“The Hudson Valley Writers Center presides over a great river of language, heart, and imagination.”
—Fred Marchant
Authors: to schedule a reading with HVWC, please contact [email protected] 6 months-1 year in advance of your publication date. Please note: we are fully booked through the rest of 2024. Thank you!
The Hudson Valley Writers Center brings writers and readers together to celebrate the essential art of the written and spoken word. The Center fosters a vibrant literary arts community that supports and empowers writers and readers of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds at every stage of their creative development.
We are committed to ensuring our programming is accessible to as many people as possible through our pay-what-you-can reading series, scholarship initiatives, and ongoing engagement with the members of our growing local and virtual communities.
Workshops
The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
May 3 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
No Idea: Writing Fiction from Nothing with Richard Mirabella (via Zoom)
May 4 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Memoir Writing Intensive with Susan Hodara (in person at HVWC)
May 4 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Master Craft Class on revision with Mary Jo Bang (IN PERSON)
May 5 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
The Elements of Short Fiction with Jennifer Gessner (in person at HVWC)
May 8 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (via Zoom on Thursday mornings)
May 9 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
The Radical Revision: Generative Poetry Workshop with Nicholas Goodly (via Zoom)
May 18 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Writing What You Didn’t Expect to Write with Alicia Ostriker (via Zoom)
May 18 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Writing with Oven Mitts: Nurturing the Creative Spark of the Writer/Mother (In Person at HVWC)
May 19 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Events
The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis
May 3 @ 10:30 am - 11:15 am
Platform Magic with Noah Levine (in person at HVWC)
May 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Submission Sunday (via Zoom)
May 5 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Poetry and Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and Rowan Ricardo Phillips (IN PERSON)
May 5 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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