Straw Dog Writers Guild
-
-
Everyone Reads Second Sundays Open Mic
zoomCome 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
-
Writers Submission Study Hall
zoomStart submitting today, April 15th, with Submission Study Hall! Let other writers inspire and support you through the submission process. At Writers Submission Study Hall we dedicate 90 minutes to bringing our writing into the world. Come share resources and focus on supporting each other in submitting our work. Writers Submission Study Hall starts April 15th and continues every other Tuesday at 9-10:30am EST on ZOOM. If you’re interested in participating
-
Straw Dog Writes Weekly Writers Meet Up
zoomStraw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a
-
A Writer’s Night in April
The Longmeadow Adult Center 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA, United StatesStraw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Regine Jackson on Thursday, April 17th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Regine Jackson is a writer based in Springfield, Massachusetts, specializing in writing stories across horror, speculative, and fantasy genres. Additionally, she explores themes of mental health, the effects of inner-city life and
-
Straw Dog Writes Weekly Writers Meet Up
zoomStraw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a
-
Writers Submission Study Hall every other Tuesday
zoomStart submitting today with Submission Study Hall! Let other writers inspire and support you through the submission process. At Writers Submission Study Hall we dedicate 90 minutes to bringing our writing into the world. Come share resources and focus on supporting each other in submitting our work. Writers Submission Study Hall starts April 15th and continues every other Tuesday at 9-10:30am EST on ZOOM. If you’re interested in participating
-
Wake Up Poetry Share
Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United StatesWhat activities wake you up? What gets you going? Do you ever feel like you want to shake your friend, neighbor, or country awake? Find examples of your poems to read where you may feel pleading or demanding that people wake up, where you feel inspired to start the day, when all your cells are
-
Straw Dog Writes Weekly Writers Meet Up
zoomStraw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a
-
-
Grief Doesn’t Follow a Linear Path
Lilly Library 19 Meadow Street, Florence, MA, United StatesAs writers, when we write about the grieving process, we need to acknowledge that grief is as individual as we are. Writers differentiate characters by giving them unique voices, gestures, and habits. How they love and how they grieve is yet another way of making your characters come alive and stay with your reader long
-
Writers Night Out in May
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Astrid Lindstrom 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