WriteAngles Call for Proposals!

Be part of the only writers conference in Western Massachusetts! If you are an experienced writing professional or teacher of writing submit a proposal to be part of the 2025 WriteAngles Conference HERE. If you have an idea for a session that you would like to see at the conference, you can submit that idea HERE. Read More

Writers Night Out in May

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

Join 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 Read More

Poetry Critique Meet Up in May

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 May Read More

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

A Writer’s Night in May – Poetry and Journalism: A Marriage of Words

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

Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writers Marty Dobrow and Missy-Marie Montgomery on Thursday, May 15th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Missy-Marie Montgomery is a poet, an artist, and a recently retired professor of English at Springfield College. Her poetry has been published in more than two dozen journals, including Read More

Glendale Ridge Vineyard Bingo Fundraiser

Glendale Ridge Vineyard 155 Glendale Rd, Southampton, MA, United States

Glendale Ridge Vineyard and Molly Keehn the Bingo Queen have generously offered to support Straw Dog Writers Guild with their monthly Bingo game. Enjoy a friendly game, have a glass of wine and support Straw Dog Writer's Guild! As noted on the Glendale Ridge event page, "This event promises laughter and camaraderie as participants come Read More

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