In the beloved Pixar movie, Ratatouille’s muse, Chef Gusteau, has a motto: Anyone Can Cook! With this as our inspiration for food writing, we’ll learn about the genre, explore story types, identify comment elements, try our hand at writing and sharing food vignettes, and workshop food story pitches for publication. You’ll take home resources and
Join us on Tuesday, December 6, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Favala Goldman. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale.
Join us on Tuesday, November 1, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ellen Meeropol. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No
Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and the Longmeadow Adult Center present poet, actor, comedian, Chris O’Carroll, Thursday, October 20 from 6:45-7:45pm. Chris was a virtually unknown stand-up comic in the year 2000 when he self-published Take These Rhymes . . Please: Rude Limericks and Other Crimes Against Literature and began hawking that volume after the show
“Meeting with our Guild advisors: Jane Yolen, Bill Newman, Carol Connare, and Patricia Lee Lewis on Lexi Johnson’s beautiful deck. It was so impressive to hear each Straw Dog writer describe the program that they ran. Poetry critiques, non-fiction critiques, open mics in Easthampton and Longmeadow, craft workshops, writing residencies at The Mount in Lenox, Read More
Join Valley Society, a program of SDWG, and the Leverett Library for Black Writers of the Pioneers Valley on Tuesday, September 27 at 6:30pm for a literary reading of poetry, fiction, and works in progress by three local authors. Regine Jackson is a Straw Dog Writer’s Guild Fellow who writes poetry and Young Adult fantasy, science
Join us on Tuesday, October 4, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Janet E. Aalfs. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale.
A Crash Course on Using Dialogue. Or, how to avoid “Hi, how are you?” / “I’m fine, thanks. And yourself?” / “Just wonderful.” / “That’s great to hear. Have a nice day.” / “You as well!” with Morgan Talty will be held virtually via Zoom on Saturday, November 19, from 10:30am-12noon. Register HERE. “Don’t ever
By Patricia Lee Lewis The Northampton State Hospital floats in memory and in fact above a small city of people—alive and dead—who, over a span of one hundred years, worked or were incarcerated within its walls. It is a place of nightmare and of dreams, and it is where the characters of The Lost Women Read More
The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program 2023 What: The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts, in partnership with Straw Dog Writers Guild, offers one-week residencies during March for nine emerging writers, three writers each for three weeks (poets, fiction, creative non-fiction writers, screen-or playwrights). Selected writers will receive a Read More
