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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at Jones Library
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading of Compass Roads – Poems about the Pioneer Valley at the Jones Library in Amherst. \nPoets reading : \nPaul Mariani\nJean Blakeman\nTheresa A. Vincent\nBeth Filson\nPat Schneider\nEileen P Kennedy\nCandance R Curran\nJanet E. Aalfs\nSharon Tracey\nLibby Maxey \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-jones-library
LOCATION:Jones Library\, Amherst MA\, 43 Amity Street\, Amherst\, MA\, 01002\, United States
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads reading at Odyssey Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading of Compass Roads – Poems about the Pioneer Valley\, at Odyssey Bookshop. \nMore info coming soon! \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compassroadsreadingodyssey
LOCATION:The Odyssey Bookshop\, 9 College St.\, South Hadley\, MA\, 01075\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diving Deep: Poetic Craft\, Form and Emotion w/ Gail Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deep: Poetic Craft\, Form and Emotion\nA challenge that many writers face is how to choose artful details when writing about strong emotional content. Some of us may shy away from expressing loss or anger\, or we may produce work that’s overly sentimental. For inspiration\, we will read poems that elevate personal experience by paying close attention to craft. We’ll also engage in an exercise to discover fresh metaphors and experiment with form. Open to poets and prose writers\, this workshop will illustrate how to use poetic craft as a means of diving more deeply. \n  \nBIO: Gail Thomas\nGail Thomas has published four books of poetry\, Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back (2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley (2001) and Finding 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 Back was 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 The Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’s Narrative Poetry Prize and the Pat Schneider Poetry Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony and Ucross. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930’s 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/diving-deep
LOCATION:Lily Library\, Florence\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at Montague Bookmill
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading of Compass Roads\, Poems about the Pioneer Valley\, with several poets reading their poems. \nMore info coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-montague-bookmill
LOCATION:Montague Bookmill\, 440 Old Greenfield Rd.\, Montague\, Massachusetts\, 01351
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader -  Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, May 6\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \n \nFeatured Reader – Lesléa Newman is the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the short story collection\, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK; the novel-in-verse\, OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD; the poetry collection\, I CARRY MY MOTHER; and the children’s books\, HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES\, SPARKLE BOY\, A SWEET PASSOVER\, and KETZEL\, THE CAT WHO COMPOSED. Her literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor\, the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award\, and the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2008 – 2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, MA. Her newest poetry collection\, LOVELY was published in January 2018. \n  \n  \nBring 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! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-featured-reader-leslea-newman
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Kathy Ford
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Kathy Ford grew up in Rochester\, New York\, graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1980 with a major in design theory\, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in architecture. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1985 and has been practicing architecture in New York and Massachusetts for the past thirty years. \nHer life as a quilter began shortly after becoming a mother in 1991.\nKathy lives with her two dogs in the hilltowns of western Massachusetts.\nHer body of work can be seen at kathyford.net \n \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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-kathy-ford
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180421T080000
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SUMMARY:Paths to Publishing - A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable about the pros and cons of different paths to publication can help you figure out where (and where not) to place your writing. Five Straw Dog authors will briefly describe their experiences working with diverse kinds of presses – corporate\, indie\, hybrid\, self-publishing\, as well as working with an agent. Then everyone is invited to participate in the discussion to follow. A great opportunity for anyone wanting to know more about the array of publishing opportunities available today.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/paths-publishing-roundtable-discussion
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T130000
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SUMMARY:EASTHAMPTON BOOKFEST - Compass Roads Reading
DESCRIPTION:POETS READING: \nGail Cleare\nDeborah Dill\nTzivia Gover\nRay Homstead\nPhyllis Katz\nEileen Kennedy\nJan Maher\nEllen Meeropol\nRebecca Hart Olander\nChristine Ann Pratt\nDiane Rachele\nLaura Rodley\nCynthia Suopis\nHilde Weisert\nJane Yolen \nStraw Dog Writers Guild presents our first Poetry Anthology – Compass Roads\, Poems about the Pioneer Valley.\nw/ Editor Jane Yolen. \nhttp://www.strawdogwriters.org/poetry \nEASTHAMPTON BOOKFEST\nApril 14 @ 4 pm.\nWhite Square Books\,  \nEasthampton MA \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/easthampton-bookfest-compass-roads-reading
LOCATION:White Square Books\, 86 Cottage St\, Easthampton\, MA\, 01027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T170000
