salisbury
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In! (online)- Featured Reader Lori Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nMarch 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday May 5th on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nFeatured Reader: Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter\, Salmon Poetry\, 2013\, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak\, Salmon Poetry\, 2016 and Keeping Planes in the Air\, Salmon 2020. Two chapbooks\, Inner Sky and typing with e.e. cummings\, are from Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and teaches in the Lesley University M.F.A. program. She edits Naugatuck River Review\, a journal of narrative poetry and Wordpeace.co\, an online journal dedicated to social justice. She lives and writes in Westfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-lori-desrosiers
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T160000
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SUMMARY:ZOOM - Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Chris O’Carroll
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on May 3\, 2-4 p.m.\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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \nFeatured Reader: Chris O’Carroll is the author The Joke’s on Me (White Violet Press\, 2019).  He is a Light magazine featured poet whose work has appeared The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, New York City Haiku\, and Poems for a Liminal Age\, among other collections.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-chris-ocarroll
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Read/Hilltown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T054758
CREATED:20200407T192616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200407T193834Z
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SUMMARY:Making Effective Submissions - Online Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to get your writing published in literary journals? In this workshop\, learn the basics of making submissions to find an audience for your work. We will cover establishing goals\, preparing and sending submissions\, and managing responses. \nPlease be in touch with us HERE if you would like to attend.   \nWe will send you an invite via email with the Zoom link to attend before the workshop. \n\nMichael Favala Goldman is a poet\, educator and widely-published translator of Danish literature. Over 140 of his translations and poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals\, such as The Harvard Review and World Literature Today.  He has written one collection of original poetry\, Who has time for this? and fifteen translated books.\nwww.hammerandhorn.net \n  \nBeth Filson is a bookseller\, educator\, writer\, and self-taught artist. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Beth won the 2016 Wild Light Poetry contest sponsored by Red Hen Press and the Los Angeles Review. Starting out\, Beth’s short stories have been finalists in both Red Book Magazine and in Mademoiselle Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, and Naugatuck River Review\, among others. Her poetry was anthologized in Straw Dog Writers Guild’s Compass Roads edited by by Jane Yolen\, and in Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley 2017 from Gallery of Readers Press.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/making-effective-submissions-online-workshop
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In - Something New!
DESCRIPTION:Okay so ….  WNO is canceled for April but we are not giving in to the pandemic. We are trying something new\, our version of Selected Shorts (NPR)\, or Writers’ Night In. \nHere’s how it will work. Send us your 5-minute piece (please time it)\, prose or poetry (not more than 2 poems) and we will pull 10 names out of the hat\, just like we always do. Except this time\, your words will be read by two theatrically influenced readers. We will record the event and post it on our Straw Dog You Tube channel. \nInstructions: Send a word doc of your prose or poetry\, as an attachment\, to jac.sheehan@comcast.net by April 7
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-in-something-new
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on April 5\, 2-4 p.m.\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. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown  \nJan 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 Plattburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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