• Special Celebration of Straw Dog Members

    Michelson Gallery 132 Main St, Northampton, United States

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on September 10, 5-7pm at the beautiful Michelson Gallery on Main Street in Northampton for a special event for members! This is a time to celebrate Straw Dog Writers Guild Members (it’s never too late to become a member) with drinks and appetizers. Our Advisors and community sponsors will be Read More

  • 2024 Residency Writers Read

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    Straw Dog Writers Guild and Edith Wharton’s The Mount present a virtual reading of the 2024 Writers-in-Residency on Saturday, September 14, 4:00-5:15pm. Our 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya, Stevie Billow, Eleanor Fuller, Jason Prokowiew, Mariah Rigg, Whitney Scharer, Mistinguette Smith, Julia Thacker, Jen Alandy Trahan. Register for this free Zoom presentation HERE. To read Read More

  • A Writer’s Night

    The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

    On Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New Read More

  • What Poems Want Reading and Revising with Care

    Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United States

    When giving feedback about poems, we’re often asked to point out what’s “working” and what’s “not working” and discuss revisions that would make poems “stronger.” But what would it mean to enter a different kind of relationship with our writing—one in which we let the poem itself guide us to what it needs? In this Read More

  • Writers Night Out

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half Read More

  • Surprising Readers and Ourselves: Playing with Hermit Crab Essays, Poems, and Stories

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    Upon first glance, “Hermit Crabs” (stories or poems or essays that borrow another “shell” or form, also known as the False Document or Trojan Horse poem or Constraint Essay) look like literary play (and they are fun!). But they’re also great tools to break through writers’ block or overcome resistance to topics that feel heavy, Read More