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!

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What New Form Does This Poem Call for? With Sharon Dolin (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

"The constraints of form are spurs to the imagination," writes poet George Szirtes. In this workshop, we'll go beyond the sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and pantoum and try out new contemporary poetic forms, such as Alams, the Gigan, and the Anagram poem to explore the way form itself influences, inspires, and shapes the content of what […]

$130.00

Making Order From Chaos: Turning Our Wild Lives Into Organized Received Forms with Alexis Sears (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Life is unpredictable and some things, good and bad, we simply cannot make sense of. In this workshop, we will focus on taking significant events from our pasts and attempting to organize them into received formal poems. Forms such as the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina give us poets the opportunity to take control, using strict […]

$130.00

Silence in Poems with Jessica Cuello (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

In On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich writes that “it is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.” A pressurized, internal language resulting from restriction, repression, and denial can bring about an explosion of language that exists on the level of utterance or trance. In work […]

$130.00

Professional Empowerment Across Genres:  How to Successfully Pitch, Promote and Fund Your Creative Projects with Kristina Marie Darling (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative work; and discovering an appreciative audience more generally. We will address such topics as the fine art of pitches, artist statements, personal statements, project proposals, choosing the work sample, tailoring the […]

$130.00

Poet as Witness to History: A Generative writing class with Tina Cane (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

“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. We will read and discuss poets from various periods in order to understand how their cultural moment impacted their writing and what impact their writing […]

$130.00

Say Less: Implication, Suggestion, and the Lyric Mode with Nathan McClain (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email [email protected]. Lyric poetry, conventionally speaking, is far less interested in "what happened" than "how something felt"; when crafted effectively, it […]

$130.00

Honing the Muse: a Generative Workshop with Yesenia Montilla (Via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Throughout history the muses whether fictional or real have been used by artists to hone inspiration. In this workshop Yesenia will use poems, music & visual art to call on these elusive muses in hopes for transformation on the page. We will take a look at some muses throughout history & challenge the notion of the passive […]

$130.00

Me-search Poetry: Locating the heart of emotion in research-based poetry IN PERSON with Gregory Pardlo

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email [email protected] Documentary poetics, verse journalism, lyric essay--these and creative practices inspired by research can produce poems that are as […]

$150.00

Playing Within In-Between Spaces: The Exploration of the Prose and Poetry Hybrid with Shanta Lee (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

While there still is debate about the mixing of genres, there are many authors who have and continue to boldly go into the area of hybridity inviting us as practitioners and readers to expand how we approach our craft.  As presented in the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee,  Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American […]

$130.00

The Burning Heart: Finding the Energy in Short Fiction with Karen Auvinen (via Zoom)

Hudson Valley Writers Center Philipse Manor Station, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Short story writer Rick Bass talks about the “burning heart of the story,” the place where the story quickens, where the energy seems to snap and ignite. In this workshop, we’ll learn to recognize the burning heart of a story and practice techniques to locate it. Bring the opening paragraph of a story to work […]

$130.00