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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \nSunday – November 5\, 2017 \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER: Eric Laursen \nEric Laursen will talk about his upcoming publication\, The Duty to Stand Aside\, Nineteen Eighty-four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort. \nEric is an independent journalist\, activist\, and commentator. He is the author of The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan (AK Press\, 2012)\, a BookList Editor’s Choice selection; and co-author of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull Press\, Spring 2010)\, which tells the story of the 2008 economic meltdown in text-and-graphics format. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications\, including The Nation\, The Village Voice\, In These Times\, Z Magazine\, The Indypendent\, HuffingtonPost.com\, and The Arkansas Review. He is currently writing a biography of Alex Comfort. A graduate of Columbia University\, he lives in Buckland\, Massachusetts. \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nThe featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.) \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/5312
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop at The Great Falls Word Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Easy Way to  \nWrite 30 Poems in 30 Days \n For Fun and Your Favorite Non-Profit!*  \n(namely – *The Center for New Americans) \nA Workshop for Poets and Non-Poets Alike \nby Tommy Twilite \n  \nSaturday Noon-2pm\, October 14th\, 2017 \nGreat Falls Discovery Center\, Turners Falls MA \nas part of the \nThe Great Falls Word Festival in Turners Falls\nUsing simple prompts\, found objects\, family photographs\, musical compositions\, blind luck\, and a small amount of consistent effort and imagination\, Tommy will demonstrate some of the “tricks of the trade” he used to complete his wildly successful 2016 campaign to write “30 Poems In November” and how he was able to lead the Center For New Americans effort to far surpassing its fundraising goals.  The emphasis of this 90-minute workshop will be on having fun\, and on using your creativity and positive energy to fulfill your own dream of writing 30 Poems in 30 Days. Feedback\, discussion\, and participation from the group is expected and strongly encouraged.   \n\nTommy Twilite\, a.k.a. Tom Clark\, is a retired Fire Captain\, former EMT\, woodworker\, amateur chef\, vintage car enthusiast\, musician\, songwriter and poet who lives in Florence\, Massachusetts.  He is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence PoetsSocietyy and Executive Editor of Silkworm.  Tommy broadcasts a weekly radio show on WXOJ-FM Valley Free Radio called the Twilite Poetry Pub which features an eclectic selection of music\, poetry\, and guests.  He was also the 2016 chairperson for “30 Poems In November”\, a fundraising event for the Center For New Americans.  Tommy believes that poetry has the power to change the world.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-workshop-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Featured Reader & Open Mic @ The Great Falls Word Festival
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/5194
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01076
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Sidewalk Typewriters @ The Great Falls Word Festival
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/sidewalk-typewriters-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01076
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171001T110000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \nOctober 1st\, 2017 \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER: Mary V. Dearborn\nMary V. Dearborn is the author of six books\, the most recent a biography of Peggy Guggenheim. She received a B.A. in English and Classics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University\, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She lives in Buckland\, Massachusetts. Her Ernest Hemingway: A Biography was published by Knopf in May 2017. \n  \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nThe featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.) \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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