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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
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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!
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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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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190702T210000
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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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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous Open Mic/Featured Reader
DESCRIPTION:Dina Stander is a practitioner of radical kinship. Her favorite day jobs have been a school bus driver and hospital chaplain. Her first book of poems ‘Old Bones & True Stories was published in 2018 (Human Error Publishing). She is an end-of-life navigator\, a nondenominational Celebrant\, and maker of burial shrouds. You can read her sporadic blog posts at www.dinastander.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/8204
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190623T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190623T150000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Ritual: A Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/the-poetry-ritual-a-reading
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190615T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190615T120000
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion - Summer Goals
DESCRIPTION:Come join a roundtable to discuss your hopes and challenges in writing during the busy summer months. We will converse and share fellow writers’ ways and working routines as well as share ideas on maneuvering through difficult schedules. At the end of the discussion\, participants will be asked to set a writing goal for the summer’s end. In the fall\, a follow-up roundtable will meet to discuss participants’ progress.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-discussion-summer-goals
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190605T210000
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SUMMARY:Voices for Resistance - a Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed readers include:\nAndrea Hairston\, Chivas Sandage\, Christopher J. Sparks\, Doug Anderson\, Ilina Singh\, India Smith\, John Sheirer\, Kent Alexander\, Lanette Sweeney\, Maria Luisa Arroyo\,  Marya Zilberberg\, Mary Warren Foulk\, Nicole M. Young\,  Patrick Donnelly\, & Theresa Vincent
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/voices-for-resistance-a-celebration
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190604T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Patrick Donnelly
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!  \nFeatured Reader Patrick Donnelly  \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\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, andThe 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. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7927
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
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. \nFeatured Reader Dr. Mary Clare Powell taught for 30 years at Lesley University (Cambridge\, MA) in the Creative Arts in Learning program\, a Master’s program for teachers. She has published books on women and the future; the arts\, education\, and social change; and two books of poetry–Things Owls AteandAcademic Scat—and two chapbooks–In the Living Room\,andBox of Water. Everyday Ecstasy is her collection of poems about aging\, which she has found to be rich\, stimulating\, and even fun\, in spite of losses of all kinds.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190526T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190526T163000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Tommy Twilite
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376\n\n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n\n\nFeatured Reader –\nTommy Twilite (aka Tom Clark)  is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society.  He is also the host of the “Twilite Poetry Pub” on WXOJ Valley Free Radio\, and the editor of “Silkworm”.  He attended Westfield State College and Umass until he dropped out in the early 1980’s to form a punk rock band.  Tommy is well known in the Western Mass area for his various musical projects and his powerful poetry readings.  He has published several chapbooks and his poetry has appeared in various publications.  Tommy recently retired as a Fire Captain / EMT from the Northampton Fire Department after a 30+ year career of dedicated service.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-tommy-twilite
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T123000
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SUMMARY:"To Refract Our Complex Identities: Write an American Ghazal”
DESCRIPTION:  \nPhoto by Joyce Skowyra\nMaría Luisa Arroyo – Born in Manatí\, PR & raised in Springfield\, MA\, María Luisa Arroyo was educated at Colby (BA)\, Tufts (MA) & Harvard (ABD) in German\, her third language. She earned her MFA from the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College. In recognition of her numerous poetry community workshops & readings – many in partnership with the Springfield Public Library – Arroyo was named Poet Laureate (2014-2016) of Springfield and 2016 NEPR Arts & Humanities Award recipient. Her poems appear in many journals such as The Common\, CALYX\, PALABRA\, and CHEST: An American Journal for Chest Physicians. Destierro Means More than Exile is her latest chapbook. Her other collections include her chapbook Flight (Thousand Hands Press\, 2016) and her full-length collection\, Gathering Words: Recogiendo palabras (Bilingual Review/Press\, 2008). Currently\, she is Assistant Professor of Writing & FYS at Bay Path University in Longmeadow\, MA and lives in Springfield\, her hometown.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/to-refract-our-complex-identities-write-an-american-ghazal
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Charlie Bondhus
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!  \nFeatured Reader Charlie Bondhus \n \nCharlie Bondhus is the author of All the Heat We Could Carry\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his Ph.D. in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. He is an associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ).  More at: http://charliebondhus.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-charlie-bondhus
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
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. \nFeatured Reader – Joshua Michael Stewart has had poems published in the Massachusetts Review\, Louisville Review\, Rattle\, Night Train\, Evansville Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems\, Break Every String\, was published by Hedgerow Books in April 2016. He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. He’s a Teacher/Counselor\, working with individuals with special needs. Visit him at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T163000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190213T200308Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Readers Trish Crapo & Janet MacFadyen
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n Trish Crapo grew up in Miami\, Florida and now lives on an organic farm in Leyden\, Massachusetts\, with her husband\, Tom Ashley. They have two grown daughters\, Kate and Liza. Trish is a poet\, arts journalist\, and photographer. She has covered poetry and the arts for the award-winning newspaper\, The Recorder\, reviewed fiction for the Women’s Review of Books\, and has written for other publications including Provincetown Arts and Edible Pioneer Valley. Her 2014 book Dune Shack\, a memoir in text and photos\, chronicles a two-week residency in the wild dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Her Slate Roof chapbook\, Walk Through Paradise Backwards\, was reissued in 2018. \nJanet MacFadyen lives in Shutesbury with her husband\, the photographer Stephen Schmidt. She is the author of five works of poetry\, most recently Adrift in the House of Rocks\, (forthcoming from New Feral Press 2019)\, Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017)\, and In the Provincelands (Slate Roof Press chapbook\, 2012). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It has also been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50\, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review\, Crannóg\, The Malahat Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. She has been a writing fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-trish-crapo-janet-macfadyen
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190309T222217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T211336Z
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SUMMARY:Read it Again! - Workshop with Jane Yolen and Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION: APRIL 28\, 1-3:30pm Workshop / 3:30- 4pm Book Signing.  \nRegistration is FULL –  \nJane Yolen and Lesléa Newman will walk us through the definition and limits of the genre; the parameters of emotion/motion; the range of topics; subgenres without picture books; to rhyme or not to rhyme; how much is too much/too little; and what are the next steps after you have a solid manuscript. They will read to us from their work and provide us with the opportunity to try our hand at writing a picture book\, using prompts that they will provide. We will have the chance to share and give feedback to the writing. \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRegistration is now FULL – 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/read-it-again-workshop-with-jane-yolen-and-leslea-newman
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:20190413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190312T152757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T152757Z
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SUMMARY:There is a Brightness -  Group Poetry Reading by SDWG Poetry Critique Meetup
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/there-is-a-brightness-group-poetry-reading-by-sdwg-poetry-critique-meetup
LOCATION:White Square Books\, 86 Cottage St\, Easthampton\, MA\, 01027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190213T203140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190316T201201Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Gail Thomas
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. \nFeatured Reader – Gail Thomas  \nPoet and teacher Gail Thomas has published four books: Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back(2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley(2001) andFinding the Bear(1997). \nOdd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press\, and its “Little Mommy Sonnets” won Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/ Margaret Prize for Traditional Verse. Also\, Waving Backwas named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival. \nThomas’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’sNarrative Poetry Prize\, the Edward Hearst Prize\, and the Pat Schneider Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s\, has been taught in college courses. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers\, musicians and storytellers in schools\, nursing homes\, hospitals and libraries across the state. \nThomas teaches\, speaks at conferences and poetry festivals\, and reads her work widely in community and academic settings. www.gailthomaspoet.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-gail-thomas
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190129T004400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190302T213758Z
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SUMMARY:What Happens When Your Character Calls 911? Writing Workshop with Jacqueline Sheehan & Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo
