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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-11
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-10
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in December
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Carolyn A. Cushing at Forbes Library. \nNo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio: Carolyn A. Cushing is a lyric poet inspired by nature and currently focused on the places where life and death meet. Her poems have been published in local\, regional\, and national poetry journals. She seeks out ways to collaborate with fellow writers and artists as well as share poetry in dynamic formats\, resulting in projects such as the Poetry Oracle (2020) and Chapbook in the Street (2022). Carolyn is a recipient of grants from the Easthampton Cultural Council and Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and was a finalist for the Philbrick Poetry Award of the Providence Athenaeum (2012) and the Tarantula Poetry Contest of Pilgrimage Journal (2018). She is the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate of Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-december-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T172241Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-9
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231130
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
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SUMMARY:Support Straw Dog Writers Guild on Giving Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Straw Dog Writers Guild on #GivingTuesday November 28\, 2023. \nGive a Straw Dog Writers Guild membership as a holiday gift. At only $50\, it would make a great gift to a writer you care about\, or yourself!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/support-straw-dog-writers-guild-on-giving-tuesday
LOCATION:MA
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231122T210000
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CREATED:20231013T172038Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-8
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T170000
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our Annual Meeting on Sunday\, November 19 at 4pm. Meet the Board of Directors and Officers. Learn about current and future projects and how you can be involved. Register for our Annual Meeting HERE.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/annual-meeting
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20230911T165720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T163434Z
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SUMMARY:Every 4th Reader is Listening: Getting Your Book into Their Ears
DESCRIPTION:Narrator Scott Ellis shares\, “As an audiobook narrator and retired teacher\, I am always looking for ways to engage more people with audiobooks. I am looking forward to being with your group to walk through the entire process of audiobook production: from searching for the right narrator on the right platform\, understanding the lingo used in the industry especially as it relates to pricing and royalties\, the step by step process of how to vet narrators\, what your responsibilities are as the author and answering all your many questions except\, “Why is the sky blue?” and “What is the meaning of life?”” \nJoin Straw Dog Writers Guild for this craft workshop on Saturday\, November 18\, 10:30-12noon at the Athol Public Library and learn about how to turn your written book into an audiobook. This will be a hybrid event. Please register through the Athol Public Library.   \nBio: Scott Ellis\, an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. has narrated over 90 audiobooks and coached several authors through the production or narration of their first audiobook. Being a retired teacher\, he loves to teach and have an online classroom where he instructs people who would like to become narrators and voice actors in everything they need to know to be successful. Scott Ellis Reads\, an audiobook production company\, started in 2019 and has a team of 15 people that work in narrating\, editing\, marketing and managing the business.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/every-4th-reader-is-listening-getting-your-book-into-their-ears
LOCATION:Athol Public Library\, 568 Main St\, Athol\, MA\, 01331\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T194500
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T174907Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in November
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, November 16\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Justine Dymond. \nBio: Justine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won the 2018 Eludia Award from Hidden Rivers Arts. Other awards and honors include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist grant\, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer “Brave of Worms\,” a 2007 O. Henry Prize\, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006\, two Pushcart Prize nominations and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Briar Cliff Review\, Meat for Tea\, Lowestoft Chronicle\, and Cargo Literary. Demeter Press issued her co-edited collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives in 2013. She has been honored with grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. On faculty in the department of Literature\, Writing\, & Journalism at Springfield College since 2008\, she is currently working on a novel tentatively titled “Upper Crust.” \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-november-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20231013T171828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T171828Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-7
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T000000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20231113T194341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T175814Z
