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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Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner via Zoom

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

This is a 12-week course meeting Tuesdays from 7 pm to 9 pm (Eastern Time), starting February 6 and ending May 14. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Login details will be sent via email from the instructor a few days before class begins. Please email [email protected] with questions. How long have you been saying you want to write a book? […]

$670.00

Winter Break 3-Day Creativity Camp (Grades 3-5) In Person at HVWC

Winter Break 3-Day Creativity Camp In-person at HVWC Grades 3-5 February 21-23, 2024 9:00am - 4:00 pm Join teaching artist Misty Yarnall for 3 days of fun at Hudson Valley Writers Center! Participants will put on their writer's caps and learn new ways to explore character, setting, and plot through generative writing prompts, improv games, […]

$250.00

Queering the Personal/Political Line: The Documentary Epistolary, a Poetics of Protest and Identity with Subhaga Crystal Bacon (via Zoom)

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

Emily Dickinson famously wrote her “letter to the world that never wrote” to her. In her article, “Queering the Epistolary: On the Radical Potential of Epistolary Poetry," Madeleine Craven says "Poems . . . are letters made public." For Queer poets—indeed, for poets engaged consciously with the socio-political sphere—the world is constantly writing to us […]

$130.00

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

Midrash: Poetry Workshop with Alicia Ostriker (via Zoom)

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

Midrash writing is a modern adaptation of an ancient rabbinic form–retelling some of the compelling stories in the Bible, from the point of view of the characters. In workshop, we start by re-imagining Adam and Eve, then go on to more complicated tales, discovering what they can mean for us today. Participants work at speed—some […]

$150.00

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

Chiaroscuro: The Poetry of Memory with Tim Seibles (via Zoom)

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

Chiaroscuro:  an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on an object. Our lives and our sense of life are made up of what we remember of lived experience. The memories that we cling to (and those that we try to forget) shape the way we […]

$150.00

The Elements of Short Fiction with Jennifer Gessner (in person at HVWC)

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

“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 education and publishing, is something I likely knew innately and that led me down my career path - everyone has a story to tell. […]

$335.00

Room To Roam: Writing the Voice of the Body with Edwin Torres (via Zoom)

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

Where are we located in our writer’s world and is that alignment reflected in our work? Part of allowing the creative process its chance to amaze, is to encourage that trigger into amazement. Structured as a creative laboratory, this generative workshop will enrich our natural tri-lingual bodies, our speaking-seeing-hearing body, by bringing our creative capabilities into the […]

$150.00

A Generative Master Class: “The Intimate Voice and the Dramatic Eye: how poems create closeness and tension with D. Nurkse (Via ZOOM)

"The Intimate Voice and the Dramatic Eye:  how poems create closeness and tension." We will discuss participants' prior work, but we will have discussion poems and prompts also. The students will receive a packet of poems from Dennis before class. NB: This class has moved to ZOOM and will be capped at 12 students. Please […]

$150.00