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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Michael A. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance \nto read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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 \nMichael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno_ponsor
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - featured reader Frances W. Henry
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nFrances W. Henry \n\n\n\nFrances W. Henry was born and raised in Sag Harbor\, New York. She graduated from the New School for Social Research and earned an MBA from Harvard University. An executive and founder of nonprofits\, she now devotes herself to the visual and literary arts. She created East Branch Press in 2006\, which has issued three volumes of her essays. Henry’s first book of memoir was published by GP Putnam’s Sons in 1983. She lives in the Hilltowns of western Massachusetts with her husband Walter Korzec.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-frances-w-henry
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T120000
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SUMMARY:Giving & Receiving Manuscript Feedback - Workshop with Celia Jeffries
DESCRIPTION:Giving and receiving manuscript feedback \nNo one writes in a void. Although we may sometimes deny it\, most of us write to be read. But there are times when having your work read by others can be damaging or even silencing\, particularly when you are in the formative stages of a project. Many workshops have parameters for giving feedback\, ranging from “do no harm’ to ‘only speak the positive.” These are good approaches\, but what if you really want/need to hear what’s not working\, and perhaps some ideas on how to improve things? \nJoin us on Dec 1\, for an interactive discussion and overview of some ways to give and receive respectful\, useful feedback. \nLed by  Straw Dogs Steering Committee member\, Celia Jeffries\, MA\, MFA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/giving-receiving-manuscript-feedback-workshop-with-celia-jeffries
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T170000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson
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 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvousbethf
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:20181111T130000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-register-today
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at The Great Falls Word Festival
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-the-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\,\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Cai Emmons
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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! \nCai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son and The Stylist and\, most recently\, Weather Woman\, forthcoming in October 2018\, about a meteorologist who discovers she has the power to change the weather. Novelist Caroline Leavitt says of Weather Woman\, “I love this novel so much I want to marry it.” Formerly a playwright and screenwriter\, Cai’s short work has appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly\, Narrative\, and Arts and Culture\, among others. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-cai-emmons
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T150000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - ROUNDTABLE:  ALLY  V  APPROPRIATION
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-ally-v-appropriation
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T170000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/ Featured Readers: Stewart & Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo! Turners Falls\, MA.  \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event.  \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Sign up for open mic by 3:15 pm.  \nLast Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \n  \nFeatured Readers – Pamela Stewart & Joshua Michael Stewart \nJoshua Michael Stewart has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Rattle\, Salamander\, Mudfish\, Brilliant Corners\, Talking River Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems is Break Every String\,  (Hedgerow Books\, 2016.)   www.joshuamichaelstewart.com \n  \nPamela Stewart (known as Jody) is a true “boomer” and New England born and bred.  She took up writing in grade school because she couldn’t draw.   She received a BA from Goddard’s ADP Program and an MFA (sort of) from University of Iowa.  She’s taught creative writing at several universities including ASU\, University of Arizona\, UC Irvine\, and University of Houston.  In 1982 she received a Guggenheim and traveled to Cornwall in the UK where she returned to live for 7 years. Jody came back to western Massachusetts in 1990 and in 1994 she\, and her then husband\, moved to a farm at the edge of Hawley. Over the years she’s published in a number of magazines\, received 3 Pushcart publications\, and is the author of 6 full-length books of poems: The St. Vlas Elegies (L’Epervier press\, 1977)\, Cascades (L’Epervier Press\, 1979)\, Nightblind (Ion Books\, 1985)\, Infrequent Mysteries (Alice James Books\, 1991)\, The Red Window  (Univ. of Georgia Press\, 1997)\, and Ghost Farm (Pleasure Boat Studio\, 2010.) A chapbook\, Just Visiting\, was published by Grey Suit Editions\, London\, 2014. Jody continues to live on the farm with 3 dogs\, a number of elderly sheep\, a rescued race horse\, a pudgy donkey\,  a couple of goats\, and some old pigs and birds. At some point she intends to tackle a “new and selected” if the dogs let her. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-stewart-stewart
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T190000
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SUMMARY:Dead Writers Dance - Literary Halloween
DESCRIPTION:Do you write?\nDo you read?\nDo you wish the NYTimes Book Review would ask\nYOU which dead authors you’d like to have dinner with?Forget dinner\, come DANCE with them!\nDress up as your favorite author (or character) and Join Straw Dog Writers for our inaugural DEAD WRITERS DANCE Benefit. \nDJ\nCash bar\nFree snacks\nSurprise accolades\nWord games\nRaffles (of writerly essentials)\nTickets:  $20 in advance\, $25 at the door\n\nWE ARE LOOKING FOR UNDERWRITERS & SPONSORS!\nIf you would like to be an underwriter for this Straw Dog Writers Benefit\, please contact admin@strawdogwriters.org
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/deadwritersdance
LOCATION:121 Club\, Eastworks\, Easthampton\, MA\, Easthampton\, MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T030000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-2
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:20181013T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T120000
