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SUMMARY:Giving & Receiving Manuscript Feedback - Workshop with Celia Jeffries
DESCRIPTION:Giving and receiving manuscript feedback \nNo one writes in a void. Although we may sometimes deny it\, most of us write to be read. But there are times when having your work read by others can be damaging or even silencing\, particularly when you are in the formative stages of a project. Many workshops have parameters for giving feedback\, ranging from “do no harm’ to ‘only speak the positive.” These are good approaches\, but what if you really want/need to hear what’s not working\, and perhaps some ideas on how to improve things? \nJoin us on Dec 1\, for an interactive discussion and overview of some ways to give and receive respectful\, useful feedback. \nLed by  Straw Dogs Steering Committee member\, Celia Jeffries\, MA\, MFA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/giving-receiving-manuscript-feedback-workshop-with-celia-jeffries
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvousbethf
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-register-today
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at The Great Falls Word Festival
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-the-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\,\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - ROUNDTABLE:  ALLY  V  APPROPRIATION
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-ally-v-appropriation
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/ Featured Readers: Stewart & Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo! Turners Falls\, MA.  \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event.  \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Sign up for open mic by 3:15 pm.  \nLast Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \n  \nFeatured Readers – Pamela Stewart & Joshua Michael Stewart \nJoshua Michael Stewart has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Rattle\, Salamander\, Mudfish\, Brilliant Corners\, Talking River Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems is Break Every String\,  (Hedgerow Books\, 2016.)   www.joshuamichaelstewart.com \n  \nPamela Stewart (known as Jody) is a true “boomer” and New England born and bred.  She took up writing in grade school because she couldn’t draw.   She received a BA from Goddard’s ADP Program and an MFA (sort of) from University of Iowa.  She’s taught creative writing at several universities including ASU\, University of Arizona\, UC Irvine\, and University of Houston.  In 1982 she received a Guggenheim and traveled to Cornwall in the UK where she returned to live for 7 years. Jody came back to western Massachusetts in 1990 and in 1994 she\, and her then husband\, moved to a farm at the edge of Hawley. Over the years she’s published in a number of magazines\, received 3 Pushcart publications\, and is the author of 6 full-length books of poems: The St. Vlas Elegies (L’Epervier press\, 1977)\, Cascades (L’Epervier Press\, 1979)\, Nightblind (Ion Books\, 1985)\, Infrequent Mysteries (Alice James Books\, 1991)\, The Red Window  (Univ. of Georgia Press\, 1997)\, and Ghost Farm (Pleasure Boat Studio\, 2010.) A chapbook\, Just Visiting\, was published by Grey Suit Editions\, London\, 2014. Jody continues to live on the farm with 3 dogs\, a number of elderly sheep\, a rescued race horse\, a pudgy donkey\,  a couple of goats\, and some old pigs and birds. At some point she intends to tackle a “new and selected” if the dogs let her. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-stewart-stewart
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Dead Writers Dance - Literary Halloween
DESCRIPTION:Do you write?\nDo you read?\nDo you wish the NYTimes Book Review would ask\nYOU which dead authors you’d like to have dinner with?Forget dinner\, come DANCE with them!\nDress up as your favorite author (or character) and Join Straw Dog Writers for our inaugural DEAD WRITERS DANCE Benefit. \nDJ\nCash bar\nFree snacks\nSurprise accolades\nWord games\nRaffles (of writerly essentials)\nTickets:  $20 in advance\, $25 at the door\n\nWE ARE LOOKING FOR UNDERWRITERS & SPONSORS!\nIf you would like to be an underwriter for this Straw Dog Writers Benefit\, please contact admin@strawdogwriters.org
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/deadwritersdance
LOCATION:121 Club\, Eastworks\, Easthampton\, MA\, Easthampton\, MA
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T010000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-2
