Writers Night Out in May
May 6 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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 the evening showcases our Featured Reader.
Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.
Hosted by Jacqueline Sheehan, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.
Sponsored by Valley Home Improvement.
Astrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher, who advised middle and high school literary magazines, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury, Vermont, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens, and loved writing with all her students.
She plays violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts, contra dances, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school.
She grew up in Gambier, Ohio, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia.
She and her wife Cece, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage, lived in Northampton, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren.