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SUMMARY:The Poetic Dream Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Poetic Dream  Workshop with Tzivia Gover \nDreams contain all the elements great poetry including metaphor\, symbolism\, vivid imagery\, humor\, and personification. Thus\, it is no surprise that classical and contemporary poets from Coleridge to Hughes to Clifton and more have used dreams and visions to craft their works. Dreams can help new writers and experienced scribes alike by providing inspiration\, prompts\, raw material\, and fresh perspective. In this hands-on workshop we will look to our dreams with pen in hand to find ready texts that can be crafted into poems or other creative literary expressions. Participants will write poems or other creative texts inspired by their dream and learn how dreams can benefit the creative writing process. \nThis workshop is open to everyone\, whether they consider themselves a poet or not\, and whether or not they remember their dreams. The aim of this workshop is to increase personal self-awareness and emotional growth\, and to increase creative and soulful awareness and abilities through exploring dreams and poetry. \nTzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays\, and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/the-poetic-dream-workshop
LOCATION:South Hadley Public Library\, 2 Canal St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T210000
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at Graham Hall\, Smith College
DESCRIPTION:POETS READING\nJanet E Aalfs\nAlice Barrett\nJean Blakeman\nAnna Bozena Bowen\nFloyd Cheung\nCandace R Curran\nBeth Filson\nMichael Goldman\nTzivia Gover\nSharon A Harmon\nJane McPhetres Johnson\nMary Ellen Kelly\nPatricia Lee Lewis\nRichard Michelson\nBurleigh Mutén\nJovonna Van Pelt\nChristine Anne Pratt\nStephanie B Shafran\nCynthia Suopis\nJane Yolen
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-graham-hall-smith-college
LOCATION:Graham Hall\, Smith College\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071833
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jendi Reiter
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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 \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, 2016)\, the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press\, forthcoming 2018)\, and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree\, 2015). Awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Wag’s Revue Poetry Prize\, the Bayou Magazine Editor’s Prize in Fiction\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. Reiter is the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers. For literary news\, readings\, and reviews\, visit JendiReiter.com and follow @JendiReiter on Twitter.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno-jendi
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071833
CREATED:20180908T183523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180908T183951Z
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SUMMARY:NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole M. Young – Featured Poet\n\nNicole M. Young is a performance poet\, playwright\, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit\, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts\, New York\, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album\, In/Put:  Live from the Valley\, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website  \n \nCandace Curran – Open Mic Host\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071833
CREATED:20180803T043932Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writers Guild - Annual Meeting 2018
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild annual meeting \nAll members welcome –Come hear about plans and opportunities \nSept 29\, 10 am\, 84 Musante Drive\, Northampton. \nCoffee/tea/nibbles \nRSVP to info@strawdogwriters.org
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writers-guild-annual-meeting-2018
LOCATION:84 Musante Drive\, Northampton\, MA 01060\, 84 Musante Drive\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writers Guild Authors Showcase!
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, at South Hadley Public Library at 6 p.m.  \nAUTHORS READING \nElizabeth George \nAmy Laprade \nSusan LaRosa \nRuth Lehrer \nMelanie S. Lewis \nEd Orzechowski \nMichael Ponsor \nJessica B. Sokol \nJoshua Michael Stewart \nMelissa Volker \nTom Weiner \nEllen Wittlinger
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writers-guild-authors-showcase
LOCATION:South Hadley Public Library\, 2 Canal St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T030000
DTSTAMP:20260404T071833
CREATED:20180829T211709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T212113Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:  \nRegister Here
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ ELMERS - Featured Reader Phyllis Katz
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:45! \n \nPHYLLIS KATZ \nMy two books of poetry\, All Roads Go Where They Will\, 2010 and Migrations\, 2013 were both published by Antrim House Press. My third book\, Finding Ithaca\, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2018. Copies of all thee books are available from the Norwich Bookstore (VT) and at Broadside Bookshop (MA). \nwww.phyllisbeckkatz.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader-phyllis-katz
LOCATION:Elmers\, 396 Main St\,\, Ashfield\, MA\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen 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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com  \n \n  \nEmily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six mystery and psychological suspense novels\, and one young adult psychological suspense novel\, The Leaf Reader. Titles of her adult novels include: The Broken Teaglass\, a New York Times Notable Crime Book in 2009\, The Evening Spider\, What Strange Creatures\, In Search of Rose Notes \, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Mysteries of 2011\, Miss Me When I’m Gone\, and her latest book\, The Last Thing I Told You\, which released in July 2018 and was one of PureWow’s Best Beach Reads of the summer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Shelburne Falls\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-emily-arsenault
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180807T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeatured Reader: Mary Clare Powell \nMary Clare Powell is a lifelong teacher\, retired professor at Lesley University\, and poet.  Her newest poetry book is Everyday Ecstasy\, a collection about aging (which we are all doing).  Growing older and its losses are here\, but so is whimsy\, joy\, and gratitude–pondering a brother’s death\, swimming in the river\, conversing with a GPS\, hanging up laundry.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180805T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180805T130000
