On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, Writers Night Out returned as an in-person event with a celebration at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA. Our 10th Writers Night Out Anniversary Fundraisers brought in over $12,000! Thank you to all our donors! We appreciate your generosity! Photo credit to Peter Wilk (top set) & Beth Read More
Magdalena Gomez is a poet, playwright, librettist, activist speaker, podcast producer and host, educator, and performance artist whose latest work is Mi’ja: A Memoir Noir published by Heliotrope Books. Magdalena was named Poet Laureate of Springfield in 2019 and will hold the title until September 2022. She is a Poet Laureate Fellow of the American Read More
Rebecca Hart Olander is a poet, teacher, editor, and publisher whose first book-length collection Uncertain Acrobats was released in November 2021 by CavanKerry Press. She is also the author of the chapbook Dressing the Wounds, published by dancing girl press in 2019. In recent years, Rebecca has received praise and awards for her poetry from Read More
Adin Thayer is the author of The Close World, a collection of poems published by Tebot Bach, which won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award in 2021. In her review, Ellen Dore Watson called The Close World “…a prayer toward co-existence between self and other, past and present, the natural and the made world.” The Read More
by Stephanie Shafran At the Northampton Christopher Heights Assisted Living Residence at Village Hill, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating a Creative Writing Workshop, founded by the local writer Peggy Gillespie. Meeting weekly for 90 minutes, we use prompts and follow the Amherst Writers & Artists Method created by Pat Schneider. The CH writers range Read More
NORTHAMPTON MA. Straw Dog Writers Guild has announced that Regine Jackson of Springfield MA is the recipient of the 2022 Emerging Writer Fellowship. Jackson will receive a $3000 grant to be used for writing-related expenses, access to mentors who can offer assistance with writing needs identified by the Fellow, a professional author website, valued at Read More
Writers Night Out is 10 years old! Help celebrate this literary birthday during the May 3 WHO by participating in our annual fundraiser for Straw Dog Writers Guild Our goal is $25,000 from March 15 through June 7, 2022. In 2020, we raised $22,000 and at the urging of friends and supporters, we increased our Read More
Lynne Bertrand is the author of City of the Uncommon Thief (Dutton Books, Penguin Random House, 2021). This novel for young readers takes place in a walled city of mile-high towers, quarantined from the rest of the world. Each tower is a cloistered home to a guild of craftspeople who specialize in making products of Read More
The selection panel for the Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellowship has announced the 2022-23 shortlist of three writers. They are Vida James, Regine Jackson, and Syki Barbee. One writer will be named the 2022-23 Fellow in March. The Fellow will receive a $3000 grant from Straw Dog Writers Guild to be used for Read More
On January 19th, 2022, Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library co-sponsored the 8th annual Author Showcase. Twelve Straw Dog member/authors gathered on Zoom to read from their recently published books, along with a large, enthusiastic audience. Chris O’Carroll, Nina Dabek, Maureen Callahan Smith, Suzanne Rancourt, John Sheirer, Tom Weiner, Lanette Sweeney, Mark Luebbers, Julie Read More
