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

A Writer’s Night in November

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

On Thursday, November 21 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Susan Sensemann. Susan Sensemann is an artist and writer who recently moved from Chicago to Easthampton. She is professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught contemporary theory and painting. She

Translation: Reading the World

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Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and presenter Jesse Lee Kercheval for our (rescheduled) November craft workshop, "Translation: Reading the World" on Saturday, November 23 from 10:30am - 12:00pm via Zoom. This is a relaxed, open workshop about translating from any language into English for people just curious about translation as well as practicing translators of

Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 3, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Deborah Gorlin 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

Historical Fiction Confidential

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

Historical fiction is having a moment again in the literary world. Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and writer Dean Cycon in this craft workshop "Historical Fiction Confidential" on Saturday, December 7, from 10:30am - 12:00pm at the Lilly Library in Florence, MA. This workshop will look at the different types of HF, discuss effective research

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

A Writer’s Night

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

The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Jovonna Van Pelt, poet and essayist. Jo is the author of “Unrelated Questions” a gorgeous book of poetry published in 2019, and her endearing book of Christmas Stories, “Merry and Bright,” was published in 2022. Over the years her writing

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