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!
Poetic Magic: Reading & Writing Unforgettable Poems: Are there poems you have read that stay with you, that you return to again and again, poems that inspire and provoke your imagination […]
This is a six week class taught on Zoom starting on Friday November 10th and ending on Friday December 22nd. NB: There will be no class on Friday November 24 […]
Nearly 2,700 years ago, Sappho made songs of consuming desire; what remains of them thrills us today. Why are we drawn to other people’s love stories? How do amorous and […]
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 […]
A generation ago, Bertold Brecht claimed that to talk about a tree was a betrayal because it was to be silent about injustice. Now a "nature" poem cuts to our […]
In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault writes, “The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
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 […]