Learn about the Emerging Writing Fellow of Color – on ZOOM!

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on July 21st at 7pm on ZOOM to learn about the Emerging Writer of Color Fellowship.  You’ll learn about: Eligibility criteria The writing genre for this term Benefits available to Fellows Two previous Fellows will be there to answer your questions. Register HERE. Applications will open on August 1, 2026.

How to nail your next public reading

Whether your next reading is in-person or virtual, an open mic, a journal launch, or a longer feature, join Michael Favala Goldman for a practical guide to mastering techniques that connect you with your text and with your audience in your own unique and memorable way. We will learn about presence, pacing, physical space and

Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation

Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s

Inspired Poetry Share

Enjoy an evening of reading and listening to poetry! Bring your newest work, your favorite work, or a poem you read from another poet. We come together on a quarterly basis to read our work and/or the work of others and enjoy filling our ears and hearts with poetry. This is a safe space to

WriteAngles Writing Conference

Hold the date for the WriteAngles Writing Conference! This year we’re at Bay Path University in Longmeadow on October 24th, 2026.

Writers Night Out in July

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 7th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Parzymieso, at 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

Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, at 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

A Writer’s Night in June with Ellen Meeropol

Straw Dog Writers Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present author Ellen Meeropol for A Writer’s Night on Thursday, June 11th from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, Sometimes an Island, The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams