Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present Joy Baglio on Thursday, March 12 from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Joy Deva Baglio is a writer of speculative-literary fiction and the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, based in Northampton MA (and virtually). Her short stories appear widely in
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Writers Night Out in April
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday April 7th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer James K. Zimmerman, 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
Writers Night Out in March
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday March 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Patricia Lee Lewis, 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
Writers Night Out in February
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday February 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Sara Eddy, 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 January
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday January 6th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Corinne Demas, 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
Straw Dog Writes
Straw Dog Writers Guild members who would like to spend some time writing together can join a Zoom session. We will spend 15 minutes on introductions, a 45 minute writing session, have a 15 minute discussion, then write for a second 45 minute period of time. Afterwards, the Zoom room will remain open for a
12th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books
Join us for a celebration of Straw Dog Writers Guild authors at the 12th Annual Author showcase! Authors will have five minutes each to read from their work and author Andrea Hairston will MC the event. Books will be available for purchase at this in-person event. The list of readers is: Janet Crosier LJ
CANCELLED – Writers Night Out in December
Writers Night Out on Tuesday December 2nd has been cancelled. Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer and Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellow Darlene Elias, at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up
Start Your New Year off “Write”!
Do you want to start writing in 2026? Or do you want to get back to your writing after the busy holiday season? Join us for this (Zoom) Writing Workshop, Start Your New Year off “Write!” Saturday, January 10, 2026 1-2:30 PM Register HERE Activities and Learning Objectives … Tips on how to set up and maintain
A Cosmic Poetry Share
Groovy! Whether you’ve got poems about stars, planets, cosmic adventures, out of this world encounters, or out of body experiences, we want to hear them! (And you don’t have any of your own, find and read someone else’s poetry.) Come read and listen on Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30-8:00pm in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting