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  • Writers Night Out in September

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Steward 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

  • Straw Dog Writers Guild 15th Anniversary Celebration & Reading

    The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

      Join the Straw Dog Writers Guild to celebrate their 15th anniversary with a lively panel discussion featuring Guild co-founders and members. Highlighted are readings by novelist Michael Jerome Plunkett, Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writing Fellow Darlene Elias, and poet Julia Thacker, both alumni of the Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Emerging Writers Residency, which is

  • Writers Night Out in February

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday February 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Sara Eddy, 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

  • Inspired Poetry Share

    Enjoy an evening of reading and listening to poetry! Bring your newest work, your favorite work, or a poem you read from another poet. We come together on a quarterly basis to read our work and or the work of others and enjoy filling our ears and hearts with poetry. This is a safe space to

  • Stepping Into the Story – Using Psychodrama to Deepen Character Development

    Easthampton Public Library Annex 52 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, United States

    Dive into character building using psychodrama with author and poet Kevin Thomas! March 28th from 10am-12pm Easthampton Public Library Annex In this experiential writer’s craft workshop, participants will use psychodrama to enter their characters’ worlds as fully as possible—speaking in their voices, seeing through their eyes, and discovering unspoken motivations. By moving beyond the page

  • Cracking Open Your Poetic Process

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

    Cracking Open Your Poetic Process: a roundtable experiment in stimulating our personal approaches to writing poetry. Co-facilitated by Lindsay Rockwell and Becky Jones Saturday, April 4, 2026, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Coolidge Museum at Forbes Library 20 West Street, Northampton In this roundtable experiment, up to twelve poets will gather to share reflections, ideas and

  • A Writer’s Night in April with Janet Aalfs

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

    Straw Dog Writers Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet Aalfs for A Writer's Night on Thursday, April 9th from  6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Janet E. Aalfs, former poet laureate of Northampton, MA, is a Jian Mei Tai Chi/ Qigong chief instructor, an 8th degree black belt, and the founder and director of Lotus

  • Inspired Poetry Share

    Enjoy an evening of reading and listening to poetry! Bring your newest work, your favorite work, or a poem you read from another poet. We come together on a quarterly basis to read our work and or the work of others and enjoy filling our ears and hearts with poetry. This is a safe space

  • Writers Night Out in May with Eileen P. Kennedy

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 5th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Eileen P. Kennedy, 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

  • Virtual Poetry Book Launch!

    ZOOM MA
    Virtual Event

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild members and poets Edward Doyle-Gillespie and Trisha Leigh Shufelt for the virtual book launch of their new books of poetry! Each poet will read from their new chapbook followed by conversation and audience questions. Please register for this event HERE. Doyle-Gillespie is a Baltimore City poet and writer. He holds