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SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
THE STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD POETRY ANTHOLOGY
We are excited to tell you that Jane Yolen has agreed to be editor and Mary Ann Scognamiglio assistant editor for our new Straw Dog Writers Guild Poetry Anthology. Jane brought the idea to our last Straw Dog retreat in February, and we are all happy to offer this wonderful new opportunity to our members and the writing community of Western MA.
The Anthology is open to all, Straw Dog members submit free, but there will be a $5 submission fee for nonmembers.
Submission period: 9/1/17 through 10/15/17
~5 poems may be submitted per person
~Poems should be Valley related: person, place or event
Straw Dogs will publish a list of authors; all authors will receive a copy of the book as payment. Readings will be held in several locations; with different authors at each reading. Publication is expected in early 2018 with readings to be scheduled in the spring.
to get more info and submission guidelines please visit here:
http://www.strawdogwriters.org/straw-dog-poetry-anthology
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
The Basement, 21 Center Street
(Down the drive, in back of building, next to the
Northampton Police Department)
Northampton, MA
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Featured Reader: Ed Orzechowski
 Ed Orzechowski is a journalist whose features and columns have appeared in The Springfield Republican, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, The Journal Register, Early American Life magazine, and other publications.
Ed is president of Advocacy Network and editor of Advocacy Network News, a newsletter for families and guardians of individuals with developmental disabilities. He is also a Board member of COFAR, a sister organization in eastern Massachusetts. He has written for The Voice, the newsletter of VOR, and has participated in VOR’s annual conferences and visited Congressional offices in Washington, D.C., in support of legislation to protect the rights of the intellectually disabled. A retired high school English teacher and radio newsperson, Ed lives with his wife Gail in Florence, Massachusetts.
In November, Levellers Press of Amherst published his narrative nonfiction book: You’ll Like It Here—The Story of Donald Vitkus, Belchertown Patient #3394.
Doors open at 7 - with an open mike. If you'd like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes.
Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue.
Please join us!
Further information: Beth Filson at wno@strawdogwriters.org
SAVE THE DATE
Featured Reader for October 3rd - Naila Moreira
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Come to our Annual Meeting featuring
a Roundtable Discussion
The Lilly Library in Florence
on
Saturday, Sept. 9th
10:30 - Noon
We have a very short annual meeting every fall. This year, we invite all members and interested writers to join us for the meeting, followed by a Roundtable Discussion. We want to hear your thoughts about how Straw Dog Writers Guild is doing, and what you would like to see in the future.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
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Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
September 10th, 2017!
3:00–5:00 pm.
The Inn at Norton Hill, (across from Elmers)
10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA
Join us!
1st Sunday of each month, 3 - 5 p.m.
The Inn at Norton Hill (across from Elmers) 10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA
Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls!
Here's how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get three minutes.)
Co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild, The Inn at Norton Hill, and Elmer's Store.
A great article about Writers Read HERE
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Save the Date ~ November 12, 2017
Straw Dog Writers Guild is pleased to announce the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award, to be awarded to a poet of national stature whose work illuminates justice, injustice, and resistance.
At the event, to be held on November 12, 2017 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, the honoree (who will be announced in September) will read from original work and discuss writing as resistance.
Abel Meeropol (1903-1986) was a Jewish poet, playwright, and composer. Under the pen name Louis Allan, he wrote the words and music of “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching song which was named the most important song of the twentieth century by Time Magazine, and made famous by Billie Holiday. Abel also wrote the words for “The House I Live In,” which won an Academy Award in 1945, and the libretto for the opera “The Good Soldier Schweik,” based on the Czech anti-war novel by Jaroslav Hasek. Abel’s poems, songs, and plays explore themes of racial and economic injustice, as well as war and peace. He and his wife Anne adopted the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their execution. In memory of Abel and his work to change the world through literature, his family has funded the award from royalties from "Strange Fruit."
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Straw Dog Writers Guild is a volunteer 501(c)3 organization, committed to paying writers for their presentations. Your tax-deductible memberships and donations help support them.
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