These days, at “Little Patch,” her home in the Old School Commons in downtown Northampton, MA, Patricia Lee Lewis hosts groups of writers who further the work of Straw Dog Writers Guild in a variety of ways:
- raising funds to support The WriteAngles Conference to take place in Greenfield MA on October 18, 2025;
- choosing winners of week-long residencies at Edith Wharton’s Mount in Lenox MA, sponsored by the Writers Guild;
- crafting strategic plans for the Writers Guild’s growth and new programs in its 15th anniversary year.
And, whenever possible, Patricia holds gatherings of energetic, gifted neighbors who work to build community and beautify the grounds of Old School Commons, where she serves as a member of the board of trustees
Still Traveling: For the past two years, Patricia has invited other writers to join her in beautiful places by the sea: in 2023, in Maine at the Gray Havens Inn, and in 2024, on the wee Isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. In fall, 2025, Patricia and five other writers will gather in Vancouver at the invitation of one of their long-time writing colleagues. Patricia no longer leads the groups, but rather, is happily one writer among friends.
Wherever in the world she spends time with writers and other sojourners, she celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred, to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us, and to writing together as a participatory, supportive endeavor. She is inspired by the promise of expansion and community that writing holds for all of us, and continues, after 30 years, to hold to the generative writing method developed by Amherst Writers & Artists, for which she was a national trainer of workshop leaders.