My Inner Critic and I… . Guest Blogger: Linda M. Rowland-Buckley . I love to sit at my desk and watch words fall onto the page and into the mouths of my characters. The dialog between them grows and their conversations expand until I have a complete story. Then the questions arrive: What do I Read More
Straw Dog Writers Guild
March 1, 2014
An Interview with Michael White Guest Blogger: Sarah Feldman, Straw Dog Literary Correspondent . Michael White is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. A two-time finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, he has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the National Magazine Award. His novel, A Brother’s Blood, was a New York Read More
February 1, 2014
A Note from Missy Wick, Blog Editor . For people like me – a digital immigrant, born and raised in the land of paper, white out pencils, and Correcto type – the migration to the Internet has been both daunting and thrilling. In truth, I do not miss all the old country ways. I Read More
January 1, 2014
An Interview with Naila Moreira Guest Blogger: Sarah Feldman, Straw Dog Literary Correspondent Naila Moreira is a writer and journalist living in western Massachusetts. Her journalism and nature essays have been published in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, The Common Online, Science News, and other venues. She works at Smith College as a writing Read More
December 1, 2013
Who Knew an Annual Meeting Could Be So Magical? Guest Blogger: Patricia lee Lewis . What I loved most about the Straw Dog Members party was the way each person walking through the front door of Jacqueline Sheehan’s wonderful home discovered that what seemed, from the outside, to be a tiny, fairytale farmhouse quickly became the Marvelous Expanding House Read More
November 1, 2013
30 Poems in November! Guest Blogger: Becky Jones as I first learned of what was originally called “30 Poems in 30 Days” from an e-mail invitation in the early fall of 2009. It came from then-Poet Laureate of Northampton, Lesléa Newman, who explained the project she envisioned: one poem a day for a month, with Read More
Guest Blogger: Ellen Meeropol
Writing on the Fault Lines I believe that literature can contribute hugely to positive social change. That stories and poems and essays and theater can illuminate injustice, open minds, and inspire us all to work to transform in our world. My favorite writers—like Kamila Shamsie and Paule Marshall, Rosellen Brown and Sadie Jones—position their Read More
September 9, 2013
An Interview with Jean Zimmer Guest Blogger Sarah Feldman as Straw Dog Newsletter caught up with Jean Zimmer during a family camping trip to Cape Cod. Guest blogger Sarah Feldman interviewed her about her upcoming Craft Workshop, Grammar for Dummies and/or Writers. as Sarah: I am interested in the wide variety of forms in which Read More
August 15, 2013
Does Spelling Count? It’s pretty instructive for a freelance writer to sit on the other side of the table – the side that receives the manuscript submissions. I’ve had a chance to do this as a reader for the Pushcart Prize, as a reader for a literary press, and as a judge of a national Read More
July 18, 2013
Recipe for Succeeding in the Publishing World Ingredients: Fistfuls of Talent Luck Desire Craftwork Perseverance as Mix everything together, adding an extra cup of perseverance. Want a taste? Sample this tidbit from Oprah Magazine’s Essential Beach Reads, featuring our very own Straw Dog founding member, Linda McCullough Moore: as From the Oprah editor: “I was Read More