Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Bratcher Wlodyka 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 Read More

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! Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt. Read a 3-minute piece Brief positive responses after readers share Listeners Read More

2025 Emerging Writer Fellowship Virtual Launch Event

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2025 Emerging Writer Fellowship Virtual Launch Event Tuesday, August 20, 2024 6 p.m. ET Virtual via Zoom. Register Here Join Nicole Young-Martin (program founder) and Regine Jackson (2022 Fellow) to hear about this year's Emerging Writer Fellowship Program. Attendees will learn about this year's application and selection process as well as details about the program Read More

Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 3, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D. Dina Friedman 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 Read More

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! Co-create and reading and listening experience that is generous, dynamic, and heart-felt. Read a 3-minute piece Brief positive responses after readers share Listeners Read More

Special Celebration of Straw Dog Members

Michelson Gallery 132 Main St, Northampton, United States

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on September 10, 5-7pm at the beautiful Michelson Gallery on Main Street in Northampton for a special event for members! This is a time to celebrate Straw Dog Writers Guild Members (it’s never too late to become a member) with drinks and appetizers. Our Advisors and community sponsors will be Read More

2024 Residency Writers Read

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Straw Dog Writers Guild and Edith Wharton’s The Mount present a virtual reading of the 2024 Writers-in-Residency on Saturday, September 14, 4:00-5:15pm. Our 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya, Stevie Billow, Eleanor Fuller, Jason Prokowiew, Mariah Rigg, Whitney Scharer, Mistinguette Smith, Julia Thacker, Jen Alandy Trahan. Register for this free Zoom presentation HERE. To read Read More

A Writer’s Night

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

On Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New Read More

What Poems Want Reading and Revising with Care

Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United States

When giving feedback about poems, we’re often asked to point out what’s “working” and what’s “not working” and discuss revisions that would make poems “stronger.” But what would it mean to enter a different kind of relationship with our writing—one in which we let the poem itself guide us to what it needs? In this Read More

Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon 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 Read More

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