About the event Join us on Tuesday, January 3, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Rick Paar. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available … 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 (L to R in the photo above). One writer will be named the 2022-23 Fellow in March. The Fellow will receive a $3000 grant from Straw … Read more
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Wednesday, February 9 from 7:00-9:00 pm for an online craft workshop: Creative Approaches to Structuring Your Essay with Nancy McCabe. This interactive presentation will focus on the devices that fiction and poetry offer us in structuring our essays. We’ll explore options from traditional narrative to lyric approaches like braids, … Read more
Join us on Tuesday, January 1 at 7:00 pm for our monthly Writers Night Out/In! Our featured reader is Adin Thayer. Registration is required. Register in advance by clicking HERE. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email (within 24 – 48 hours) containing information about joining the meeting. For security purposes, all attendees must register … Read more
8th Annual Straw Dog Writers Author Showcase on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 6:30pm. Join us for readings from new books by members of Straw Dog Writers Guild: John Sheirer, Nina Dabek. Chris O’Carroll, Julie Wittes Schlack, Suzanne S. Rancourt, Lanette Sweeney, Michael Favala Goldman, Maureen Callahan Smith, Sally Bellerose, Joan Livingston, Mark Luebbers, Tom … Read more
Straw Dog Writers Guild, in Western Massachusetts, has opened up its call for applications for the 2022-23 cycle of the Emerging Writer Fellowship Program which it started in 2020. Applications are open to women and gender-expansive writers of color based in the Western MA counties of Frankin, Hampshire, and Hampden. Applicants must be in the … Read more
Have you always understood writing craft topics, such as plot, setting or tone, to be objective subjects? In his book Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses argues that “what we call craft is in fact nothing more or less than a set of expectations. … These expectations are never neutral.” Reviewer Leni Zumas, author … Read more
Straw Dog Writers Guild presents: Exploring Some Japanese Poetry Forms: Writing Haiku and Tanka with Eileen P. Kennedy on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. Haiku and Tanka are traditional Japanese poetry forms. How do we go about developing our creative thoughts into these highly structured styles of poetry? In this short … Read more
Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns on Sunday, November 7 from 2-4 pm. Our featured reader is Rebecca Hart Olander. To attend, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting. Bio: Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Crab Creek Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and her … Read more
Join us for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Tuesday, November 2, at 7:00 pm. Registration required. Our featured writers are Jason Montgomery and Alexandra Woolner, joint poet laureates of Easthampton. Register in advance for this meeting: Click HERE to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email (within 24 – 48 hours) containing information about … Read more