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!
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 […]
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 […]
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”—James Thurber “Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.” —Sid Caesar […]
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 […]
Are you interested in understanding the scope, needs and skills to craft a strong short screenplay? Short films are a great way to showcase your voice, talent and storytelling skill, […]
“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 […]
In her essay on The Power of Horror, Dorothea Lasky writes, “Maybe horror itself is a place to heal.” In this generative class, we’ll examine how poets look into the […]
There is an amazing moment in Book 18 of the Iliad where Homer stops talking about war and begins, in great detail and great emotional depth, to describe the shield […]
In what ways is "The Little Mermaid", "The Shadow", or "The Fisherman and His Soul" also about one choosing one’s own fate regardless of brutal consequence? How can we see […]
