Annual Celebration!

Save the date for our Annual Celebration! This year we’re gathering at the Florence Civic Center celebrating the 15 year anniversary of Straw Dog Writers Guild.

Potluck Poetry Share

What do you bring to the table? Whether food or skill, speak to what you bring to the banquet of life. Come share your poems about community and activities you enjoy doing in a group or anything else that speaks to your heart – this is a potluck after all. (And you don’t have any

Writers Night Out in October

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 7th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Aine Greaney 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

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Steward 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 August

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 5th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Bill Mailler 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 July

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Janet MacFayden 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

WriteAngles Conference!

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for WriteAngles, the only writers conference in Western Massachusetts. Choose from 20 different workshop and panels to attend during this full day conference, held at Greenfield Community College. Sign up to have an individual meeting with an agent. But most importantly, spend time with other writers in your community who

Glendale Ridge Vineyard Bingo Fundraiser

Glendale Ridge Vineyard and Molly Keehn the Bingo Queen have generously offered to support Straw Dog Writers Guild with their monthly Bingo game. Enjoy a friendly game, have a glass of wine and support Straw Dog Writer’s Guild! As noted on the Glendale Ridge event page, “This event promises laughter and camaraderie as participants come

Book Cover Design For Writers

Your book cover is your most powerful marketing tool for your writing. Discover how great covers get made, and why you should judge a book by its cover. Focused on indie and small press authors, this workshop will cover which questions to ask, which design pitfalls to avoid, and how your cover can bring your

A Writer’s Night in June

Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present writer Astrid Lindstrom on Thursday, June 26th, from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. 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