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SUMMARY:Author Showcase at Word Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild for our 9-1/2th Annual Author Showcase at Word Fest* on April 2\, 2023 1:00-2:00pm at the Gateway City Arts\, 92 Race Street\, Holyoke\, MA. Featured authors are: Lindsay Rockwell\, D. Dina Friedman\, Michael Favala Goldman. Kelsey Socha. Grant Carrington\, and Ellen Meeropol. \n* The Entire Word Fest event runs from 10-5. See schedule HERE. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLindsay Rockwell is poet-in-residence for the Episcopal Church of Connecticut and hosts their Poetry and Social Justice Dialogue series. She’s published\, or is forthcoming in\, CALYX\, Gargoyle\, River Heron Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, among others. Her collection GHOST FIRES is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Press\, spring/summer ’23. She’s received writing fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Straw Dog Writers Guild/Edith Wharton The Mount. Lindsay holds a Master of Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and is an oncologist. \nD. Dina Friedman has published in many literary journals and received two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two YA novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux)\, and one book of poetry\, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press). Her short story collection\, Immigrants\, will be published by Creators Press in Fall 2023. To learn more about Dina\, visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com and subscribe to her blog on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at ddinafriedman.substack.com. \nMichael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is an award-winning poet\, jazz clarinetist\, and translator of Danish literature. Michael’s five books of original poetry include Small Sovereign\, which took first place at the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. He has been running poetry critique groups since 2018. MORE \n  \nKelsey Socha once wrote and staged a performance piece about lobsters before subsequently quitting theatre to become a librarian. She is originally from Kalamazoo\, Michigan\, but now lives in western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats. \n  \n  \nGrant Carrington is the author of 4 sci fi books from Brief Candle Press of Beaverton\, Ore.\, 2 CDs of original songs\, 5 plays given full productions\, and 40-50 published stories\, mostly sci fi (one of which was a Nebula finalist). Member Clarion 68-69\, Tulane 71. Associate Editor Amazing/Fantastic 1972-74\, Contributing Editor Eternity 1977-79. Computer programmer for Goddard Space Flight Center\, the US Navy\, University of Florida\, Savannah River Ecology Lab\, Westinghouse\, and the US Treasury Department. BA (NYU) and MA (Univ. of Fla.) in mathematics. \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novels The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest\, and guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and short story publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Guernica\, and The Boston Globe. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Prize\, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and a Group Reads selection of the Women’s National Book Association. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and coordinator of the revived WriteAngles Writers Conference.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/author-showcase-at-word-fest
LOCATION:Gateway City Arts\, 92-114 Race Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award
DESCRIPTION:ABEL MEEROPOL SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITING AWARD\nWe only have a few tickets left. \nSign up for tickets here!\nStraw Dog Writers Guild will present the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award to poet Patricia Smith at a public event on November 12\, 2017\, 3:30 pm\, at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. \nAbel Meeropol (1903-1986) was a progressive Jewish poet\, playwright and composer writing under the pen name Lewis Allan. He is best known for his iconic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit\,” made famous by Billie Holiday and named the Best Song of the Century by Time Magazine in 1999. He and his wife Anne adopted the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg\, Robert and Michael\, after the executions of their parents. Abel moved to Western Massachusetts in 1980. \nAward recipient Patricia Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a National Endowment for the Arts recipient\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets and Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist. At the November 12 award ceremony\, local singer/songwriter Pamela Means will perform “Strange Fruit” and Abel’s son Robert Meeropol will present the award. Patricia Smith will read from her work and talk about the ways literature can explore important social issues and bring us together as a community. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nACLU of Massachusetts \nARISE for Social Justice \nCenter for New Americans \nClick Workspace \nDavid Ruggles Center for History & Education \nGateway City Arts \nGreen Fire Press \nHoward Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University \nHuman Error Publishing (Great Falls Word Festival) \nJoel Katz & the Strange Fruit film \nThe Literacy Project \nMA Committee Against the Death Penalty\, Hampden Co. chapter \nNational Lawyers Guild – Massachusetts Chapter \nNorthamptonStateHospital.org \nPatchwork Farm Writers Retreat \nPioneer Valley Workers Center \nPoetry Center at Smith College \nRosenberg Fund for Children \nSafe Passage \nSojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership \nVoices from Inside \nWarren J. Plaut Charitable Trust \nW.E.B. DuBois Center\, University of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nWhite Square Books \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Means will be performing Strange Fruit at the event on November 12th.\n\n\n\nRoundtable discussions are planned for December 9 to continue the conversation about social justice and the arts. These programs are co-sponsored by two dozen local organizations and are supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council. \nFor more information about the program and tickets (free but required)\, visit strawdogwriters.org or contact Straw Dog Writers Guild Administrative Director Laura Stone at 413.768.0977 or admin@strawdogwriters.org.
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LOCATION:Gateway City Arts\, 92-114 Race Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040
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