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Poetic Dream Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Poetic Dream  Workshop with Tzivia Gover \nDreams contain all the elements great poetry including metaphor\, symbolism\, vivid imagery\, humor\, and personification. Thus\, it is no surprise that classical and contemporary poets from Coleridge to Hughes to Clifton and more have used dreams and visions to craft their works. Dreams can help new writers and experienced scribes alike by providing inspiration\, prompts\, raw material\, and fresh perspective. In this hands-on workshop we will look to our dreams with pen in hand to find ready texts that can be crafted into poems or other creative literary expressions. Participants will write poems or other creative texts inspired by their dream and learn how dreams can benefit the creative writing process. \nThis workshop is open to everyone\, whether they consider themselves a poet or not\, and whether or not they remember their dreams. The aim of this workshop is to increase personal self-awareness and emotional growth\, and to increase creative and soulful awareness and abilities through exploring dreams and poetry. \nTzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays\, and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/the-poetic-dream-workshop
LOCATION:South Hadley Public Library\, 2 Canal St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T210000
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at Graham Hall\, Smith College
DESCRIPTION:POETS READING\nJanet E Aalfs\nAlice Barrett\nJean Blakeman\nAnna Bozena Bowen\nFloyd Cheung\nCandace R Curran\nBeth Filson\nMichael Goldman\nTzivia Gover\nSharon A Harmon\nJane McPhetres Johnson\nMary Ellen Kelly\nPatricia Lee Lewis\nRichard Michelson\nBurleigh Mutén\nJovonna Van Pelt\nChristine Anne Pratt\nStephanie B Shafran\nCynthia Suopis\nJane Yolen
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-graham-hall-smith-college
LOCATION:Graham Hall\, Smith College\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T170000
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SUMMARY:NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole M. Young – Featured Poet\n\nNicole M. Young is a performance poet\, playwright\, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit\, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts\, New York\, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album\, In/Put:  Live from the Valley\, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website  \n \nCandace Curran – Open Mic Host\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T160000
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SUMMARY:Straw Dog Writers Guild Authors Showcase!
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, at South Hadley Public Library at 6 p.m.  \nAUTHORS READING \nElizabeth George \nAmy Laprade \nSusan LaRosa \nRuth Lehrer \nMelanie S. Lewis \nEd Orzechowski \nMichael Ponsor \nJessica B. Sokol \nJoshua Michael Stewart \nMelissa Volker \nTom Weiner \nEllen Wittlinger
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-writers-guild-authors-showcase
LOCATION:South Hadley Public Library\, 2 Canal St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075
CATEGORIES:Events for Members
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T030000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today!
DESCRIPTION:  \nRegister Here
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T150000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com  \n \n  \nEmily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six mystery and psychological suspense novels\, and one young adult psychological suspense novel\, The Leaf Reader. Titles of her adult novels include: The Broken Teaglass\, a New York Times Notable Crime Book in 2009\, The Evening Spider\, What Strange Creatures\, In Search of Rose Notes \, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Mysteries of 2011\, Miss Me When I’m Gone\, and her latest book\, The Last Thing I Told You\, which released in July 2018 and was one of PureWow’s Best Beach Reads of the summer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Shelburne Falls\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-emily-arsenault
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T110000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
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SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at the Northampton Senior Center
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-the-northampton-senior-center
LOCATION:Northampton Senior Center\, 67 Conz St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nJuly 3\, 2018\n7-9pm \nThe Basement\n21 Center Street\nNorthampton\, MA \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180604T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180604T170000
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SUMMARY:Voices for Resistance - A Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:VOICES FOR RESISTANCE – A CELEBRATION! \nwith special guests Martín Espada\, The Nields\, and Nicole M. Young! \nShort readings by Maria Jose Gimenez\, Lauren Marie Schmidt\, Eileen Kennedy\, Ellen LaFleche\, Dina Friedman\, Christopher J. Sparks & Theresa Vincent \nOPEN MIC   – slots available on June 4. If you’d like to read (max. 4 minutes) please arrive BY 6:45 pm and put your name in the hat. \nThe slots will be chosen\, also randomly\, the evening of the event on June 4. You are invited to read something you wrote or a published piece you admire. \nMonday\, June 4\, 2018\, at 7 pm\nForbes Library Coolidge Museum\nA Straw Dog Writers Guild Social Justice Writing Event
