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
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Cherryl Jensen 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 half
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Saturday, June 15 from 1:00-2:30pm on Zoom with J. Scott Coatsworth as he shares his experience as an indie author. In this craft workshop he will present some of the tips and tricks he has learned in how to promote ones work and field questions. Scott stares, “I recently
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 4, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jessica Jopp 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 half
“Summer lovin’ happened so fast,” sang the Firefly. “And so the drama ensues,” teased Puck. Come, sit for a spell. Drink the fairies’ sweet wine, let the tales spin and tangle, and share poems of dream lovers, night weavers, fantastical moments, and stands for the pursuit of freedom and happiness. And if you don’t have
