Straw Dog Writers Guild

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  • Learn about the Emerging Writing Fellow of Color – on ZOOM!

    ZOOM MA

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on July 21st at 7pm on ZOOM to learn about the Emerging Writer of Color Fellowship.  You'll learn about: Eligibility criteria The writing genre for this term Benefits available to Fellows Two previous Fellows will be there to answer your questions. Register HERE. Applications will open on August 1, 2026. Read More

  • Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom
    Poetry Critique Meet

    Poetry Critique Meet Up in July

    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  July 27th, Read More

  • Writers Night Out in August

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 4th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out 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 the evening showcases our Read More

  • Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation

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

    Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s Read More

  • Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, 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

  • Quite contrary – Contradictions in Poems

    How can you inject more 'oomph' into your poems, deepening them with pleasing  contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds, images, and themes  in the poem taut. In this fun, interactive workshop, we'll look at some poems containing  opposing effects or contents, then create new work that dances on both sides Read More

    Free

  • Writers Night Out in October with Jason Prokowiew

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 6th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jason Prokowiew, 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

  • Voices for Resistance: Poetry, Queer Identity, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff

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

    Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls, "politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry, When I was 8 Read More

  • WriteAngles Writing Conference

    Bay Path University 588 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, United States

    Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! This year we're at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th, 2026.

  • Writers Night Out in November with Don Lesser

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Don Lesser, 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