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/voices-resistance-celebration
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180512T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180512T083000
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SUMMARY:Diving Deep: Poetic Craft\, Form and Emotion w/ Gail Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deep: Poetic Craft\, Form and Emotion\nA challenge that many writers face is how to choose artful details when writing about strong emotional content. Some of us may shy away from expressing loss or anger\, or we may produce work that’s overly sentimental. For inspiration\, we will read poems that elevate personal experience by paying close attention to craft. We’ll also engage in an exercise to discover fresh metaphors and experiment with form. Open to poets and prose writers\, this workshop will illustrate how to use poetic craft as a means of diving more deeply. \n  \nBIO: Gail Thomas\nGail Thomas has published four books of poetry\, Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back (2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley (2001) and Finding the Bear (1997). \nOdd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press\, and its “Little Mommy Sonnets” won Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/ Margaret Prize for Traditional Verse. Also\, Waving Back was named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival. \nThomas’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’s Narrative Poetry Prize and the Pat Schneider Poetry Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony and Ucross. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930’s has been taught in college courses. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers\, musicians and storytellers in schools\, nursing homes\, hospitals and libraries across the state. \nThomas teaches\, speaks at conferences and poetry festivals\, and reads her work widely in community and academic settings. www.gailthomaspoet.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/diving-deep
LOCATION:Lily Library\, Florence\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Kathy Ford
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Kathy Ford grew up in Rochester\, New York\, graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1980 with a major in design theory\, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in architecture. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1985 and has been practicing architecture in New York and Massachusetts for the past thirty years. \nHer life as a quilter began shortly after becoming a mother in 1991.\nKathy lives with her two dogs in the hilltowns of western Massachusetts.\nHer body of work can be seen at kathyford.net \n \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-kathy-ford
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180421T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180421T080000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
CREATED:20180330T224031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T200653Z
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SUMMARY:Paths to Publishing - A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable about the pros and cons of different paths to publication can help you figure out where (and where not) to place your writing. Five Straw Dog authors will briefly describe their experiences working with diverse kinds of presses – corporate\, indie\, hybrid\, self-publishing\, as well as working with an agent. Then everyone is invited to participate in the discussion to follow. A great opportunity for anyone wanting to know more about the array of publishing opportunities available today.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/paths-publishing-roundtable-discussion
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T130000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T223111Z
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SUMMARY:EASTHAMPTON BOOKFEST - Compass Roads Reading
DESCRIPTION:POETS READING: \nGail Cleare\nDeborah Dill\nTzivia Gover\nRay Homstead\nPhyllis Katz\nEileen Kennedy\nJan Maher\nEllen Meeropol\nRebecca Hart Olander\nChristine Ann Pratt\nDiane Rachele\nLaura Rodley\nCynthia Suopis\nHilde Weisert\nJane Yolen \nStraw Dog Writers Guild presents our first Poetry Anthology – Compass Roads\, Poems about the Pioneer Valley.\nw/ Editor Jane Yolen. \nhttp://www.strawdogwriters.org/poetry \nEASTHAMPTON BOOKFEST\nApril 14 @ 4 pm.\nWhite Square Books\,  \nEasthampton MA \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/easthampton-bookfest-compass-roads-reading
LOCATION:White Square Books\, 86 Cottage St\, Easthampton\, MA\, 01027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T170000
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CREATED:20180221T002413Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Readers Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
