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SUMMARY:March Medley Workshop - How to Speak in Public with Nicole M. Young
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/march-medley-workshop-how-to-speak-in-public-with-nicole-m-young
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:March Medley Workshop - Rivers\, Bridges & Spines Workshop with Janet E. Aalfs and  María Luisa Arroyo
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/rivers-bridges-spines-workshop-with-janet-e-aalfs-and-maria-luisa-arroyo
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Susanne Dunlap
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf 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 of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n \nSusanne Dunlap is the author of nine historical novels for adults and teens. Her young adult historical novel\, The Musician’s Daughter\, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year. It was also nominated for the Missouri Gateway Readers Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her YA novel In the Shadow of the Lamp was an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award nominee\, and her adult historical novel\, Listen to the Wind was a quarterfinalist for the BookLife prize and a Distinguished Favorite in the NY Big Book Awards. \nSusanne lives and writes in Northampton\, MA\, teaches writing workshops locally and also works as an editor and book coach. With a BA and MA from Smith College and a PhD in music history from Yale University\, Susanne brings a deep love of learning and teaching to all her literary endeavors.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-susanne-dunlap
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T140000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader Faith Kindness
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15.\n\n\nLong-time resident of Western Massachusetts\, Faith Dickhaut Kindness is a visual artist\, teacher\, former librarian\, and writer whose memoir in poetry is entitled The Art of Waiting.  \n“In the late 60s during the Vietnam War\,” she writes\, “I was a young wife on Okinawa. The subject matter of The Art of Waiting is based on two years in her twenties when life took a direction she hadn’t previously encountered and she simultaneously faced two unknown mindsets – that of the military and that of living in a foreign culture.  \nWhen we first arrived back in the U.S. people weren’t ready to hear the stories I was bursting to tell. Writing this book became a cathartic journey that has “released my psyche to heal.” The book is organized in roughly chronological sections with headings like a symphony. Theme and variation twine through the pages that cover the loneliness of separation\, being reunited abroad but not having what military brass considered a necessary function\, my questioning what the U.S. was doing in what felt an unpopular war\, and lingering effects of that experience after returning home. \nHer work has been published in Equinox\, Wise Woman Journal\, and Silkworm as well as being included in the Straw Dog Writers Guild anthology Compass Roads. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-faith-kindness
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:March Medley Workshop - Screenwriting Basics - Pamela Marin
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/screenwriting-basics-pamela-marin
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion - The Novel: the Long Haul
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable Discussion – The Novel: the Long Haul\n\nThe novel is a unique project that can take years from that first seed of inspiration to getting it out into the world. Come join other writers\, as well as published authors\, at our round table discussion to find out the different approaches\, skills\, and supports that help a write work through and complete such a project. \nThe Novel: the Long Haul.\nAt Lilly Library\, Florence\nOn Saturday\, February 8\, 2020\n10:30 – 12:00
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-discussion-the-novel-the-long-haul
LOCATION:Lily Library\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Julia McKenzie Munemo
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf 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 of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n2016 Julia Munemo\nJulia McKenzie Munemo went to Bard College before earning a master’s in education at Harvard. After building a career as a freelance writer\, she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine.  \nMunemo won the Bridging the Gap Competition for nonfiction at the Slice Literary Writers’ Conference in 2016; was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Oakley Center for Humanities; and was selected as the nonfiction reader for the Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reunion in 2017 and as the Stonecoast alumni teaching assistant in 2018. She currently works as the interim director of the Williams College Writing Workshops and as a writer for the Williams College Magazine. She teaches courses in creative nonfiction. \nThe Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race\, Love\, and Legacy is her first book. She lives in Williamstown\, Ma. with her husband and sons. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-5
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Suzanne S. Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nMs. Rancourt\, Abenaki/Huron descent\, is a multi-modal Expressive Arts Therapist and CASAC with degrees in psychology\, and creative writing.  Her book\, Billboard in the Clouds\, Curbstone Press\, (now in its 2nd print at NU Press\,) received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. Her 2nd\, murmurs at the gate\, Unsolicited Press\, released in 2019. Ms. Rancourt’s work is internationally published.  She is a USMC and Army Veteran who continues to serve as a Mentor for the Saratoga County Veterans’ Peer to Peer program. To view Ms. Rancourt’s philosophies\, practices\, creative works\, please visit her website: www.expressive-arts.com \n  \n . 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-suzanne-s-rancourt
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T183000
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:6th Annual Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Showcase \n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild is planning their Sixth Annual Author Showcase for new authors. The showcase features Straw Dog members with a new book published in the last two years.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/6th-annual-authors-showcase
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jovonna Van Pelt
DESCRIPTION:Jovonna Van Pelt considered a college degree for a career in Journalism but was advised that she wasn’t tough enough; it may even have been true. Instead\, she earned her MA degree in Ethics. Through the years\, her writing has served colleagues\, non-profits\, corporations\, and puppeteers. Jo started writing for herself in 2014 and has since been a finalist in the Poet’s Seat competition\, a frequent contributor to poetry open mics and area word fests\, and a selected poet in the SDWG anthology Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen. Unrelated Questions is her first published volume of poetry. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. \nIf 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. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jovonna-van-pelt
