Straw Dog Writers Guild

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  • Writers Night Out in July

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

    Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 7th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Parzymieso, 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

  • 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 Up in July

    Poetry Critique Meet
    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 with Phyllis St. George

    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 with featured writer Phyllis St. George, 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

  • 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

  • Poetry Critique Meet-up on Zoom

    Poetry Critique Meet Up in August

    Poetry Critique Meet
    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 August 24th, 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

  • A Writer’s Night in September

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

    On Thursday, September 10th, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Stephen Billias. Stephen Billias is the published author of seven fantasy novels, one collection of short stories, and a literary novel, Pilgrim Maya, that he wrote with his wife Bela Breslau. He is a MacDowell Fellow. Stephen has 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

  • WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Stephen Billias!

    Westfield on Weekends 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA, United States

    WOW Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild to present author Stephen Billias! Westfield on Weekends (WOW) in association with Straw Dog Writers Guild and WhipCity Wordsmiths, will present poet and author Stephen Billias as part of the free “Writers Out Loud Guest Author Series.”  The event will take place on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 Read More