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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Luke Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nWriters Night Out In! \nJune 2 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nPlease join us!  \n\nLuke Salisbury is the author of the cult classic The Answer Is Baseball\, and four works of fiction\, No Common War\, called “one of the best war novels in decades” by Forword Reviews\, The Cleveland Indian\, nominated for a Casey Award\, Blue Eden\, and Hollywood & Sunset\, which was selected as Book of the Year (Fiction 2006) by Online Review of Books & Current Affairs\, and won Best Historical Fiction 2006 from USABookNews.  He has taught Shakespeare at Bunker Hill Community College and is on the board of the Actors Shakespeare Project. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-luke-salisbury
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night In! (online)- Featured Reader Lori Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out In! \nMarch 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE \nWe’re live and online! Join us Tuesday May 5th on Zoom at 7:00pm for Writers Night In. RSVP wno@strawdogwriters.org to receive the Zoom link to the event. Only those who RSVP will be able to attend. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. General donations greatly appreciated for this event at http://strawdogwriters.org/fund-drive \n\nFeatured Reader: Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter\, Salmon Poetry\, 2013\, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak\, Salmon Poetry\, 2016 and Keeping Planes in the Air\, Salmon 2020. Two chapbooks\, Inner Sky and typing with e.e. cummings\, are from Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and teaches in the Lesley University M.F.A. program. She edits Naugatuck River Review\, a journal of narrative poetry and Wordpeace.co\, an online journal dedicated to social justice. She lives and writes in Westfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-lori-desrosiers
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Susanne Dunlap
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n \nSusanne Dunlap is the author of nine historical novels for adults and teens. Her young adult historical novel\, The Musician’s Daughter\, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year. It was also nominated for the Missouri Gateway Readers Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her YA novel In the Shadow of the Lamp was an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award nominee\, and her adult historical novel\, Listen to the Wind was a quarterfinalist for the BookLife prize and a Distinguished Favorite in the NY Big Book Awards. \nSusanne lives and writes in Northampton\, MA\, teaches writing workshops locally and also works as an editor and book coach. With a BA and MA from Smith College and a PhD in music history from Yale University\, Susanne brings a deep love of learning and teaching to all her literary endeavors.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-susanne-dunlap
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Julia McKenzie Munemo
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n\n2016 Julia Munemo\nJulia McKenzie Munemo went to Bard College before earning a master’s in education at Harvard. After building a career as a freelance writer\, she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine.  \nMunemo won the Bridging the Gap Competition for nonfiction at the Slice Literary Writers’ Conference in 2016; was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Oakley Center for Humanities; and was selected as the nonfiction reader for the Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reunion in 2017 and as the Stonecoast alumni teaching assistant in 2018. She currently works as the interim director of the Williams College Writing Workshops and as a writer for the Williams College Magazine. She teaches courses in creative nonfiction. \nThe Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race\, Love\, and Legacy is her first book. She lives in Williamstown\, Ma. with her husband and sons. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-5
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jovonna Van Pelt
DESCRIPTION:Jovonna Van Pelt considered a college degree for a career in Journalism but was advised that she wasn’t tough enough; it may even have been true. Instead\, she earned her MA degree in Ethics. Through the years\, her writing has served colleagues\, non-profits\, corporations\, and puppeteers. Jo started writing for herself in 2014 and has since been a finalist in the Poet’s Seat competition\, a frequent contributor to poetry open mics and area word fests\, and a selected poet in the SDWG anthology Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen. Unrelated Questions is her first published volume of poetry. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. \nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jovonna-van-pelt
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Karen Skolfield
DESCRIPTION:Karen Skolfield’s book Battle Dress (W. W. Norton\, 2019) won the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry\, and she is the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-karen-skolfield
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary A Koncel
DESCRIPTION:Mary A. Koncel has published three books of prose poetry – Closer to Day (Quale Press)\, You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press)\, and The Last Blonde (Hedgerow Books). She was a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Denver Review\, Barrow Street\, The Prose Poem: An International Journal\, and No Boundaries:Prose Poems by 25 American Poets. Mary is a staff member with the American Wild Horse Campaign.  She lives in Worthington\, MA with her husband and many animals.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-a-koncel
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Andrea Hairston
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Hairston is a playwright and novelist. She is author of Will Do Magic For Small Change\, a finalist for the Mythopoeic\, Lambda\, and Tiptree Awards\, a Massachusetts Must Read\, and a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her other novels include: Redwood and Wildfire\, winner of the Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards\, and Mindscape\, winner of the Carl Brandon Award. Lonely Stardust\, a collection of essays and plays\, was published by Aqueduct press. Her play\, Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre\, appears in Geek Theater — 15 Plays by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. “Griots of the Galaxy\,” a short story\, appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future. A novelette\, “Saltwater Railroad\,” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. Her next novel\, Master of Poisons\, will be published by Tor/Macmillan in 2020. In her spare time\, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She bikes at night year round\, meeting bears\, multi-legged creatures of light and breath\, and the occasional shooting star.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-andrea-hairston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Trish Crapo
DESCRIPTION:Trish Crapo – Poet\, writer\, collage artist\, and photographer Trish Crapo was educated at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Author of the recently republished chapbookWalk through Paradise Backwards from Slate Roof Press (2004 and 2018)\, she has had work featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column\, “American Life in Poetry\,” and in Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women (2002).\n\nShe is a member of Exploded View\, a dynamic group of women poets and artists working together to create original exhibitions and performance. Crapo lives on an organic farm in Leyden\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-trish-crapo
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader James Arthur
DESCRIPTION:Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The New York Review of Books\, The American Poetry Review\, The New Republic\, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship\, a Hodder Fellowship\, a Stegner Fellowship\, a Discovery/The Nation Prize\, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland\, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College\, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore\, where he teaches at in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-james-arthur
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joan Livingston
DESCRIPTION:Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers. The first two books in her Isabel Long mystery series are Chasing the Case and Redneck’s Revenge (Crooked Cat Books). Checking the Traps has a 2019 release. \nHer other books include The Sweet Spot and Peace\, Love & You Know What. A journalist for over thirty years\, she started as a hilltown reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Most recently she was managing editor of The Taos News. After over a decade in New Mexico\, she returned to rural Western Mass.\, which is the setting for much of her fiction\, including the Isabel Long series. \nFor more\, visit www.joanlivingston.net. Follow her on Twitter @joanlivingston.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-joan-livingston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Amy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared inSilkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,”2018\, have been published through human Error Press. “Silence is Premeditated” is forthcoming in 2019. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Christian McEwen
DESCRIPTION:July 7 Writers Read/Hilltowns \nChristian McEwen is a freelance writer\, workshop leader\, and cultural activist\, originally from the UK. She is the author of several books\, including World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down\, now in its sixth printing. Her new book\, Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money\, appeared in April 2019. Get more information at www.christianmcewen.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-christian-mcewen
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Howard Faerstein
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader – Howie Faerstein \nHoward Faerstein’s first book of poetry\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, was published in 2013 by Press 53. A second collection\, Googootz\, and Other Poems came out in September 2018. His work can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review\, Nimrod\, CutThroat\, Off the Coast\, Rattle\, upstreet\, Mudfish and on-line in Gris-Gris\, Peacock Journal\, and Connotation. \nConsidering himself an “adjunct emeritus\,” he is presently volunteering as a citizenship mentor at the Center for New Americans and is Associate Poetry Editor of CutThroat\, A Journal of theArts. After living in Brooklyn for fifty years\, he now lives in Florence\, Massachusetts. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-howard-faerstein
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Patrick Donnelly
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader Patrick Donnelly  \n \nPATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry\, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books\, 2019)\, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books\, 2017)\, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, andThe Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place\, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts. Donnelly’s awards include the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature\, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7927
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Charlie Bondhus
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader Charlie Bondhus \n \nCharlie Bondhus is the author of All the Heat We Could Carry\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his Ph.D. in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. He is an associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ).  More at: http://charliebondhus.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-charlie-bondhus
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Marion VanArsdell
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader – Marion VanArsdell is an Early Childhood Special Educator and writer who taught in the Integrated Preschools in Northampton. She designed an intensive full-day program for children on the Autism Spectrum.  \n “I Teached Him to Talk”: Stories of Children with Autism is a collection of stories describing the progress children made in that model program. The book is a resource for families and teachers as they help children move from isolation to interaction. \nMarion is now a Special Education consultant and workshop presenter. She continues to write creative non-fiction and work on a historical fiction manuscript about the Underground Railroad.  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-marion-vanarsdell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n FEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\nAmy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,” 2018\, have been published through Human Error Press. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out /Open Mic - Featured Reader: Debra Immergut
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nThe Basement\, 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA\nOPEN MIC – 2nd Tuesdays 7-9pm\nHosts Rick Paar & Jacqueline Sheehan \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n Featured Reader – Debra Immergut\nDebra Jo Immergut is the author of The Captives\, a novel published in the US by Ecco/HarperCollins (2018) and in over a dozen other countries. She is also the author of Private Property\, a short-story collection from Random House (1992). She is a MacDowell and Michener fellow and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has worked as a journalist and editor and has taught writing in libraries\, military bases\, and prisons. Her literary work has been published in American Short Fiction\, Narrative\, and the Russian-language journal Foreign Literature. Her journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Boston Globe\, New York magazine\, and other places.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-open-mic-featured-reader-debra-immergut
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Michael A. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance \nto read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n \nMichael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno_ponsor
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Cai Emmons
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \nCai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son and The Stylist and\, most recently\, Weather Woman\, forthcoming in October 2018\, about a meteorologist who discovers she has the power to change the weather. Novelist Caroline Leavitt says of Weather Woman\, “I love this novel so much I want to marry it.” Formerly a playwright and screenwriter\, Cai’s short work has appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly\, Narrative\, and Arts and Culture\, among others. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-cai-emmons
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jendi Reiter
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, 2016)\, the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press\, forthcoming 2018)\, and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree\, 2015). Awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Wag’s Revue Poetry Prize\, the Bayou Magazine Editor’s Prize in Fiction\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. Reiter is the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers. For literary news\, readings\, and reviews\, visit JendiReiter.com and follow @JendiReiter on Twitter.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno-jendi
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com  \n \n  \nEmily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six mystery and psychological suspense novels\, and one young adult psychological suspense novel\, The Leaf Reader. Titles of her adult novels include: The Broken Teaglass\, a New York Times Notable Crime Book in 2009\, The Evening Spider\, What Strange Creatures\, In Search of Rose Notes \, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Mysteries of 2011\, Miss Me When I’m Gone\, and her latest book\, The Last Thing I Told You\, which released in July 2018 and was one of PureWow’s Best Beach Reads of the summer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Shelburne Falls\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-emily-arsenault
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeatured Reader: Mary Clare Powell \nMary Clare Powell is a lifelong teacher\, retired professor at Lesley University\, and poet.  Her newest poetry book is Everyday Ecstasy\, a collection about aging (which we are all doing).  Growing older and its losses are here\, but so is whimsy\, joy\, and gratitude–pondering a brother’s death\, swimming in the river\, conversing with a GPS\, hanging up laundry.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180703T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nJuly 3\, 2018\n7-9pm \nThe Basement\n21 Center Street\nNorthampton\, MA \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180605T150000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joyce Hayden
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out – June 5 2018 \n \n  \nFeatured Writer: Joyce Hayden \nJoyce Hayden left her teaching position in the English Department at Westfield State University three years ago to pursue travel\, writing\, and painting. Since then she’s been across the US a couple times\, as well as France and Italy. She has published a chapbook of poems\,  \nLost Handprint with Dandelion Review\, held her first one-woman art exhibit at Sean-Christopher Gallery in Columbus\, OH\, and is now seeking a publisher for her completed memoir\, The Out of Body Girl. She writes a weekly Must Reads column at ROAR- Literature\, and Revolution for Feminist People. \n \nSee more of her writing and art on her website: Joycehayden.com \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \nFurther information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-joyce-hayden
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Kathy Ford
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Kathy Ford grew up in Rochester\, New York\, graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1980 with a major in design theory\, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in architecture. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1985 and has been practicing architecture in New York and Massachusetts for the past thirty years. \nHer life as a quilter began shortly after becoming a mother in 1991.\nKathy lives with her two dogs in the hilltowns of western Massachusetts.\nHer body of work can be seen at kathyford.net \n \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-kathy-ford
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Readers Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
DESCRIPTION:John D. Bidwell is consulting editor of Monique and the Mango Rains\, the critically esteemed book authored by his wife Kris Holloway that chronicles their time in Peace Corps with the Malian midwife Monique Dembele. He is the Executive Director of the United Way of Hampshire County\, and a branding and marketing consultant\, frequent presenter\, and has lectured and taught at the University of Michigan\, University of Massachusetts\, Smith College\, and Marlboro College. John has his BA from McGill University. \n  \n  \n \nKris Holloway is author of the critically acclaimed Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali\, which has been called “a respectful\, unsentimental portrait (and) a poignant and powerful book.” (Kirkus\, Starred Review). She has delivered hundreds of presentations\, and the book remains a favorite “common read” and is used in 150+ college and university courses. Kris is President of CISabroad\, a leading education abroad organization responsible that has sent thousands of students to study and intern abroad worldwide. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. \n  \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-readers-kris-holloway-john-bidwell
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Tzivia Gover
DESCRIPTION:Tzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com.  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-tzivia-gover
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Ruth Lehrer
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out with Featured Reader Ruth Lehrer \nFebruary 6\, 2018 \n7-9pm \nRuth Lehrer is a writer and sign language interpreter living in western Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in journals such as Lilith\, Jubilat\, and Trivia: Voices of Feminism. Her poetry chapbook\, TIGER LAUGHS WHEN YOU PUSH\, is available from Headmistress Press. Her debut young adult novel\, BEING FISHKILL (Candlewick Press\, 2017) is described by Entertainment Weekly as\, “…the year’s most heartwarming\, heartbreaking teen novel.” Ruth can be found at ruthlehrer.com  \n \n\nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-featured-reader-ruth-lehrer
LOCATION:The Basement
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