Hosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Northampton Center for the Arts, Short Prose Meet-up via Zoom with Celia Jeffries is a chance for writers to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their short prose piece (800 words or fewer) by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in your prose, and what may need revision. Contribute to the discussion with other writers, and experience the magic that can happen with the written word in a supportive group.

Cost: by donation. Suggested sliding scale $25-40. No one turned away for lack of funds. Limited to five participants. Register early.  Learn more and register at strawdogwriters.org/short-prose-meet-up.

Scudder Parker, author of Safe as Lightning, will lead a workshop on the common, but sometimes marginalized, experience of Wonder, using poetry to explore, share and initiate discussion about those moments of opening that show us who we really are and how the world could be.

The workshop will open with a series of poems that explore a spiritual opening in my life, and how it was shaped by my religious tradition. The session will then invite participants to share—through poems (or prose) you bring or have written—moments of opening about experiences in your own life. There will be time for response, reflection, and conversation. The heart of the workshop will be exploring the question: How do these glimpses of wonder become knowledge that helps us live our lives; and how does poetry help this happen?

Free and open to the public. A PoemCity 2023 Event.