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July 2020
Writers Night In – Featured Reader Michael Goldman
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! July 7 @ 7:00pm ONLINE We’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…
Find out more »Optimizing Your Online Presence – For Writers
Register for the free workshop: Register here! Please use the comments section of your registration form if you have specific questions you would like addressed during this workshop. Optimizing Your Online Presence - For Writers with Fungai Tichawangana I recently heard that Jacqueline Sheehan, in speaking about getting published by a traditional media house, once…
Find out more »August 2020
Writers Read/Hilltowns with featured reader Terry S. Johnson
We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on August 2, 2-4 p.m. Here's how it works: To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown. Featured Reader: Terry S. Johnson "In Terry S. Johnson’s PLUNGE, personal history, family history, and public history commingle—always…
Find out more »Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Virginia Macgregor
Writers Night Out In! August @ 7:00pm ONLINE We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday, August on Zoom at 7:00 pm 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…
Find out more »September 2020
Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Ellen Meeropol
Writers Night Out In! September @ 7:00pm ONLINE We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday, September on Zoom at 7:00 pm 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…
Find out more »October 2020
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Cheryl J. Fish
Here’s how it works: We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4, 2-4 p.m. Here's how it works: To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown Cheryl J. Fish is an environmental justice scholar,…
Find out more »Writers Night In – Featured Reader Eileen Kennedy
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! October 6 @ 7:00pm ONLINE We’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…
Find out more »SDWG ANNUAL MEETING
October 15, 2020 at 7pm hosted on Zoom Come discuss ways Straw Dog Writers Guild can further sustain and inspire your writing! Join us in our 10th year anniversary as we gather to elect new board members and officers, and discuss our goals moving forward as an anti-racist organization. Open to all members, join us!…
Find out more »Swirl & Vortex Poetry Workshop with Patrick Donnelly
Patrick 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 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press).…
Find out more »November 2020
Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Jan Freeman
Here’s how it works: We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4, 2-4 p.m. Here’s how it works: To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown Jan Freeman is a…
Find out more »Writers Night In – Featured Reader Stephanie Shafran
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! Thursday, November 5 @ 7:00pm ONLINE *We have changed our usual Tuesday to a Thursday due to the election. We’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…
Find out more »Memoir Workshop: Telling Stories, Finding Meaning
ZOOM SIGN UP/REGISTRATION - Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd--qqDIiHdb_D90gB6efMAVN-hd4CLcr After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. In writing memoir, we are telling stories from our lives, but how do we decide which ones to tell? And why should anyone care? In this workshop, participants will practice…
Find out more »December 2020
GIVING TUESDAY
CELEBRATE THE STRAW DOG WRITERS’ GUILD ON #GIVINGTUESDAY DECEMBER 1 2020 may be a year we’d like to forget, but let’s end it with a celebration of giving to organizations that make a difference. Straw Dog is again participating in Giving Tuesday. We’re already well on our way to our $10,000 goal with a generous…
Find out more »Wine & Chocolate with Straw Dog Founders
Join Jacqueline Sheehan, Patricia Lee Lewis, and Ellen Meeropol for a lively discussion about Straw Dog Writers Guild, and the many accomplishments over the past 10 years. Writers in Western Mass know how to support each other. We know how to listen when the writing life is hard and cheer like crazy when we have…
Find out more »Writers Night In – Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! Thursday, Dec 1, 2020 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm 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…
Find out more »Artist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out Workshop
Workshop for all genres: Artist as Witness: the upsides down and the insides out with Suzanne S. Rancourt Visual writing prompts, viewed literally from various points of view, strengthens character development, dialogue, and the individual writer, by learning how to see as is. We learn how to witness. Exploring what creates tension and tone in…
Find out more »Writers Read/Hilltowns – two-hour open-mic extravaganza
Here’s how it works: We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on December 6, 2-4 p.m. Here’s how it works:To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com. You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. Hosted by Jane Roy Brown
Find out more »January 2021
Writers Read/Hilltowns on Zoom – Featured Reader Ellen Meeropol
Writers Read will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on January 3rd, 2-4 p.m. Featured Reader – Ellen Meeropol Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest. Recent essay and short story publications include Solstice, Lilith, Ms. Magazine, Guernica, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, and The Writers Chronicle. Her work has…
Find out more »Writers Night In – Featured Reader Floyd Cheung
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Writers Night Out In! Thursday, Jan 5, 2021 @ 7:00pm ONLINE. We’re live and online! Join us Tuesday on Zoom at 7:00 pm 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…
Find out more »How to Speak in Public with Nicole M. Young
Sunday, January 10, 2-4 p.m. on Zoom. Pre-registration required. There is a cap of 15 participants, so sign up early. There is a limited number of attendees (15) and then there will be a waiting list. To Register please send your First and Last Name, and zip code in an email to strawdogreg@gmail.com You will receive a…
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