Writers Night Out April

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, April 4, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Stewart at our NEW HOME: Forbes Library.* No 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 Read More

Uneven Characters: Filling in the Cracks

The Artist Cafe 1365 Main Street, Springfield, MA, United States

Writing characters can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be! In this workshop, we will go over what makes a character three-dimensional, using inspiration from ourselves and the people around us to create realistic characters (positive and negative traits, dynamic vs. static characters, etc.), and dialogue vs. action and how to utilize both to Read More

A Writer’s Night in April

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild present writer, linguist, and humorist Alexis Johnson. Co-founder of the much acclaimed International Language Institute, for over forty years Lexi has taught Spanish, Italian, Esperanto, Catalan as well as Arabic and Chinese. Her first book, Playing With a Full Deck, is a (mostly) humorous look at Read More

Viking Runestone Literary Magazine Launch

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

You are invited to join us for a celebration of artists and writers from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. We are excited to announce the launch of The Viking Runestone, Spring 2023 Volume 5 at Forbes Library, Thursday, April 27 at 6 pm. Straw Dog Writers Guild is proud to collaborate with the staff Read More

Writers Night Out in May

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, May 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Simon Hunt  at Forbes Library. No 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 Read More

A Writer’s Night in May

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Beth Filson. Join us on Thursday, May 18 from 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center.. Beth is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, local bookseller, writer and self-taught artist. While her background is in poetry, she’s devoted a good Read More

Small Publishing in a Big Universe

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Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for our May craft workshop "Small Publishing in a Big Universe" with writer Steven Radecki on Sunday, May 21, 4:00-5:30pm via Zoom. Between traditional publishing and self-publishing there is small publishing. We discuss the place that independent publishers play in the publishing ecosystem, comparing and contrasting the submissions processes, benefits, Read More

Writers Night Out in June

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, June 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Shanta Lee Gander at Forbes Library. No 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 Read More

Voices for Resistance

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Join co-hosts Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library for our annual Voices for Resistance on Wednesday, June 14th, 7:00-8:30pm via Zoom. Register HERE. Reader Bios: Sejal Shah is the author of award-winning debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance (University of Georgia Press). Her writing has appeared in Brevity, Conjunctions, the Guardian, Read More

A Writer’s Night in June

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center are pleased to present Gary Metras, Easthampton’s first Poet Laureate and author of twenty-one collections of poetry. Join us on Thursday, June 15 from 6:45-7:45pm at The Longmeadow Adult Center. Gary's latest book, Vanishing Points, was selected as a Must Read 2022 Poetry by the Massachusetts Read More

Writers Night Out in July

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, July 11, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer  Anne Pinkerton at Forbes Library. NOTE the date change due to the July 4 holiday. No 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 Read More

Poetry Ritual 2023

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On July 13 at 6:30pm join 15 poets from the Poetry Critique Meet-up for a group reading, hosted by Michael Favala Goldman. Each poet gets five minutes, for a varied and moving experience. Free. Request the zoom link by emailing poetryritual2023@gmail.com.

A Writer’s Night in July

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

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 Read More

Writers Night Out in August

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, August 1, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D.K. McCutchen at Forbes Library. No 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 Read More

One Hot Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

It's so darn hot that even the poetry is sizzling! On 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, Read More

Writers Night Out in September

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

Join us on Tuesday, September 5 , 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Howie Faerstein at Forbes Library. No 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 Read More

A Writer’s Night in September

The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United States

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 Read More

Straw Dog Writes New Online Program

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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 Read More

Writers-in-Residence Reading

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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 Read More

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