Straw Dog Writers Guild

Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
2025-12-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | zoom
Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom.
Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com
Format Focus: EVERYONE READS!

Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt.
Read a 3-minute piece
Brief positive responses after readers share
Listeners welcome

Weekly Wednesday Writing Group
2025-12-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-31 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-07 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-14 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-28 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-04 18:30 - 20:00 and 18 more dates | Dalton Free Public Library, 462 Main Street, Dalton, MA, 01226
This Wednesday and every Wednesday: in-person Weekly Wednesday Writing Group at the @daltonfreepubliclibrary

“Curious Writers” will meet at the Dalton Free Public Library on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm for our Weekly Wednesday Writing Group in collaboration with the Dalton Free Public Library.
We will meet for dedicated writing time with a focus on:

getting settled and acquainted
writing goals for the session
one hour of concentrated writing
recap

Bring your laptop, journal, pen, and paper. At this time, the meetings do not include sharing writing for feedback. Feedback will be included if the group decides it would be beneficial (guidelines for feedback will be provided). Spaces limited.

For more information, call 413-684-6112 or email dalton@cwmars.org

Straw Dog Writes Weekly Writers Meet Up
2025-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 | zoom
Straw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a half hour for discussion and chat.
To register and receive the zoom link, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com

A Cosmic Poetry Share
2025-12-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Belding Memorial Library, 344 Main Street, Ashfield, 01330, United States
Groovy! Whether you’ve got poems about stars, planets, cosmic adventures, out of this world encounters, or out of body experiences, we want to hear them! (And you don’t have any of your own, find and read someone else’s poetry.) Come read and listen on Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30-8:00pm in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room with poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building. Treats will be served.

This program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414.
The Library is located at 344 Main St. in Ashfield, MA.
Sponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild

Arianna Alexsandra Collins ~ Naturalist. Writer. Poet. ~ has over 30 years experience in teaching, community engagement, and public ritual. She facilitates quarterly poetry shares at her local library in Ashfield MA and poetry workshops throughout the Hoosic River Watershed. She has a bi-monthly column “Into the Outside” in The Ashfield News and featured articles on wild edible and medicinal flora in MassWildlife, Ecological Landscape Alliance, and Northern Woodlands. Arianna is a contributing author in Nature Portals: Animate Earth Practices and is the author of historical fantasy novel Hearken to Avalon. Read samples of Arianna’s prose and poetry at: https://hearkentoavalon.com

Start Your New Year off “Write!”
2026-01-10 13:00 - 14:30 | MA
Do you want to start writing in 2026? Or do you want to get back to your writing after the busy holiday season?
Join us for this (Zoom) Writing Workshop, Start Your New Year off “Write!”
Saturday, January 10, 2026 1-2:30 PM
Register HERE
Activities and Learning Objectives …

Tips on how to set up and maintain your regular writing schedule
Generative writing prompts—you choose the genre (optional sharing)
Tips and tricks for those days when you have limited time or just don’t want to write

Áine Greaney is an Irish-born author living on Boston’s North Shore. Her nonfiction, fiction and poetry have been published in various outlets, including “The Boston Globe Magazine,” “The New York Times,” “Creative Nonfiction,” “Another Chicago Magazine,” “Pulse: Stories from the Heart of Medicine,” “KevinMD,” “The Journal of Expressive Writing” and many other publications. She’s also the author of 5 books. As a trained teacher and certified wellness-writing instructor (Duke University), she has designed and delivered workshops and retreats in various community, academic and healthcare settings, including Straw Dog Writers Guild.
www.ainegreaney.com.
