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November 2019
Poetry Critique Meet-Up – Registration now Open for Nov & Dec 2019
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Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader: Alexis Johnson
Alexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years. Her undergraduate degree in in languages and linguistics. Her double masters is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Spanish. Before that she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years. Her first book,Playing With A Full Deck, is a…
Find out more »Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Karen Skolfield
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…
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Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Libby Maxey
Libby Maxey, of Conway, MA, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama; she also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice, and her own poems have appeared in Crannóg, Kestrel, Naugatuck River Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Emrys and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Kairos, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook…
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6th Annual Author Showcase
Calling New Authors! Straw Dog Writers Guild is planning their Sixth Annual Author Showcase for new authors. Any Straw Dog member with a new book published in the last two years is invited to read. We will hold the event on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at Forbes Library. (Time TBD). Priority will be given to…
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