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads - Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:  \nStraw Dog Writers Guild presents our first Poetry Anthology – Compass Roads\, Poems about the Pioneer Valley.\nw/ Editor Jane Yolen. \nhttp://www.strawdogwriters.org/poetry \nApril 10 @ 7 pm.\nFlorence Civic Center\nFlorence\, MA \nPOETS READING\nAnna Bozena Bowen\nMichael Goldman\nDM Gordon\nNina Gross\nKathleen Kelley\nMarian Kent\nPatricia Lee Lewis\nRich Michelson\nV Jane Schneeloch\nMolly Scott\nStephanie B Shafran\nHeidi E. Y. Stemple\nJoshua Michael Stewart\nGail Thomas\nJane Yolen \nEditor Jane Yolen – 62 Poets\nPublished by Levellers Press
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-book-launch-2
LOCATION:Florence Civic Center\, Florence Civic Center\, Park St.\, Florence\, MA\, 01062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180408T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180408T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T102103
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill - Featured Reader - ERNIE BRILL
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, April 8\,  3:00–5:00 p.m.  ( ***Second Sunday)\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader – ERNIE BRILL \nBorn in Brooklyn\, Ernie Brill writes fiction and poetry. His short story “Crazy Hattie Enters The Ice Age” from his collection of hospital stories\, I Looked Over Jordan”(South End Press) was purchased and performed on PBS by the actress\, writer\, and activist Ruby Dee. He has published stories and poems in the US and Canada. \nHe received his BA\, and MA from San Francisco State College and was an active participant in the 1968 student strike\, the longest in American history that won the first Black Studies Dept. in the US and an entire\nSchool of Ethnic Studies. \nBrill taught high school in Northampton Ma for twenty years and pioneered curriculum in Middle East Literature\,African literature\, Latin American literature\, literature of the Vietnam War\,and a more inclusive American literature\,bringing in such writers as Richard Wright\, Toni Cade Bambara\, Charles Johnson\, Martin Espada\, Janice Mirikitani and others.l \nHe is currently writing a novel about the 1968 San Francisco State. \nHis favorite writers include Virginia Woolf\, Jean Toomer\, Sterling Brown\, Mahmoud Darwish\, and Kim Hyesoon. \n  \nBring 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! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-featured-reader-ernie-brill
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Readers Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
DESCRIPTION:John D. Bidwell is consulting editor of Monique and the Mango Rains\, the critically esteemed book authored by his wife Kris Holloway that chronicles their time in Peace Corps with the Malian midwife Monique Dembele. He is the Executive Director of the United Way of Hampshire County\, and a branding and marketing consultant\, frequent presenter\, and has lectured and taught at the University of Michigan\, University of Massachusetts\, Smith College\, and Marlboro College. John has his BA from McGill University. \n  \n  \n \nKris Holloway is author of the critically acclaimed Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali\, which has been called “a respectful\, unsentimental portrait (and) a poignant and powerful book.” (Kirkus\, Starred Review). She has delivered hundreds of presentations\, and the book remains a favorite “common read” and is used in 150+ college and university courses. Kris is President of CISabroad\, a leading education abroad organization responsible that has sent thousands of students to study and intern abroad worldwide. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. \n  \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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-readers-kris-holloway-john-bidwell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T110000
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SUMMARY:Songwriting 101 with Pamela Means
DESCRIPTION:Songwriting 101 with Pamela Means \nREGISTER BELOW \nDESCRIPTION: There is no such thing as writer’s block. Dubious? Come to the Pamela Means Songwriting Workshop and learn new tools\, tips and tricks of the craft to tease out more brilliance from your brain. You will never suffer from blank pages again. Acclaimed songwriter\, Pamela Means\, will help inspire you to push the envelope\, stretch and take risks as a writer. You will expand your lyrical menu through myriad exercises and broaden musical\, melodic and chord choices with a teaspoon taste of music theory for songwriters. You will be pleasantly surprised with what comes up! Bring your instrument\, notebook and a favorite writing utensil. \n  \n \nBIO: A multi-talented performer\, singer\, songwriter\, composer and producer\, Pamela Means’s multiple honors include being named Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s “# 1 Most Wanted New Artist\,” “Wisconsin Folk Artist of the Year\,” “Wisconsin Female Vocalist of the Year\,” and her politically provocative album\, Single Bullet Theory\, was voted 2004’s “Outmusic Outstanding New Recording.” Her latest CD\, Plainfield\, was released last fall. \n  \n  \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \nLoading…
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/songwriting-101-pamela-means
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180318T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180318T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T102103
CREATED:20180120T035533Z
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SUMMARY:How to Begin Writing 10-Minute Plays with Meryl Cohn