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Libby Maxey
DESCRIPTION:Libby Maxey\, of Conway\, MA\, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama; she also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice\, and her own poems have appeared in Crannóg\, Kestrel\, Naugatuck River Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Emrys and elsewhere. Her first chapbook\, Kairos\, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Locally\, she has won both the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest and the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest\, and her work was selected for the Northampton Arts Council’s 2017 Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-libby-maxey
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Karen Skolfield
DESCRIPTION:Karen Skolfield’s 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\, and she is the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-karen-skolfield
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader: Alexis Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years.  Her undergraduate degree in in languages and linguistics. Her double masters is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Spanish. Before that she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years.  Her first book\,Playing With A Full Deck\, is a wry look at her experiences in 52 short essays. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-alexis-johnson
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191116T010000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Meet-Up - Registration now Open for Nov & Dec 2019
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Critique Meet-Ups – registration now open for Nov and Dec\n\nLoading…
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-meet-up-registration-now-open-for-nov-dec-2019
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T130000
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SUMMARY:"Mastering Beginnings and Endings in Your Writing" Workshop with Kate Senecal
DESCRIPTION:“Ann Hood once wrote that Beginnings “put into motion the events that will drive the story to its resolution. And the resolution is often the inverse of the opening. ”  \n\nCome join Kate Senecal on Sunday\, November 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts for this writing workshop. She’ll investigate the connection between the beginnings and endings of works of fiction\, discuss how to write opening and closing lines that draw the reader in and leave them satisfied. Kate will look at beginnings and endings with an eye toward finding connections and identifying how the language anchors the story. This class will include writing exercises\, discussion\, and short readings. \nFree and open to the public – No pre-registration. We look forward to seeing you there!  \nKate Senecal received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the Assistant Director of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, and a workshop facilitator for Writers for Recovery in Vermont. Her fiction has been published in The Laurel Review\, The Foundling Review\, and in Storychord.com\, where she was the fiction editor for two years.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/november2019
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary A Koncel
DESCRIPTION:Mary A. Koncel has published three books of prose poetry – Closer to Day (Quale Press)\, You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press)\, and The Last Blonde (Hedgerow Books). She was a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Denver Review\, Barrow Street\, The Prose Poem: An International Journal\, and No Boundaries:Prose Poems by 25 American Poets. Mary is a staff member with the American Wild Horse Campaign.  She lives in Worthington\, MA with her husband and many animals.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-a-koncel
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Janet MacFayden
DESCRIPTION:Janet MacFadyen is the author of four poetry collections\, including Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017)\, In the Provincelands (Slate Roof 2012)\, and A Newfoundland Journal (Killick Press 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It also has been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50\, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review\, Crannóg\, The Malahat Review\, Osiris\, Poetry\, The Southern Poetry Review\, Sweet\, Terrain\, and elsewhere. In addition to a nine-month fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, she has had residencies at Cill Rialaig in Ireland and the Fowler and C-Scape dune shacks in Provincetown. She is the managing editor of the poetry collaborative\, Slate Roof Press. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-janet-macfayden
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T113000
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2019
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our annual meeting. This is a time to have the community come together and discuss ways in which Straw Dog can further support the writing community in Western MA. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/annual-meeting-2019
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T233000
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SUMMARY:Dead Writers Dance - Literary Halloween
DESCRIPTION:DEAD WRITERS DANCE – Literary Halloween!\n\nLOTS OF FUN TO BE HAD! \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/dead-writers-dance-literary-halloween
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader D. Dina Friedman
DESCRIPTION:D. Dina Friedman has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and published in many literary journals including Lilith\, Negative Capability\, The Sun\, Common Ground Review\, San Pedro River Review\, Steam Ticket\, New Plains Review\, Blue Stem\, Red Booth Review\, Bloodroot\, Anderbo\, and Rhino. Dina is also the author of two award-winning young adult novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux).  Wolf in the Suitcase is her first book of poetry. Dina moved with her husband to western Massachusetts 38 years ago because it was “a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks.” She currently lives in Hadley\, next door to a farm with 500 cows. She has an MFA from Lesley University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. To learn more about Dina\, visit her website at http://www.ddinafriedman.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-d-dina-friedman
LOCATION:Ashfield Community Hall\, \, 521 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Andrea Hairston