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SUMMARY:Calling Straw Dog Authors for the 10th Annual Author Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Call to SDWG members who published a book in 2023…\nSubmit your name for the drawing of readers at the 10th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books.\nMark your calendars: Saturday\, January 20\, 2024\, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.\, on Zoom \nStraw Dog Writers Guild invites Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book published in 2023 to read as part of the 2024 annual Author Showcase. If interested in being part of the Showcase\, please indicate your interest by emailing strawdogsubmission@gmail.com. \nThe deadline to express interest is midnight December 18th. We will let authors know by December 21st. Authors will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. \nTen readers will have five minutes each to read from their work. While you won’t have the chance to sell you books in person\, we put links to your books in the chat. \nOnce chosen\, you will need to provide a brief bio and photograph for publicity and Showcase program. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/calling-straw-dog-authors-for-the-10th-annual-author-showcase
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20231013T171555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T171555Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-6
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20230925T174440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T173832Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in November
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Richard Michelson at Forbes Library. \nNo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio:RICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books\, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press)\, Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois)\, Tap Dancing for the Relatives (U of Central Florida)\, and two fine-press collaborations\, Masks\, and Semblant with the artist Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press. Michelson’s children’s books have been named among the 10 Best of the Year by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and The New Yorker\, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com  Michelson has received a National Jewish Book Award\, two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. His work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the  Library of Congress National Book Festival.  Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20231013T171004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T171004Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-5
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20231013T170739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T171220Z
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-4
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183248
CREATED:20230922T161650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T161650Z
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SUMMARY:A Spooky Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. October’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that illustrate what you consider spooky or scary\, from critters to creatures to the state of our world. (And you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room at 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA on Wednesday\, October 25\, 6:30-8:00pm. Wine and chocolate will be served. \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414. \nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-spooky-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T194500
DTSTAMP:20260405T183249
CREATED:20230927T165113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T172101Z
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in October
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, October 19\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Margaret Lloyd\, poet and visual artist. Born in Liverpool\, England\, of Welsh parents\, Margaret grew up in a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She attended the University of Rochester as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds\, England. In addition to publishing a book on William Carolos Williams\, she has published four collections of poems. She has held several art exhibitions\, as well as published paintings and painting/poem pairs in journals\, nationally and internationally. Lloyd lives in Florence\, Massachusetts\, and is Professor Emeritus of English at Springfield College.\n \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-october-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T190000
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-3
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T123000
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SUMMARY:Let's Make a Scene
DESCRIPTION:Scenes are the building blocks of screenplays. Like Legos\, each one is strong and intact on its own — but its purpose is to be part of a larger structure. This is a seminar for anyone interested in the many ways screenwriting differs from prose. To get the most from our time together\, read a few scripts online\, jot some notes\, and be ready to write a scene of your own. Please bring pen and paper: We’re going old school for a couple hours. \nJoin Straw Dog Writers Guild for Let’s Make a Scene craft workshop with Pamela Marin on Saturday\, October 14\, 10:30am – 12:30pm at Lilly Library. Free. No registration necessary. \nBio: Pamela Marin was a staff writer for the Orange County Register\, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Tribeca Trib. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Playboy\, Redbook\, Parents and Ladies’ Home Journal. One essay caught the eye of a producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Pamela wrote and recorded a piece that was featured on the show in 2001. Her memoir\, Motherland\, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s best books of 2005. Her adaptation of the book Tommy’s Honour opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Feature Film.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/lets-make-a-scene
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T210000
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup-2
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183249
