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 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 […]
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 […]
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” ~ Emile Zola What I’ve learned over my years […]
In Pure Critique we range far and wide in our discussions. To give you a sense of the creative fervor, the maelstrom of imaginative popcorn, the synaptic jumps and quantum leaps, […]
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 […]
Writing with Oven Mitts: Nurturing the Creative Spark of the Writer/Mother Writing and motherhood are courageous acts of creation, requiring patience, love, dedication, and faith. But too often the demands […]
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 […]