Writers Night In – Featured Reader Eileen Kennedy
ZOOM MAOPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! October 6 @ 7:00pm ONLINE We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each Read More
SDWG ANNUAL MEETING
ZOOM MAOctober 15, 2020 at 7pm hosted on Zoom Come discuss ways Straw Dog Writers Guild can further sustain and inspire your writing! Join us in our 10th year anniversary as we gather to elect new board members and officers, and discuss our goals moving forward as an anti-racist organization. Open to all members, join us! Read More
Swirl & Vortex Poetry Workshop with Patrick Donnelly
zoomPatrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Read More
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Jan Freeman
zoomHere’s how it works: We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4, 2-4 p.m. Here’s how it works: To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown Jan Freeman is a Read More
Writers Night In – Featured Reader Stephanie Shafran
zoomOPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! Thursday, November 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE *We have changed our usual Tuesday to a Thursday due to the election. We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to Read More
Memoir Workshop: Telling Stories, Finding Meaning
zoomZOOM SIGN UP/REGISTRATION - Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd--qqDIiHdb_D90gB6efMAVN-hd4CLcr After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. In writing memoir, we are telling stories from our lives, but how do we decide which ones to tell? And why should anyone care? In this workshop, participants will practice Read More
GIVING TUESDAY
CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD ON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 2020 may be a year we’d like to forget, but let’s end it with a celebration of giving to organizations that make a difference. Straw Dog is again participating in Giving Tuesday. We’re already well on our way to our $10,000 goal with a generous Read More
Wine & Chocolate with Straw Dog Founders
Facebook LiveJoin Jacqueline Sheehan, Patricia Lee Lewis, and Ellen Meeropol for a lively discussion about Straw Dog Writers Guild, and the many accomplishments over the past 10 years. Writers in Western Mass know how to support each other. We know how to listen when the writing life is hard and cheer like crazy when we have Read More
Writers Night In – Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
zoomOPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! Thursday, Dec 1, 2020 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading Read More
Artist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out Workshop
zoomWorkshop for all genres: Artist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out with Suzanne S. Rancourt Visual writing prompts, viewed literally from various points of view, strengthens character development, dialogue, and the individual writer, by learning how to see as is. We learn how to witness. Exploring what creates tension and tone in Read More