2024 Residency Writers Read

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Straw Dog Writers Guild and Edith Wharton’s The Mount present a virtual reading of the 2024 Writers-in-Residency on Saturday, September 14, 4:00-5:15pm. Our 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya, Stevie Billow, Eleanor Fuller, Jason Prokowiew, Mariah Rigg, Whitney Scharer, Mistinguette Smith, Julia Thacker, Jen Alandy Trahan. Register for this free Zoom presentation HERE. To read Read More

A Writer’s Night

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

On Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New Read More

What Poems Want Reading and Revising with Care

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

When giving feedback about poems, we’re often asked to point out what’s “working” and what’s “not working” and discuss revisions that would make poems “stronger.” But what would it mean to enter a different kind of relationship with our writing—one in which we let the poem itself guide us to what it needs? In this Read More

Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon 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

A Writer’s Night

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

On Thursday, October 17 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Doug Anderson. Doug Anderson’s first full length book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His Read More

Writers Night Out

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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 5, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Steve Bernstein 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

Poetry Critique Meet Up in November

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 Saturday, November Read More

Poetry Critique Meet-up in November

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, November Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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