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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out!
DESCRIPTION:FEATURED READER: INFO COMING SOON! \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-out-4
LOCATION:The Basement
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Richard Wayne Horton has published in Southern Pacific Review\, Meat For Tea\, Lonesome October\, Aphotic Realm\, Danse Macabre Online\, and others. He was nominated for a Pushcart. His first book of flash fiction\, Sticks & Bones\, is available from Meat For Tea Press. He is working on a second book of flash fiction\, A Dream Of Vanished Streets set in Texas in the early 50s. Precise language ties together scenes that are gritty\, beautiful and at times disturbing. The characters seem real\, and the settings close up and bright. Some RWH stories have appeared in horror mags but they are not horror. Instead of being predictable formula fodder for buzzed-out minds\, they are rich\, strong-boned and speculative\, with dream sequences that engage a real emotional second world. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. \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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-3
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:FEATURED READER – \nGail Thomas has published three books of poetry\, Waving Back\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley\, and Finding the Bear.  Published in 2105\, Waving Back was awarded Honorable Mention by the New England Book Festival and includes poems that won the James Hearst Prize and the Pat Schneider Prize. \nHer work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, and she was awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the drowning of towns and villages in Western Massachusetts in the 1930’s to provide drinking water for Boston has been used as a text in college courses.  As one of the original teaching artists for the state’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Gail has collaborated with musicians\, dancers\, and storytellers across the state.  She is a frequent presenter at conferences and a featured reader at libraries\, bookstores\, cafes\, and schools. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. \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! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-2
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SUMMARY:WRITERS NIGHT OUT
DESCRIPTION:Oct. 3rd\, 2017 – 7-9pm \nFeatured Reader: Naila Moreira\nI am a writer\, journalist\, and naturalist living in western Massachusetts. My published work includes science journalism\, nature writing\, and poetry. I also write for children.\nI teach in the Jacobson Writing Center at Smith College and am a lecturer in the English department. During the summer\, I have taught science writing to high school girls in Smith’s Summer Science and Engineering Program. \nI am serving as the Writer-in-Residence at the Northampton Forbes Public Library for 2015-2018. You can read brief interviews with me here and here.\nI received my Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of Michigan.\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-out
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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