WELCOME TO THE HVWC CALENDAR: home of all our upcoming readings, events and workshops. You can view by list or calendar (see right menu to choose). Click the colored tabs below to show only specific options. Our workshops run as multi-session series or one-day “intensives.” Note, we list the multi-session courses on the first day they meet only. The full dates of the session are described in the course descriptions. You would need to scroll back to the start date if you needed to enroll for something already underway. But do let us know if you want to join something in midstream since we need the blessing of the instructor. Questions? Email us.
Workshops – This category encompasses all one-day and multi-week classes, whether in person or via Zoom.
Readings – Our readings are in many different genres and take place in person, on Zoom, or both!
HVWC Recurring Events – This category encompasses such regular favorites as Open Mic, Open Write, and Submission Sunday.
Special Events – These other creative experiences are sure to interest our creative community!
This four-week workshop will meet on Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM ET on Zoom, from June 4 through June 25. Description in English: Over the course of this four-week workshop, we will read poems by 4 Latin American poets: Elvira Hernández (tr. Alec Schumacher), Liliana Ponce (tr. Michael Martin Shea), Miyó Vestrini (tr. Anne Boyer & Cassandra […]
This is a course designed for writers looking to create screenplays, stage plays, and teleplays for television shows. Paramount in this effort, we will focus on an approach which is necessary in all dramatic writing — the importance of conflict. How we define, pinpoint and create interesting, unusual characters. How structure is the backbone of […]
In this four hour poetry intensive, will we will discover ways to encourage delightful oddness within our poems through experimentation, discussion, and generative prompts. First, we will first explore the art of persona poetry: discussing how the "I" in persona poems differs from the "lyric I,” and how the safe distance created by this difference […]