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SUMMARY:** Location change for this month! Writers Read @ St. John's Corner House - Featured Reader Ann C. Averill
DESCRIPTION:Location change for this month! \nWriters Read at St. John’s Corner House\, \n469 Main St.\, Ashfield. \nFeatured Reader – Ann C. Averill \nAnn Averill’s work has appeared in several Christian publications. One of her short stories was published in a Writer’s Digest Short Short Story collection. A flash memoir recently went online in Write Angles Journal. A teacher for over 15 years\, she is also the author of the Ebook\, Broken\, 180 Days in the Wilderness of an Urban Middle School\,* available on Amazon. Besides writing\, Ann enjoys tending silly chickens\, tap dancing\, and taking long walks in the cool\, green woods. You can find her blog @ annaverill.weebly.com. \n* My Ebook is adult fiction\, based on a true story. \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T110000
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at the Northampton Senior Center
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-the-northampton-senior-center
LOCATION:Northampton Senior Center\, 67 Conz St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nJuly 3\, 2018\n7-9pm \nThe Basement\n21 Center Street\nNorthampton\, MA \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan 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 Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \n1st Sunday of the month. – 3:00–5:00 pm. \nThen the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.)  Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill. \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan 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 Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180624T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180624T110000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Meet-up 
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Critique Meet-up \nModerated by poet and translator Michael Goldman\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 \nSunday June 24\, 1-3pm\nSunday July 15\, 1-3pm\nSunday August 12\, 1-3pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here – TO REGISTER\nPoetry Critique Meet-up is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your poems\, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPoetry Critique Meet-up will happen monthly at Northampton Center for the Arts. After registering\, participants will be informed how many copies of their poems to bring. $5 registration fee per session. Space limited to ten. Register early. \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\nPoetry Critique Meet-up is a collaboration between Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Northampton Center for the Arts. This program is funded by gifts in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton\, who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. During and after college\, Eli spent three summers working for the Young Writers Workshop\, a residential program for high school students run out of the University of Virginia. At the time of his death\, Eli was living in Brooklyn\, continuing to write\, and working as a barista while he contemplated his future. He was considering returning to school for his master’s of fine arts. We are pleased to honor his legacy by creating affordable opportunities for members of the community to engage in a diverse series of writing experiences with dedicated and talented instructors.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7065
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 Joyce Hayden
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out – June 5 2018 \n \n  \nFeatured Writer: Joyce Hayden \nJoyce Hayden left her teaching position in the English Department at Westfield State University three years ago to pursue travel\, writing\, and painting. Since then she’s been across the US a couple times\, as well as France and Italy. She has published a chapbook of poems\,  \nLost Handprint with Dandelion Review\, held her first one-woman art exhibit at Sean-Christopher Gallery in Columbus\, OH\, and is now seeking a publisher for her completed memoir\, The Out of Body Girl. She writes a weekly Must Reads column at ROAR- Literature\, and Revolution for Feminist People. \n \nSee more of her writing and art on her website: Joycehayden.com \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If 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! \nFurther information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-joyce-hayden
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180604T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180604T170000
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SUMMARY:Voices for Resistance - A Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:VOICES FOR RESISTANCE – A CELEBRATION! \nwith special guests Martín Espada\, The Nields\, and Nicole M. Young! \nShort readings by Maria Jose Gimenez\, Lauren Marie Schmidt\, Eileen Kennedy\, Ellen LaFleche\, Dina Friedman\, Christopher J. Sparks & Theresa Vincent \nOPEN MIC   – slots available on June 4. If you’d like to read (max. 4 minutes) please arrive BY 6:45 pm and put your name in the hat. \nThe slots will be chosen\, also randomly\, the evening of the event on June 4. You are invited to read something you wrote or a published piece you admire. \nMonday\, June 4\, 2018\, at 7 pm\nForbes Library Coolidge Museum\nA Straw Dog Writers Guild Social Justice Writing Event
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/voices-resistance-celebration
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180603T130000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader Melissa Volker
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by: Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Melissa Volker \nMelissa Volker’s debut novel\, Delilah of Sunhats Swans\, received a Five Star Review from Reader’s Favorites and was praised by Alice Fulton\, Guggenheim Fellow Poet\, who said\, “Delilah…is a charmer\, a being blessed with a charisma as mysterious as it is luminous. You won’t soon forget her.” It was followed by a collection of short stories and a novella\, a life undone. The daughter of a playwright/novelist and a poet\, Melissa is a member of the Straw Dog Writer’s Guild and recently won the Words and Brushes third collaborative competition with her short story\, “Truths\,” published on www.wordsandbrushes.com. She will read from her debut literary novel and her newest shorts collection\, Where We Go\, copies of which will be available for sale. \nHere’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 read for five minutes each. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get five minutes.) \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-featured-reader-melissa-volker
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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