DESCRIPTION:What Happens When Your Character Calls 911? \nOn Sunday\, April 7\, from 10 a.m. to noon\, author Jacqueline Sheehan and Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo present an overview of what happens when your character calls 911. This introductory program is designed to help writers increase your understanding of law enforcement and forensics\, with the overall eye on adding authenticity to your fiction. If the police become part of your narrative (as they must if something goes wrong in the lives of the characters) then it is essential to understand contemporary policing in order to create full characters. \nCrime scenes always tell a story\, which shows up as physical evidence\, but also in behavioral clues. The major purpose of the criminal investigation is to gather information\, and Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo will share what might happen in an investigation. We will use several fictional case studies as examples. The workshop will take place at the Northampton Center for the Arts. \nREGISTER HERE \nDetective Sergeant Victor Caputo has worked in Law Enforcement since 2001 and began working for the Northampton Police Department in 2004. In 2005\, he took a Military Leave of Absence to serve with the US Marines in Iraq as a Provisional Military Police Officer\, returning in 2006. He has served as a Bike Patrol Officer\, Field Training Officer\, Sexual Assault Investigator\, Patrol Supervisor and was assigned to the Detective Bureau in 2015. He is a certified instructor in the areas of Defensive Tactics and Firearms and holds masters degrees in Public Administration and Criminal Justice. He grew up in Williamsburg and still resides there with his wife\, Luann and daughter Julia. His favorite book is The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. \n  \n \nJacqueline Sheehan is a New York Times Bestselling author and a psychologist. \nShe is the author of six novels\, writes NPR commentaries\, and essays including the New York Times column\, Modern Love. She is one of the founders and past president of Straw Dog Writers Guild. You can find her at Writer’s Night Out on the first Tuesday evening of the month\, at The Basement in Northampton. Her characters frequently require assistance from the police. She teaches workshops at Writers in Progress in Florence\, MA and will co-lead a writing retreat in Prague in July 2019. www.jacquelinesheehan.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7817
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:20190402T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T182110Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Marion VanArsdell
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!  \nFeatured Reader – Marion VanArsdell is an Early Childhood Special Educator and writer who taught in the Integrated Preschools in Northampton. She designed an intensive full-day program for children on the Autism Spectrum.  \n “I Teached Him to Talk”: Stories of Children with Autism is a collection of stories describing the progress children made in that model program. The book is a resource for families and teachers as they help children move from isolation to interaction. \nMarion is now a Special Education consultant and workshop presenter. She continues to write creative non-fiction and work on a historical fiction manuscript about the Underground Railroad.  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-marion-vanarsdell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T163000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190213T195124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T195131Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n  \nFEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\n .                \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, 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. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190310T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190310T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190114T005606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190309T221926Z
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SUMMARY:Writing for Children Workshop with Lesléa Newman & Jane Yolen
DESCRIPTION:EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED — \nRegistration is FULL – To be added to the waitlist please email info@strawdogwriters.org \nJane Yolen and Lesléa Newman will walk us through the definition and limits of the genre; the parameters of emotion/motion; the range of topics; subgenres without picture books; to rhyme or not to rhyme; how much is too much/too little; and what are the next steps after you have a solid manuscript. They will read to us from their work and provide us with the opportunity to try our hand at writing a picture book\, using prompts that they will provide. We will have the chance to share and give feedback to the writing. \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRegistration is now FULL – To be added to the waitlist please email info@strawdogwriters.org
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writing-for-children-workshop-with-leslea-newman-jane-yolen
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:20190305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
CREATED:20190213T180128Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
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 FEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\nAmy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, 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. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T150125
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T163917Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader S. Forrest Nomakeo
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShirley Forrest Nomakeo received a B.S. in graphic design from Rivier College in Nashua\, N.H. She is the owner of a golf marketing business\, Western Mass Golf\, promoting golf at expos and via radio\, podcasts\, websites\, and print. She has written for her company’s publication\, Western Mass Golf Magazine\, and writes a daily blog about the process of writing a novel and getting it published. The Summer Palace\, a work of historical fiction\, is her first published novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-s-forrest-nomakeo
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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