PUBLIC NOTICE: Straw Dog Writers Guild Annual Meeting Thursday, November 4, 7:00 – 8:00pm. Agenda: Welcome and accomplishments Vote in Board of Directors SDWG Programs and Committees A Path Forward Website performance for this past year Hear from the Membership SDWG members who are interested in participating in the Annual Meeting, please email admin@strawdogwriters.org to
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Writing Residency Applications Due November 1, 2021
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home is collaborating with Straw Dog Writers Guild to offer a unique residency experience for nine emerging writers. Residencies will be for one week and include lodging at Seven Hills Inn in Lenox, a workspace at The Mount, breakfast, lunch, and a $500 stipend. The residencies run weekly from March 6 –
Craft in the Real World Book Discussion
Have you always understood writing craft topics, such as plot, setting or tone, to be objective subjects? In his book Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses argues that “what we call craft is in fact nothing more or less than a set of expectations. … These expectations are never neutral.” Reviewer Leni Zumas, author
Writers Read Hilltowns November
Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday, November 7 from 2-4pm. Our featured reader is Rebecca Hart Olander. To attend, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. Bio: Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Crab Creek Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and
Writers Night Out/In November
Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday, November 2, 7:00pm. Registration required. Our featured writers are Jason Montgomery and Alexandra Woolner, joint poet laureates of Easthampton. Register in advance for this meeting: Click HERE to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email (within 24 – 48 hours) containing information about
Exploring Some Japanese Poetry Forms: Writing Haiku and Tanka
Straw Dog Writers Guild presents: Exploring Some Japanese Poetry Forms: Writing Haiku and Tanka with Eileen P. Kennedy on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 from 6:30 – 8:00pm. Haiku and Tanka are traditional Japanese poetry forms. How do we go about developing our creative thoughts into these highly structured styles of poetry? In this short workshop,
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: María Luisa Arroyo
Boricua poet and feminist intersectional educator María Luisa Arroyo’s poetry collections include Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras (Bilingual Press 2008), and the chapbooks Flight (2016) and Destierro Means More than Exile (2018). Her poems and essays have been published in a number of journals and magazines, and among her many awards, she was named Springfield’s Inaugural Read More
Writers Read Hilltowns October 2021
Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday, October 3 from 2-4pm. Our featured reader is Michael Favala Goldman. To attend, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. Bio: Michael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is a poet, jazz clarinetist and widely-published translator of Danish literature. Among his sixteen translated
Writers Night Out/In October
Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday, October 5, 7:00pm. Registration required. Register HERE. Our featured writer is María Luisa Arroyo. Changes to registration have been made for security purposes. You will now receive your link after your registration has been approved within 24 to 48 hours. On the day of the
Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Lanette Sweeney
Lanette Sweeney’s first poetry collection, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing A Child to Addiction, has just been released by Finishing Line Press. The book is structured in accordance with the stages of grief, and includes twenty poems by Sweeney’s late son, who died of an overdose in 2016. Sweeney began Read More