• Voices for Resistance: Can (Y)our writing help change the world?

    Boutelle-Day Poetry Center College Lane, Northampton, MA, United States

    Voices for Resistance: Can (Y)our writing help change the world? A reading and conversation with Ellen Meeropol and Bill Newman In times of political and social turmoil, many writers struggle to find effective ways to change minds and hearts with our work. In this Voices for Resistance event, fiction writer Ellen Meeropol and columnist, podcaster Read More

  • Poetry Critique Meet Up in June

    Poetry Critique Meet Up in Decembber

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

    Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word. Register for Sunday December Read More

  • Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Dalton Free Public Library 462 Main Street, Dalton, MA

    This Wednesday and every Wednesday: in-person Weekly Wednesday Writing Group at the @daltonfreepubliclibrary “Curious Writers” will meet at the Dalton Free Public Library on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm for our Weekly Wednesday Writing Group in collaboration with the Dalton Free Public Library. We will meet for dedicated writing time with a focus on: getting settled Read More

  • A Cosmic Poetry Share

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Groovy! Whether you’ve got poems about stars, planets, cosmic adventures, out of this world encounters, or out of body experiences, we want to hear them! (And you don't have any of your own, find and read someone else's poetry.) Come read and listen on Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30-8:00pm in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Read More

  • WRITER’S OUT LOUD OPEN MIC NIGHT

    The WOW Center 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA

    WRITER'S OUT LOUD OPEN MIC NIGHT Thursday December 11 • 7pm Free admission. The WOW Center, 105 Elm Street Westfield   WRITERS OUT LOUD! – A FREE low-pressure, DecemberFest open mic night welcoming all, who love prose and poetry. Authors, poets and writers of every skill level are invited to share a 3–5-minute piece for Read More

  • Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

    Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic

    zoom

    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

  • Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Weekly Wednesday Writing Group

    Dalton Free Public Library 462 Main Street, Dalton, MA

    This Wednesday and every Wednesday: in-person Weekly Wednesday Writing Group at the @daltonfreepubliclibrary “Curious Writers” will meet at the Dalton Free Public Library on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm for our Weekly Wednesday Writing Group in collaboration with the Dalton Free Public Library. We will meet for dedicated writing time with a focus on: getting settled Read More

  • Writers Night Out in January

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday January 6th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Corinne Demas, 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 Read More