DESCRIPTION:John D. Bidwell is consulting editor of Monique and the Mango Rains\, the critically esteemed book authored by his wife Kris Holloway that chronicles their time in Peace Corps with the Malian midwife Monique Dembele. He is the Executive Director of the United Way of Hampshire County\, and a branding and marketing consultant\, frequent presenter\, and has lectured and taught at the University of Michigan\, University of Massachusetts\, Smith College\, and Marlboro College. John has his BA from McGill University. \n  \n  \n \nKris Holloway is author of the critically acclaimed Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali\, which has been called “a respectful\, unsentimental portrait (and) a poignant and powerful book.” (Kirkus\, Starred Review). She has delivered hundreds of presentations\, and the book remains a favorite “common read” and is used in 150+ college and university courses. Kris is President of CISabroad\, a leading education abroad organization responsible that has sent thousands of students to study and intern abroad worldwide. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. \n  \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-readers-kris-holloway-john-bidwell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T110000
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SUMMARY:Songwriting 101 with Pamela Means
DESCRIPTION:Songwriting 101 with Pamela Means \nREGISTER BELOW \nDESCRIPTION: There is no such thing as writer’s block. Dubious? Come to the Pamela Means Songwriting Workshop and learn new tools\, tips and tricks of the craft to tease out more brilliance from your brain. You will never suffer from blank pages again. Acclaimed songwriter\, Pamela Means\, will help inspire you to push the envelope\, stretch and take risks as a writer. You will expand your lyrical menu through myriad exercises and broaden musical\, melodic and chord choices with a teaspoon taste of music theory for songwriters. You will be pleasantly surprised with what comes up! Bring your instrument\, notebook and a favorite writing utensil. \n  \n \nBIO: A multi-talented performer\, singer\, songwriter\, composer and producer\, Pamela Means’s multiple honors include being named Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s “# 1 Most Wanted New Artist\,” “Wisconsin Folk Artist of the Year\,” “Wisconsin Female Vocalist of the Year\,” and her politically provocative album\, Single Bullet Theory\, was voted 2004’s “Outmusic Outstanding New Recording.” Her latest CD\, Plainfield\, was released last fall. \n  \n  \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \nLoading…
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/songwriting-101-pamela-means
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180318T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180318T110000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
CREATED:20180120T035533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T182319Z
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SUMMARY:How to Begin Writing 10-Minute Plays with Meryl Cohn
DESCRIPTION:How to Begin Writing 10-Minute Plays with Meryl Cohn \nREGISTRATION CLOSED – WORKSHOP IS FULL \nDESCRIPTION:  One of the most common questions about writing plays is how to get started. The germ of an idea for a play may present itself in theme\, in situation\, or in character. We will discuss various ways to enter the life of a play and do writing exercises to get started on a 10-minute play. \n  \nBIO:  Meryl Cohn’s play\, REASONS TO LIVE was named Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times. Awards include The 2015 Eventide Arts Jeremiah Kaplan Award\, The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award\, finalist for the MCC Playwriting Award\, and semifinalist (twice) for the O’Neill National Playwriting Award. Meryl’s work has been produced or developed at The Skylight Theatre\, The Open Fist Theatre\, N.Y. International Fringe Festival\, The Provincetown Theatre\, W.H.A.T.\, The Soho Playhouse\, Counter Productions\, The Road Theatre\, and Smith College\, among others. She earned her MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the author of the humor book DO WHAT I SAY: MS. BEHAVIOR’S GUIDE TO GAY AND LESBIAN ETIQUETTE\, published by Houghton Mifflin. Several of Meryl’s recent short stories have been Glimmer Train Finalists\, and she is just finishing (she hopes) her first novel. \n  \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/begin-writing-10-minute-plays-meryl-cohn
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T110000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
CREATED:20180120T034913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180310T012915Z
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SUMMARY:Collage and Writing with Becky Jones
