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Writers Night Out
Writers Night Out
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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Surprising Readers and Ourselves: Playing with Hermit Crab Essays, Poems, and Stories
Surprising Readers and Ourselves: Playing with Hermit Crab Essays, Poems, and Stories
Upon first glance, “Hermit Crabs” (stories or poems or essays that borrow another “shell” or form, also known as the False Document or Trojan Horse poem or Constraint Essay) look like literary play (and they are fun!). But they’re also great tools to break through writers’ block or overcome resistance to topics that feel heavy, Read More
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Annual Author Showcase Call for Member Submissions
Call to SDWG members who published a book in 2024… Submit your name for the drawing of readers at the 11th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books. Mark your calendars: Saturday, January 26, 2025, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m., a hybrid event in person at the Northampton Friends Meetinghouse and online on Zoom. Straw Read More
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A Writer’s Night
A Writer’s Night
On Thursday, October 17 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Doug Anderson. Doug Anderson’s first full length book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His Read More
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A Transformational Poetry Share
A Transformational Poetry Share
Sometimes you battle your demons on the page. But monsters and mayhem can transform with pen and paper or keystroke and screen. You have the power to turn your villains into wise counsel or a hero's dream. Find examples of your poems to read that have turned from woeful to joyful, from fearful to hopeful, Read More
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