DESCRIPTION:How to Begin Writing 10-Minute Plays with Meryl Cohn \nREGISTRATION CLOSED – WORKSHOP IS FULL \nDESCRIPTION:  One of the most common questions about writing plays is how to get started. The germ of an idea for a play may present itself in theme\, in situation\, or in character. We will discuss various ways to enter the life of a play and do writing exercises to get started on a 10-minute play. \n  \nBIO:  Meryl Cohn’s play\, REASONS TO LIVE was named Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times. Awards include The 2015 Eventide Arts Jeremiah Kaplan Award\, The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award\, finalist for the MCC Playwriting Award\, and semifinalist (twice) for the O’Neill National Playwriting Award. Meryl’s work has been produced or developed at The Skylight Theatre\, The Open Fist Theatre\, N.Y. International Fringe Festival\, The Provincetown Theatre\, W.H.A.T.\, The Soho Playhouse\, Counter Productions\, The Road Theatre\, and Smith College\, among others. She earned her MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the author of the humor book DO WHAT I SAY: MS. BEHAVIOR’S GUIDE TO GAY AND LESBIAN ETIQUETTE\, published by Houghton Mifflin. Several of Meryl’s recent short stories have been Glimmer Train Finalists\, and she is just finishing (she hopes) her first novel. \n  \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/begin-writing-10-minute-plays-meryl-cohn
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T110000
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CREATED:20180120T034913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180310T012915Z
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SUMMARY:Collage and Writing with Becky Jones
DESCRIPTION:Collage and Writing with Becky Jones \nREGISTER BELOW  \nDESCRIPTION:  The workshop will provide images\, paper\, scissors\, glue sticks and tape\, though you are free to bring images of your own\, if you would like. You provide your openness to the process of discovery\, along with pen and paper. People will have the optional opportunity to share both their writings and collages. \n \n  \nBIO:  Becky Jones has been leading bereavement writing groups for 17 years. In this workshop\, we have the opportunity to use one of her favorite exercises that combines collage and writing. Originally intended to explore grief and deepen connections to departed loved ones\, it can be used equally well to get in touch with characters in your writing or to gain insight into an issue that is niggling away at you. \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Carol Duke \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \nLoading… \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/collage-writing-becky-jones
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
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CREATED:20171221T025757Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Tzivia Gover
DESCRIPTION:Tzivia 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\n\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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-tzivia-gover
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180214T045507Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill with Donna Jenson
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, March  4\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson \n\nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson founded Time To Tell™ in 2009 with a mission to spark stories from lives\naffected by incest and sexual abuse to be told and heard. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\,\na non-profit arts service organization. She wrote and performs her one-woman play\, What She\nKnows: One Woman’s Way Through Incest to Joy\, which is based on her own experience of\nsurviving incest and what she did to make her life worth living. She performs her play at\nconferences\, for organizations focused on boys who have sexually abused others\, girls in prison\,\ncollege students\, domestic violence and sexual assault advocates\, and communities in need of\nhealing. She leads Time To Tell What We Know writing and mindfulness workshops for survivors.\nShe is the Board President of the non-profit MERGE: Transforming masculinity to advance gender\nequality. Donna is a leader\, counselor and organizer who built grassroots women’s centers in New\nYork City during the 1970’s and 1980’s and is still active in the leadership development consulting\nand training practice she established in 1986. Her book\, Healing My Life from Incest to Joy\, is a\nnarrative of the choices she made and experiences she had that helped her heal from her childhood\ntrauma. Published by Levellers Press\, Amherst\, MA.  www.timetotell.org \nBring 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! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-3
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:20180304T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T100000
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SUMMARY:Finding the Voice of Your Story with Dori Ostermiller
DESCRIPTION:Finding the Voice of Your Story with Dori Ostermiller \nREGISTER BELOW \nDESCRIPTION: There’s lots of talk these days about voice in narrative\, but what is it\, exactly? If the voice of our story is the doorway through which readers enter\, how do we let them in? How can we consciously create a voice that is compelling\, readable and true? In this one-day workshop\, we will explore what factors go into creating voice\, in fiction and memoir\, study some examples of amazing voices in literature\, do some writing\, and learn techniques for crafting a memorable narrative voice—one that not only engages the reader but also invites surprise and discovery. There is nothing more exciting\, for both reader and writer\, than following a live\, candid and curious mind on the page. \n  \nBIO: Dori Ostermiller holds a BFA in writing from the University of Redlands and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals. Dori has worked for over two decades as a professional editor\, and has taught literature and writing at the University of Massachusetts\, Westfield State College\, Springfield College and Bay Path College.  She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship\, a Tobias Wolf Fiction award and a Walker Gibson award\, and is the founder of Writers in Progress\, a literary arts center in Western Massachusetts. \n  \n  \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/finding-voice-story-dori-ostermiller
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180303T123000
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SUMMARY:What Can Social Media Do For You As a Writer?
