On Thursday, April 18, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Christopher Boucher. Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (2011), Golden Delicious (2016) and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Finalist), all out from Melville House.
You are invited to join us for a celebration of artists and writers from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. We are excited to announce the launch of The Viking Runestone, Spring 2024 Volume 6 at Forbes Library, Thursday, April 11 at 6:30pm in the Coolidge Room. Straw Dog Writers Guild is proud to collaborate
Why are March Hares mad? To ponder this and other questions about life and Spring, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. This March Madness challenge we toast to our frisky, cabin-fever, crazed, momentary-lapses-of-reason, mad-world poems. (And you don’t have any,
Join us on Tuesday April 2, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Diana Whitney at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening
Join us on Tuesday March 5, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening
Susan Sensemann will lead a 2 hour writing workshop at A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton in conjunction with a five-person exhibition “Physiotasmagorical” which investigates corporeal secrets that reside at the juncture of the clinical and the imaginary in fantastic conjurings of our internal selves. We will begin with a discussion of the “felt sense”
On Thursday, March 21, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Richard Michelson. RICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press), Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois), Tap
Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Cherryl Jensen, Thursday, February 15, 2024, 6:45 – 7:30pm. Cherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received
Come create community on second Sundays of every month 6-8pm EST with a virtual open mic on zoom. Please contact Lindsay Rockwell for zoom link if interested: emonrock@mac.com Format Focus: EVERYONE READS! Read a 3-minute piece Co-create a reading and listening experience with your fellow writers that is generous, dynamic and heart-felt Brief positive responses
Registration is now open for WriteAngles Writers Conference, a project of Straw Dog Writers Guild. The one-day conference will be held on April 6, 2024, at the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley Street in Northampton. The keynote address will be given by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, poet, essayist, and author of the award-winning Read More
