• Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

    Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

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    Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom. Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com Format Focus: EVERYONE READS! Read a 3-minute piece Co-create a reading and listening experience with your fellow writers that is generous, dynamic and heart-felt Brief positive responses Read More

  • A Writer’s Night in March

    On Thursday, March 21, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Richard Michelson. 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 Read More

  • Writing Inside the Body

    A.P.E. Gallery 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA, United States

    Susan Sensemann will lead a 2 hour writing workshop at A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton in conjunction with a five-person exhibition "Physiotasmagorical” which investigates corporeal secrets that reside at the juncture of the clinical and the imaginary in fantastic conjurings of our internal selves. We will begin with a discussion of the "felt sense" Read More

  • March Madness Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Why are March Hares mad? To ponder this and other questions about life and Spring, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. This March Madness challenge we toast to our frisky, cabin-fever, crazed, momentary-lapses-of-reason, mad-world poems. (And you don't have any, Read More

  • Writers Night Out

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

    Join us on Tuesday April 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Diana Whitney 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

  • WriteAngles Conference

    Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

    Straw Dog Writers Guild and our literary partners around western MA are re-imagining the WriteAngles Writers Conference, a local gem for over 30 years. Please save the date, April 6, 2024, for this day-long gathering of writers. That’s a long way away, you say? You’re right, but that gives us lots of time to brainstorm Read More