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes Online Weekly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any 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. \nTo register and receive the zoom link\, contact Steven D. Brewer at sdbrewer@stevendbrewer.com \nThis weekly meeting is on a trial basis and will run from Wednesdays\, September 27 – December 20.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-online-weekly-meetup
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joan Livingston at Forbes Library. \nNo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio: Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers\, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series\, which will have the seventh\, Missing the Deadline\, released by darkstroke books later this year. Her most recent release is Northern Comfort\, set like most of her books\, including The Sacred Dog and Northern Comfort\, in the fictional hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. She is currently writing a sequel to The Sacred Dog called the Unforgiving Town. She relies on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts\, where she lives and once covered as a long-time journalist\, to create realistic characters and settings.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T171500
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SUMMARY:Writers-in-Residence Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, October 1\, 4:00-5:15pm  on Zoom\, for a reading by the nine emerging writers who received residencies in our collaborative program with Edith Wharton’s The Mount last March. They will be joined by Straw Dog Writers Guild’s Emerging Writer Fellow who spent a week at The Mount with the last cohort of writers in residence. Each reader will have a few minutes to share some of their work in progress with us\, and then they will have a conversation about the impact of the residencies and their time at The Mount. \nThe 2023 Writers-in-Residence include Cat Wei\, Emily Atkinson\, Emily Kiernan\, Katherine Easer\, Keeonna Harris\, Lindsay Rockwell\, Mario Giannone\, Martha Pham\, Parvati Ramchandani\, and Emerging Writer Fellow Regine Jackson. \nPlease invite your friends. Register HERE. \n  \nBios: \nCAT WEI is a poet working in healthcare in Brooklyn\, New York; she is an active advocate for poetry in her community as the organizer of East Village Poetry Salon\, a reading series that centers on female\, queer\, and trans poets of color. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award\, an Idyllwild Writers Week Fellow\, and Tin House Workshop alumni. Wei’s writing was Best of the Net nominated and appears in Gulf Coast\, Vagabond City\, Sundog Lit\, and Lantern Review. \n  \nEMILY ATKINSON is a writer and public defender born and raised in Illinois; she earned her MFA in Playwriting from Smith College and a J.D. and M.A. in English Literature from Boston University. She is currently working on a novel workshopped at the Colgate Writers’ Workshop\, two Tin House Summer Workshops\, and a Tin House Winter Workshop. Atkinson’s published work appears in Electric Literature\, PopMatters\, and HuffPost. She lives in western Massachusetts with her dog\, Marlowe. \n  \nEMILY KIERNAN is the author of the novel\, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press). Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction\, Pank\, The Collagist\, Redivider\, Quarterly West\, X-R-A-Y\, and numerous other journals. She has received support from MacDowell\, The Ucross Foundation\, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Tin House Summer Workshop\, and The Community of Writers. She holds an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and serves as a prose editor at Noemi Press. \n  \nKATHERINE EASER was born in Kansas City\, Kansas\, the daughter of a Chinese mother from Taiwan and an American father of European ancestry. After earning a BA from Smith College\, she studied creative writing in The Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. In 2011\, her young adult novel\, Vicious Little Darlings\, was published by Bloomsbury. Her short story\, “Parade of Cats\,” a third-place winner in Glimmer Train’s 2017 Fiction Open\, appeared in the magazine’s Winter 2018 issue. She lives and writes in Los Angeles. \n  \nKEEONNA HARRIS is a writer\, storyteller\, mother of five\, and prison abolitionist. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University. Her dissertation\, “Everybody Survived but Nobody Survived: Black Feminism\, Motherhood\, and Mass Incarceration\,” used ethnography and autoethnography to document the experiences of Black mothers navigating the process of visitation and incarceration. Her memoir\, Mainline Mama\, forthcoming in 2024 from Amistad Press\, draws from her experiences as a Black woman\, a teen mother\, and twenty years of raising children with an incarcerated partner\, building community in the borderlands of the prison. An excerpt from her memoir is available on Salon.com. \nLINDSAY ROCKWELL is poet-in-residence for the Episcopal Church of Connecticut and hosts their Poetry and Social Justice Dialogue series. She’s published\, or forthcoming in\, BlazeVOX\, Connecticut River Review\, Amethyst Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, and Willawaw\, among others. Her first collection of poems\, GHOST FIRES\, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag press in spring/summer 2023. She won first prize in the October Project Poetry Contest and 81st Moon Prize from Writing in a Woman’s Voice. Lindsay holds a Master of Dance and Choreography from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts and is an oncologist. \n  \nMARIO GIANNONE received a Bachelor’s in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Giannone served as an assistant fiction editor for Epoch Magazine and taught creative writing and composition for Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English and the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. He teaches writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Giannone’s short fiction appears in Third Coast\, Indiana Review\, and Blue Mesa Review\, and his story “Heaven is a Disk\,” published in Indiana Review\, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nMARTHA PHAM is a writer from Massachusetts. A 2022 Tin House Scholar\, she holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an incoming writer-in-residence at the The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Residency Program and soon after the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts where she will tend to a novel-in-progress. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature\, Nurture\, Serious Eats and elsewhere. Find her at marthapham.com \n  \nPARVATI RAMCHANDANI is a recently retired physician looking forward to bringing long-stalled writing projects to fruition. She has published short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces in literary magazines\, including Peregrine\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, and Bucks County Writer. Ramchandani won an award from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts for fiction writing. Two of her creative nonfiction pieces relating to her work as a physician are slated for publication in an anthology of writings by Women Physicians titled This Side of Doctoring (Eliza Chin\, MD\, and Anju Goel\, Eds.)\, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. \n  \nREGINE JACKSON is a black writer born and raised in Springfield\, MA. Being an avid reader since she was a child\, Jackson always wished to bring all the elements of her imagination to life\, specifically stories where the main characters looked like her and the majority of the people around her. While not having any of her works professionally published (so far)\, Jackson is currently working on two YA horror novels\, as well as taking the tentative steps to create a dark fantasy/horror trilogy series. While Jackson mainly writes within the science-fiction\, horror\, and fantasy genres\, she has also taken on writing prose and poetry revolving around her life living in an inner city. Thankful for the opportunities being the 2022 Straw Dog Writers’ Guild recipient has presented to her\, she hopes to not only hone her own craft but to bring more creative work to her city and encourage more BIPOC women to write their truths.” Find her at reginejackson.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-in-residence-reading
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T213000
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writes New Online Program
DESCRIPTION:The Straw Dog Program Committee announces a new initiative: Straw Dog Writes. Starting Sept 27\, 2023\, each Wednesday at 7pm\, whenever there is not another scheduled Straw Dog event\, any Straw Dog 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 \nIn the members survey conducted last fall\, a common theme was members wanting to meet other members and write together. And to have more events that didn’t require driving after dark. We hope this new initiative will respond to those interests and we hope to see many of you there.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writes-new-online-program
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T194500
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in September
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, September 21\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Tommy Twilite (aka Thomas Clark)\, a poet\, songwriter and performer who lives in Florence MA. He is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society\, and the Executive Editor of Silkworm. Tommy is the current Beat Poet Laureate of Massachusetts and the host of the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ-FM Valley Free Radio. His first full length collection\, Fifty Words for Rain was published in 2021. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-september-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T200000
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SUMMARY:How to Become an Engaging & Dynamic Reader of Your Written Work and Wow Your Audience
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn (and practice) reading the written word aloud (whether your own or that of others)\, with power\, flair\, and dynamism! \nJoin Straw Dog Writers Guild on Wednesday\, September 13\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm for How to Become an Engaging & Dynamic Reader of Your Written Work and Wow Your Audience (The Four P’s)\, a craft workshop with Joy Baglio of Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. \nThe skill of engaging an audience (or listener) and keeping them on the edge of their seat is a completely different one from that of the writing itself\, yet it’s also one that most of us will use at some point in our lives\, and as such a sense of confidence\, comfort\, and attention to what I’ve begun calling The Four P’s can go a long way. The Four P’s are the essential tools we use when reading anything aloud\, tools that we can look at\, understand\, and practice\, thus gaining comfort and confidence as readers of written work. They are 1) Projection (or volume\, voice modulation)\, 2) Pathos (or the feeling we bring to what we read\, our sense of expression)\, 3) Pacing (the power of speeding up and slowing down)\, and 4) Posture (everything from how you’re standing\, body language\, gestures\, and eye contact). Through lecture and discussion\, we’ll break down each of these elements; then\, we’ll use short example texts (as well as our own) to practice each element while reading aloud – in pairs\, small groups\, and eventually (for those who’d like to) in front of the larger group. Whether you’re about to embark on a book tour\, are a regular at open mics\, or read Harry Potter aloud to your kids every night\, this workshop aims to give useful\, practical tips that will increase your confidence and power as a reader of your own (or any) written work. This workshop is for writers of all levels / genres and may also be of interest to teachers\, parents\, care-givers\, or anyone who reads aloud to others regularly! Optional: If there is a particular text or a piece of your original writing you’d like to practice reading aloud\, have the first paragraph of that on hand during the workshop. \nTo register for this free workshop on Zoom\, click HERE. \nJoy Baglio is a Northampton MA-based fiction writer and the founder / director of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, where she frequently teaches and hosts readings and events. Her short stories have appeared widely\, in journals such as? The Missouri Review\, ?American Short Fiction\, Conjunctions\, ?Tin House\, The Iowa Review\, Gulf Coast\, TriQuarterly\, Fairy Tale Review\, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships\, scholarships\, residencies\, and/or grants from Yaddo\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, Ragdale\, The Speculative Literature Foundation\, Vermont Studio Center\, Bread Loaf Writers’ and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, and The Kerouac Project. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is a contributing editor at the literary magazine West Branch. She is at work on two novels and a short story collection and is represented by Peter Steinberg at United Talent Agency (UTA). Joy loves reading any text aloud and is currently in the middle of a family read-through of all the Harry Potter books\, wherein she voices all the characters. Find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com and www.PioneerValleyWriters.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/how-to-become-an-engaging-dynamic-reader-of-your-written-work-and-wow-your-audience
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in September
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 5 \, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Howie Faerstein at Forbes Library. \nNo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement \nBio: Howie Faerstein is the author of 5 books Play a Song on the Drums He Said (Owl’s Head Press)\, Out of Order (Main Street Rag) & two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems\, published by Press 53. STAY\, a recent collection (Human Error Publishing) was published in February 2023. His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review\, Nimrod\, Off the Coast\, Rattle\, upstreet\, Banyan Review\, Nine Mile\, Verse Daily\, Nixes Mate\, On the Seawall\, Hole in the Head Review\, Gyroscope\, Peacock Journal\, & Connotation. He’s read at venues throughout New England\, the Mid-Atlantic & the Southwest. Howie also facilitates a weekly poetry discussion group through the Northampton\, MA Forbes Library. A multiple Pushcart nominee\, Cutthroat Discovery Poet\, & recipient of the NOVA 2022 poetry prize\, he’s co-poetry editor of Cutthroat & lives in Florence\, MA. https://howiefaerstein.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-september-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T200000
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SUMMARY:One Hot Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:It’s so darn hot that even the poetry is sizzling! \nOn Wednesday\, August 16 from 6:30 – 8:00pm\, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. August’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that illustrate summer\, hot weather\, and passion. Or if you’re feeling too darn hot read a poem that involves ways to cool down. (And if you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nWine and chocolate will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room\, 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414. \nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nBio: Arianna Alexsandra Collins: Naturalist. Writer. Poet. Wild Edibles Enthusiast. Arianna holds a M.S. in Environmental Administration and has over twenty years of experience in teaching\, community engagement\, and public ritual. She is a writer and poet and has a bi-monthly column “Into the Outside” in The Ashfield News. She has featured articles on learning wild edible and medicinal flora in MassWildlife\, Ecological Landscape Alliance\, and Northern Woodlands. You can find examples of her poetry and articles on her blog Hearken to Avalon. She is also the author of the historical fantasy novel Hearken to Avalon. Through her business Offerings for Community Building she offers a variety of services in community engagement activities\, outdoor immersion experiences\, and administrative support.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/one-hot-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in August
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D.K. McCutchen at Forbes Library. \nNo 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 of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement \nBio: D.K. McCutchen lives on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi. Publications include LGBTQIA-friendly gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction\, JELLYFISH DREAMING (JFD)\, winner of the 2022 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize with publication in the US & UK. WHALE ROAD\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book & Pushcart nominee about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific\, also has an update forthcoming with JackLeg Press Oct. 16\, 2023. She’s published short work in Fourth Genre\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Rosebud\, Identity Theory\, LCRW and others\, and is currently working on JFD’s companion novel ICE\, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-august-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:A Writer's Night in July
DESCRIPTION:Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday\, July 20\, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Howie Faerstein. Howie is the author of 5 books (Play a Song on the Drums He Said\, Out of Order\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, Googootz and Other Poems and STAY). His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals. A multiple Pushcart nominee\, Cutthroat Discovery Poet\, & recipient of the NOVA 2022 poetry prize\, he’s co-poetry editor of Cutthroat & lives in Florence\, MA. \nYou may register by calling 413-565-4150\, option 1. You may also come without registering.\nThe Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-writers-night-in-july-2
LOCATION:The Longmeadow Adult Center\, 211 Maple Road\, Longmeadow\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:A Writer's Night,Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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