DESCRIPTION:Collage and Writing with Becky Jones \nREGISTER BELOW  \nDESCRIPTION:  The workshop will provide images\, paper\, scissors\, glue sticks and tape\, though you are free to bring images of your own\, if you would like. You provide your openness to the process of discovery\, along with pen and paper. People will have the optional opportunity to share both their writings and collages. \n \n  \nBIO:  Becky Jones has been leading bereavement writing groups for 17 years. In this workshop\, we have the opportunity to use one of her favorite exercises that combines collage and writing. Originally intended to explore grief and deepen connections to departed loved ones\, it can be used equally well to get in touch with characters in your writing or to gain insight into an issue that is niggling away at you. \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Carol Duke \nThese workshops are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd\, a writer born and raised in Northampton who died in October 2016 at the age of 23. They are made possible by donations to the Northampton Center for the Arts in Eli’s honor. \nLoading… \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/collage-writing-becky-jones
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180304T120000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill with Donna Jenson
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, March  4\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield\, MA \n(co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson \n\nFeatured Reader: Donna Jenson founded Time To Tell™ in 2009 with a mission to spark stories from lives\naffected by incest and sexual abuse to be told and heard. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\,\na non-profit arts service organization. She wrote and performs her one-woman play\, What She\nKnows: One Woman’s Way Through Incest to Joy\, which is based on her own experience of\nsurviving incest and what she did to make her life worth living. She performs her play at\nconferences\, for organizations focused on boys who have sexually abused others\, girls in prison\,\ncollege students\, domestic violence and sexual assault advocates\, and communities in need of\nhealing. She leads Time To Tell What We Know writing and mindfulness workshops for survivors.\nShe is the Board President of the non-profit MERGE: Transforming masculinity to advance gender\nequality. Donna is a leader\, counselor and organizer who built grassroots women’s centers in New\nYork City during the 1970’s and 1980’s and is still active in the leadership development consulting\nand training practice she established in 1986. Her book\, Healing My Life from Incest to Joy\, is a\nnarrative of the choices she made and experiences she had that helped her heal from her childhood\ntrauma. Published by Levellers Press\, Amherst\, MA.  www.timetotell.org \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-3
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180210T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180210T123000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
CREATED:20171218T044300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T042727Z
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SUMMARY:"What’s so important about setting?" Writers Workshop
DESCRIPTION:What’s so important about setting? \nAre you curious about world building? Do your characters inhabit living rooms in the future\, or trek miles at the turn of the century? Setting connects readers to a narrative and is part of the allure that transports them from one place to another\, but setting is so much more than the streets our characters walk down\, the oceans they swim.  In this Reading like a Writer we’ll use short stories and novel excerpts to examine setting and explore how writers use it to establish the worlds in which their protagonists live\, foreshadow plot\, create mood and tone\, and reveal psychological traits. We’ll work on a passage of our own to see how different approaches to setting can add various layers to our work. This session is good for beginning and established writers who want to develop revision strategies to make their fictional worlds breathe. \n  \n \nBio \nJennifer Jacobson is the Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. She is also the Associate Director of the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst. She founded the non-profit organization When Children Save the Day to unite language arts and social action. Her work has been honored with a Creative Teaching Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the National Storytelling Network’s Brimstone Award for transformative community projects\, along with support from the Solidago Foundation and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. Her short story “Heat” received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train\, and “Trouble and Bones” was a Tennessee Williams Festival’s Fiction contest finalist. Jennifer teaches creative writing at Smith College’s Young Women’s Writing Workshop\, and with Voices From Inside\, created the Family Storybook Project curriculum for incarcerated women and their children. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/whats-important-setting-writers-workshop
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171209T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
CREATED:20171129T054837Z
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SUMMARY:SOCIAL ACTIVIST SATURDAY!
DESCRIPTION: A day to activate your inner activist\, join a community roundtable to discuss writing as a tool for social justice\, followed by networking with local writers and activists\, ending an awesome day listening to powerful singer-songwriter activist Pamela Means performing at The Parlor Room! \nJoin us for the whole Saturday\, or come for just the Roundtable Discussion\, or to see Pamela Means! \n \nStraw Dog Writers Guild & Northampton Center for The Arts presents:  \nWRITING AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.\nA Roundtable Discussion\nwith facilitators Ellen Meeropol\, Christopher Sparks\, & Liz Bedell. Join us for a discussion following the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award program. \nSaturday\, December 9\, 2017\nRoundtable Discussion: 3 PM – 4 :30 PM\nNorthampton Center for The Arts\n33 Hawley St. Northampton MA \nFREE TO ATTEND (roundtable discussion) \nPlease RSVP here\nThe Roundtable Discussion is partially funded by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council.\nThank you!\n \nFollowed by songwriter\, singer & social activist  \nPAMELA MEANS at The Parlor Room\n \nSaturday\, December 9\, 2017\nDoors: 6:30 PM\nShow: 7:00 PM \nThe Parlor Room\, \n32 Masonic St\, \nNorthampton\, MA \nAll Ages – $18/Door \n  \n**** If you attend the Roundtable Discussion\, The Parlor Room has generously offered a discount for attendees – Just $15/Door!\nThank you\, Parlor Room! \n(Straw Dog 12/9 Workshop ticket stub will honor a $15 ticket price\, the day of the show\, at the door ($3 off) for Pamela Means at The Parlor Room 12/9.  One offer per ticket stub. Does not guarantee admission in the case of a sold-out show.)
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/socialactivistsaturday
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T123000
DTSTAMP:20260515T120328
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SUMMARY:Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award
DESCRIPTION:ABEL MEEROPOL SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITING AWARD\nWe only have a few tickets left. \nSign up for tickets here!\nStraw Dog Writers Guild will present the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award to poet Patricia Smith at a public event on November 12\, 2017\, 3:30 pm\, at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. \nAbel Meeropol (1903-1986) was a progressive Jewish poet\, playwright and composer writing under the pen name Lewis Allan. He is best known for his iconic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit\,” made famous by Billie Holiday and named the Best Song of the Century by Time Magazine in 1999. He and his wife Anne adopted the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg\, Robert and Michael\, after the executions of their parents. Abel moved to Western Massachusetts in 1980. \nAward recipient Patricia Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a National Endowment for the Arts recipient\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets and Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist. At the November 12 award ceremony\, local singer/songwriter Pamela Means will perform “Strange Fruit” and Abel’s son Robert Meeropol will present the award. Patricia Smith will read from her work and talk about the ways literature can explore important social issues and bring us together as a community. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nACLU of Massachusetts \nARISE for Social Justice \nCenter for New Americans \nClick Workspace \nDavid Ruggles Center for History & Education \nGateway City Arts \nGreen Fire Press \nHoward Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University \nHuman Error Publishing (Great Falls Word Festival) \nJoel Katz & the Strange Fruit film \nThe Literacy Project \nMA Committee Against the Death Penalty\, Hampden Co. chapter \nNational Lawyers Guild – Massachusetts Chapter \nNorthamptonStateHospital.org \nPatchwork Farm Writers Retreat \nPioneer Valley Workers Center \nPoetry Center at Smith College \nRosenberg Fund for Children \nSafe Passage \nSojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership \nVoices from Inside \nWarren J. Plaut Charitable Trust \nW.E.B. DuBois Center\, University of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nWhite Square Books \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Means will be performing Strange Fruit at the event on November 12th.\n\n\n\nRoundtable discussions are planned for December 9 to continue the conversation about social justice and the arts. These programs are co-sponsored by two dozen local organizations and are supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council. \nFor more information about the program and tickets (free but required)\, visit strawdogwriters.org or contact Straw Dog Writers Guild Administrative Director Laura Stone at 413.768.0977 or admin@strawdogwriters.org.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/abel-meeropol-social-justice-writing-award
LOCATION:Gateway City Arts\, 92-114 Race Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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