Call for Applications: Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellowship 2022-2023

Amina Jordan-Mendez

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

Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop Launches International Writing Across Borders Program

Uchenna Awoke

This month, Western MA arts organization, Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, will launch a new program: The Writing Across Borders reading series, which seeks to promote dialogue between writers across cultures and continents by spotlighting, each fall, a talented emerging writer living in another part of the world. The program hopes to offer the featured writer … Read more