Your Path Through Todays Publishing Labyrinth

You’re finally ready to get your book out into the world, but with so many bewildering publishing options available to authors today, how do you know which one is right for you? Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and come listen and ask questions to a panel of successful published authors on Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 12:30-2:00 pm at Northampton Center for the Arts

Meet your Panelists: Rebecca Daniels, Sarah Marie Jette, Eileen Kennedy, Suzanne S. Rancourt, and Gail Thomas.

Bios:

Rebecca Daniels writes creative non-fiction. Books include: Women Stage Directors Speak (McFarland, 2000), Keeping the Lights on for Ike (Sunbury, 2019), Finding Sisters (Sunbury, 2021), and That Day And What Came After (Sunbury, 2024). She moved to western Massachusetts in 2015 on retirement from university teaching of theatre (25+ years).

Sarah Marie Jette is the author of What the Wind Can Tell You (Islandport Press, 2018). She received Latinx in Publishing’s 2022-2023 Work in Progress Fellowship and was a semifinalist for the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year recognition. In between teaching and writing, Sarah Marie takes too many photos of her cats and plays board games with her three children

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Eileen P. Kennedy’s. Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards. Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line, 2021) was a finalist for the International Book Awards in General Poetry. She has an upcoming eco-poetry collection, Dread and Splendor: Paintings and Poems for a New Earth with Shanti Arts Press. EileenPKennedy.com.

Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron, Quebecois, Scottish descent, USMC, Army Veteran: author of Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award, Billboard in the Clouds 2004; murmurs at the gate, 2019 received the 2023 Poetry of Modern Conflict Award; Old Stones, New Roads 2021; Songs of Archilochus, 2023. 2x Nature Culture’s Writing the Land Project Fellow; UMI’s New England Literature Program, Sundog Poetry Center, and Solstice MFA, Guest Artist; Keynote for Maine Military & Community Network Conference 2023, 2024.

Gail Thomas has published six books, and her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies. Awards include the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy, Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must
Read” for Waving Back. She teaches poetry and offers private coaching for Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops.