A Writer’s Night in November

The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild are delighted to present “A Writer’s Night” with poet and memoirist Stephanie Shafran on Thursday, November 17 from 6:45-7:45pm. Awakening, Stephanie’s chapbook, was published in 2020. Her work has appeared in journals such as Earth’s Daughters, Slant, Persimmon Tree, and Silkworm. Anthologies featuring Stephanie’s writing include

A Writer’s Night in August

The Longmeadow Adult Center & Straw Dogs Writers Guild present “A Writer’s Night” with Michael C. White on Thursday, August 18, 6:45-7:45pm. Michael is the author of seven novels, including Soul Catcher (Harper Collins), which was a Booksense and Historical Novels Review selection, as well as a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award; A Brother’s

A Writer’s Night in July

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday, July 21, 6:45-7:45pm at the The Longmeadow Adult Center for “A Writer’s Night” with author Ed Orzechowski. In 2016, Ed published You’ll Like It Here—The Story of Donald Vitkus, Belchertown Patient #3394, and is nearing completion of a book about another former state school resident, this time a

A Writer’s Night with Jovonna Van Pelt

The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Jovonna Van Pelt, poet and essayist on Thursday, June 16, 6:45-7:45pm. Jo is the author of “Unrelated Questions” a gorgeous book of poetry published in 2019, and her endearing book of Christmas Stories, “Merry and Bright,” will be published this