Join Straw Dog Writers Guild with presenter Adrie Rose on Sunday, February 11 via zoom from 3-5pm for this craft workshop. We will come together to work on pulling together poems into a chapbook collection. We’ll talk about what chapbooks are (and are not) and some strategies for arranging the poems in them. Participants are
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for our annual Author Showcase on January 20th, 4-5:30 on Zoom. Register for this event HERE. Our readers with new books in 2023 will be: Adrie Rose Anne Pinkerton Cherryl Jensen Deb Gorlin Dina Friedman Howie Faerstein Joan Livingston John Sheirer Jordan Hall Lindsay Rockwell Suzanne Rancourt Tzivia Gover
Thank you to all the accomplished writers for applying for the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence program at The Mount. The Selection Committee is pleased to announce the residents: Camila Sanmiguel Anaya Eleanor Fuller Jason Prokowiew Jenn Alandy Trahan Julia Thacker Mariah Rigg Mistinguette Smith Stevie Billow Whitney Scharer 2024 Residents’ Biographies Camila Sanmiguel Read More
Join us on Tuesday February 6, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Alexis Johnson at Forbes Library. In addition to reading from Playing With A Full Deck, she’ll also read from her new books Dancing with Words and I Wanted to Write a Book but Forgot What I Wanted to Say. No registration
WNO CANCELLED! Due to inclement weather SDWG is cancelling Writers Night Out for this evening. Stay home. Stay safe. We will reschedule Cherryl Jensen for another month. Cherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in
Join Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild on Thursday, January 18, 6:45-7:45pm for A Writer’s Night with featured reader Celia Jeffries. Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert—winner of the May Sarton award— has had her work published in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Puerto del Sol, as
Please join us for our Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 19 at 4pm. Meet the Board of Directors and Officers. Learn about current and future projects and how you can be involved. Register for our Annual Meeting HERE.
Call to SDWG members who published a book in 2023… Submit your name for the drawing of readers at the 10th Annual Author Showcase: A Celebration of Members’ Books. Mark your calendars: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., on Zoom Straw Dog Writers Guild invites Straw Dog Writers Guild members with a book
Grab your comfy blanket and join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for a “Comfort Food” Poetry Share on Saturday, January 20th from 1:30-3pm. January’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that are carbohydrate rich, warming, uplifting, full of compassion and understanding, and/or consoling. (And you
The Selection Committee of the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence is pleased to announce 27 finalists from emerging writers across the United States and other countries around the globe. We were thrilled with the depth of talent, diversity, and sheer writing tenacity of the applicants–thank you for sharing your work. Nine writers will be Read More
