Sometimes you battle your demons on the page. But monsters and mayhem can transform with pen and paper or keystroke and screen. You have the power to turn your villains into wise counsel or a hero’s dream. Find examples of your poems to read that have turned from woeful to joyful, from fearful to hopeful,
Upon first glance, “Hermit Crabs” (stories or poems or essays that borrow another “shell” or form, also known as the False Document or Trojan Horse poem or Constraint Essay) look like literary play (and they are fun!). But they’re also great tools to break through writers’ block or overcome resistance to topics that feel heavy,
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on September 10, 5-7pm at the beautiful Michelson Gallery on Main Street in Northampton for a special event for members! This is a time to celebrate Straw Dog Writers Guild Members (it’s never too late to become a member) with drinks and appetizers. Our Advisors and community sponsors will be
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild and presenter Jesse Lee Kercheval for our (rescheduled) November craft workshop, “Translation: Reading the World” on Saturday, November 23 from 10:30am – 12:00pm via Zoom. This is a relaxed, open workshop about translating from any language into English for people just curious about translation as well as practicing translators of
2025 Emerging Writer Fellowship Virtual Launch Event Tuesday, August 20, 2024 6 p.m. ET Virtual via Zoom. Register Here Join Nicole Young-Martin (program founder) and Regine Jackson (2022 Fellow) to hear about this year’s Emerging Writer Fellowship Program. Attendees will learn about this year’s application and selection process as well as details about the program
On Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New
When giving feedback about poems, we’re often asked to point out what’s “working” and what’s “not working” and discuss revisions that would make poems “stronger.” But what would it mean to enter a different kind of relationship with our writing—one in which we let the poem itself guide us to what it needs? In this
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 3, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D. Dina Friedman 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
Straw Dog Writers Guild and Edith Wharton’s The Mount present a virtual reading of the 2024 Writers-in-Residency on Saturday, September 14, 4:00-5:15pm. Our 9 writers are: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya, Stevie Billow, Eleanor Fuller, Jason Prokowiew, Mariah Rigg, Whitney Scharer, Mistinguette Smith, Julia Thacker, Jen Alandy Trahan. Register for this free Zoom presentation HERE. To read
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Bratcher Wlodyka 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