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to presenter Marya Zilberberg discuss how to break down the barriers and put Twitter\, blogs and other online formats to work. \nSocial media seem to be a necessity for marketing anything in the 21st century. But are they? What are the best approaches for a writer? We will discuss some of the successful strategies and potential pitfalls of this brave new communication ecosystem. \nMarya Zilberberg is a physician-health services researcher living in Western Massachusetts. In addition to over 120 academic articles\, she has authored the book Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature\, which\, thanks to her blogging and tweeting\, is used by many residency programs as a textbook of evaluative medicine. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Six Hens\, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review\, Cleaver\, Vox Poetica\, The Blue Hour and Boston Poetry Magazine\, among others. If you want to follow Marya on Twitter\, her handle is @murzee. \nAttendees are welcome to bring electronic devices and follow along in Marya’s presentation if they wish to try out the platforms in real time.   
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/can-social-media-writer
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180210T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180210T123000
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CREATED:20171218T044300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T042727Z
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SUMMARY:"What’s so important about setting?" Writers Workshop
DESCRIPTION:What’s so important about setting? \nAre you curious about world building? Do your characters inhabit living rooms in the future\, or trek miles at the turn of the century? Setting connects readers to a narrative and is part of the allure that transports them from one place to another\, but setting is so much more than the streets our characters walk down\, the oceans they swim.  In this Reading like a Writer we’ll use short stories and novel excerpts to examine setting and explore how writers use it to establish the worlds in which their protagonists live\, foreshadow plot\, create mood and tone\, and reveal psychological traits. We’ll work on a passage of our own to see how different approaches to setting can add various layers to our work. This session is good for beginning and established writers who want to develop revision strategies to make their fictional worlds breathe. \n  \n \nBio \nJennifer Jacobson is the Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. She is also the Associate Director of the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst. She founded the non-profit organization When Children Save the Day to unite language arts and social action. Her work has been honored with a Creative Teaching Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the National Storytelling Network’s Brimstone Award for transformative community projects\, along with support from the Solidago Foundation and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. Her short story “Heat” received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train\, and “Trouble and Bones” was a Tennessee Williams Festival’s Fiction contest finalist. Jennifer teaches creative writing at Smith College’s Young Women’s Writing Workshop\, and with Voices From Inside\, created the Family Storybook Project curriculum for incarcerated women and their children. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/whats-important-setting-writers-workshop
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Ruth Lehrer
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out with Featured Reader Ruth Lehrer \nFebruary 6\, 2018 \n7-9pm \nRuth Lehrer is a writer and sign language interpreter living in western Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in journals such as Lilith\, Jubilat\, and Trivia: Voices of Feminism. Her poetry chapbook\, TIGER LAUGHS WHEN YOU PUSH\, is available from Headmistress Press. Her debut young adult novel\, BEING FISHKILL (Candlewick Press\, 2017) is described by Entertainment Weekly as\, “…the year’s most heartwarming\, heartbreaking teen novel.” Ruth can be found at ruthlehrer.com  \n \n\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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-ruth-lehrer
LOCATION:The Basement
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