Writers Night Out in June with Ellen Meeropol

Schedule

Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm

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Location

Forbes Library | Northampton, MA

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Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ellen Meeropol, 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 showcases our Featured Reader.
Hosted by Jacqueline Sheehan, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.
Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, Sometimes an Island, The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and story publications include Ms. Magazine, Lilith, The Writer Magazine, The Boston Globe, Solstice Magazine, and Guernica. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize, longlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads. Ellen lives in western Massachusetts, where she is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and on the planning committee for the WriteAngles Writers Conference.
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Forbes Library, 20 West St,Northampton,MA,United States

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