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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON | WriteAngles: A Straw Dog Writers Guild Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n\nVision 2024\n\n\n\n\nIn 2022 the WriteAngles, Inc Board decided to disband and transfer the conference to Straw Dog Writers Guild. A group of volunteers drawn from over a dozen regional literary organizations has been meeting since July 2022 to brainstorm ideas and plan a writers’ gathering that is both old and new.\nSome elements of the old conference will be carried over:\n\nThe small size (100-150 participants).\nA combination of workshops and panel discussions.\nA strong emphasis on celebrating western Massachusetts writers and writing organizations\nOpportunities for networking.\nAgent meetings and a literary fair.\n\nSome elements of the 2024 conference will be new:\n\nThe Daisy Matthias Scholarship will be awarded annually to a graduating high school senior pursuing creative writing.\nThe Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award will be presented to the keynote speaker.\nSponsorship and partnerships with local arts and businesses will help keep the conference affordable and pay presenters for their work.\n\nThe organizers hope to expand the reach of the conference to the far corners of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties. We hope to attract writers who are curious and committed; who are interested in either/both classic and hybrid forms; who love language and are open to all the ways it can inspire and teach.\nWe are committed to writing that illuminates our broken world, that strives to make change, that seeks to break our hearts and stitch them back together.\nWe are committed to continuing the legacy of being a conference by writers, for writers.\n\n\n
URL:https://literaryma.com/events/in-person-writeangles-a-straw-dog-writers-guild-conference-2024/
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