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Hairston is a playwright and novelist. She is author of Will Do Magic For Small Change\, a finalist for the Mythopoeic\, Lambda\, and Tiptree Awards\, a Massachusetts Must Read\, and a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her other novels include: Redwood and Wildfire\, winner of the Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards\, and Mindscape\, winner of the Carl Brandon Award. Lonely Stardust\, a collection of essays and plays\, was published by Aqueduct press. Her play\, Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre\, appears in Geek Theater — 15 Plays by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. “Griots of the Galaxy\,” a short story\, appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future. A novelette\, “Saltwater Railroad\,” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. Her next novel\, Master of Poisons\, will be published by Tor/Macmillan in 2020. In her spare time\, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She bikes at night year round\, meeting bears\, multi-legged creatures of light and breath\, and the occasional shooting star.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-andrea-hairston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:125th Anniversary - Forbes Library - Reading of local authors
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/125th-anniversary-forbes-library-reading-of-local-authors
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Reading by local authors for Forbes Library 125th anniversary!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/reading-by-local-authors-for-forbes-library-125th-anniversary
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T123000
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SUMMARY:Good Storytelling in Nonfiction With Suzanne Strempek Shea
DESCRIPTION:At the Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St. Northampton\, MA \nFREE TO ATTEND – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nIt goes without saying (at least for this writer) that nonfiction – about yourself\, someone else\, something else – needs to be the truth\, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But don’t forget that your true story needs also to be one that’s well told. Too often\, stories are thrown onto the page by writers who lean on their subjects for impact and then neglect that the combination of subject and storytelling is key to the best of nonfiction. We’ll look at age-old storytelling elements and what they can bring to your nonfiction\, and we’ll examine successful essays\, stories\, and books\, those featuring great subjects paired with great execution\, and delivered in manners compelling and solid\, as well as unexpected and unusual. \nHandy handouts will be distributed. \nSuzanne Strempek Shea’s eleven books include novels\, memoirs\, and general nonfiction\, the most recent title being “This Is Paradise: An Irish Mother’s Grief\, an African Village’s Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brough Fresh Hope to Both.” Her freelance journalism and fiction has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Boston Globe\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, The Irish Times\, Yankee\, Golf World\, Down East\, The Bark\, Organic Style\, and ESPN the Magazine. Suzanne is a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing. She is writer-in-residence and director of the creative writing program at Bay Path University in Longmeadow\, Mass\, and leads Bay Path’s annual summer writing seminar in Dingle\, Ireland. \nFor additional information\, please visit: http://www.suzannestrempekshea.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/good-storytelling-in-nonfiction-with-suzanne-strempek-shea
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Trish Crapo
DESCRIPTION:Trish Crapo – Poet\, writer\, collage artist\, and photographer Trish Crapo was educated at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Author of the recently republished chapbookWalk through Paradise Backwards from Slate Roof Press (2004 and 2018)\, she has had work featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column\, “American Life in Poetry\,” and in Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women (2002).\n\nShe is a member of Exploded View\, a dynamic group of women poets and artists working together to create original exhibitions and performance. Crapo lives on an organic farm in Leyden\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-trish-crapo
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader James Arthur
DESCRIPTION:Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The New York Review of Books\, The American Poetry Review\, The New Republic\, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship\, a Hodder Fellowship\, a Stegner Fellowship\, a Discovery/The Nation Prize\, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland\, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College\, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore\, where he teaches at in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-james-arthur
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joan Livingston
DESCRIPTION:Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers. The first two books in her Isabel Long mystery series are Chasing the Case and Redneck’s Revenge (Crooked Cat Books). Checking the Traps has a 2019 release. \nHer other books include The Sweet Spot and Peace\, Love & You Know What. A journalist for over thirty years\, she started as a hilltown reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Most recently she was managing editor of The Taos News. After over a decade in New Mexico\, she returned to rural Western Mass.\, which is the setting for much of her fiction\, including the Isabel Long series. \nFor more\, visit www.joanlivingston.net. Follow her on Twitter @joanlivingston.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-joan-livingston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Amy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared inSilkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,”2018\, have been published through human Error Press. “Silence is Premeditated” is forthcoming in 2019. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190707T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190707T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Christian McEwen
DESCRIPTION:July 7 Writers Read/Hilltowns \nChristian McEwen is a freelance writer\, workshop leader\, and cultural activist\, originally from the UK. She is the author of several books\, including World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down\, now in its sixth printing. Her new book\, Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money\, appeared in April 2019. Get more information at www.christianmcewen.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-christian-mcewen
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190702T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Howard Faerstein
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader – Howie Faerstein \nHoward Faerstein’s first book of poetry\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, was published in 2013 by Press 53. A second collection\, Googootz\, and Other Poems came out in September 2018. His work can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review\, Nimrod\, CutThroat\, Off the Coast\, Rattle\, upstreet\, Mudfish and on-line in Gris-Gris\, Peacock Journal\, and Connotation. \nConsidering himself an “adjunct emeritus\,” he is presently volunteering as a citizenship mentor at the Center for New Americans and is Associate Poetry Editor of CutThroat\, A Journal of theArts. After living in Brooklyn for fifty years\, he now lives in Florence\, Massachusetts. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-howard-faerstein
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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