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!
Writers know, restraints on language create powerful poems. They focus the attention of a writer's monkey-mind—which actively avoids a deep exploration of the heart of the poem they're trying to […]
“The image is the bridge. The image is what activates the body of the reader, and connects the writer to the person reading. It allows readers to join in and […]
In this class, we'll put aside the sonnet and sestina and look to more quotidian modes for poems--think personal ads and dictionary definitions, emails and Amazon reviews. Be prepared to […]
Sometimes our best words, lines, and phrases are keeping the poem from blooming. How can we take a fresh look at our writing to find the poem under the poem? […]
How can I evoke a world/situation/character/emotion swiftly and potently? This is a question that fiction writers are always asking, but flash fiction brings particular urgency to it. Participants will examine […]
Do you write poems only when you feel strong emotions? Would you like to discover another route into writing new poems? This generative poetry workshop provides model poems and writing […]
"Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was--that is research. The point is […]
This will be a generative workshop focusing on the expressive powers of the sonnet form and its flexibility and openness to experimentation, adaptation, and change from the Sixteenth Century to […]
A traditional workshop that will look in particular at those poems that insist on being written, but are not finished in a satisfying way. Each participant will submit a poem […]
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place […]
