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!
A workshop focusing on generating fiction by utilizing prompts drawn from fairy tales and other sources. We will be generating flash stories or the beginnings of stories in this workshop, […]
Are you inspired to write about the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances surrounding your most vivid memories? For those with a work-in-progress or […]
Marianne Moore said, "our thorns are the best part of you" ("Roses Only"). The key to revision then is not to eliminate the poem's metaphoric thorns but to convince the reader […]
This workshop focuses on revision and editing methods for poetry. We will explore some editing techniques that can radically alter the course of the work and allow the writer to […]
This 4 hour intensive class is designed to stretch participants’ imaginations by giving you a sequence of provocative prompts of very various kinds, and very short writing times so as […]
As poet-translators, we give and take shape, sharing abilities, power, and potential. The ultimate goal of this course is to help students to revise their own creative work through the lens of translation and to explore ways in which translation can enrich their own writing and editorial process.
“History is the function of any one of us,” Charles Olson once said. In this workshop we will consider the poet as a witness to history and poetry as document. […]
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 […]
Richard Wilbur said, “One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontations.” When it feels like the world is ending, we notice things […]
This poetry workshop will center on ways to activate the political self which often lies dormant. Whether it be the politics of tyranny, the politics of relationship dynamics, of power […]