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!
Don't miss this rare chance to work with brilliant West Coast poet & professor, Kim Addonizio. Bring copies of a poem you’re trying to wrestle into shape! We’ll discuss it […]
A writer must be a reader first and last. Your poetic proficiency, your potential goodness or greatness, depends on your depth as a reader. I will take us on a […]
Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her […]
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, […]
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 […]
No, writing poetry is not necessarily a therapeutic process. But in anxious times, we can turn to creativity as a means of engaging dynamically with complex feelings and experiences. In […]
Submission Sundays is a free service to members of HVWC. Space is limited so please reserve your spot. This group will meet online via Zoom. The host will email the […]
Storyteller David Neilsen will perform a 25-minute retelling of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In costume, Neilsen uses Irving's original language to set the scene and take the […]
Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the Second Saturday of each month. This group will take place in HYBRID FORM, meaning that there will […]
We are excited to hold Open Mic Night in hybrid form, both in-person at HVWC and virtually! Physical and virtual doors open at 7:20 pm for event starting at 7:30 […]
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 […]
Storyteller David Neilsen will perform a 25-minute retelling of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In costume, Neilsen uses Irving's original language to set the scene and take the […]
Theories of comedy go back to antiquity in many cultures, and we’ll familiarize ourselves with some of those. Then we’ll reverse-engineer some genuinely funny poems to learn what we can […]
Alan Felsenthal's second collection, Hereafter was listed as one of the most anticipated books of 2024 in Publisher's Weekly. He is also the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). His […]
I like to think of a first draft as the block of marble we've dragged up from the quarry into our studio. The first draft might be roughly the size […]
During the first hour of this four-hour workshop we’ll read and explore published poems that will give you strategies for developing fragments and stalled beginnings into actual poems, for writing […]
This interactive class, led by a longtime independent book editor and writer in the publishing world, helps you get the navigational tools you need to chart a path from being […]
An evening of interactive magic at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Presented by Noah Levine. Noah Levine (Magic After Hours, Speakeasy Magick, The Magic Castle) presents a night of conjuring […]
Poets have always called out to whatever they consider holy: God, the Goddess, a higher power, nature, the unfathomable. We reach out with ‘why’ questions, such as ‘Why is this […]
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 […]
Please join the Slapering Hol Press coeditors, Liz Marlow & Luisa Caycedo- Kimura, as they welcome four poets who have just published their first full-length collections. This reading will tale […]
In this two hour discussion class, we will closely read poems through the lens of thermostatic control -- we'll especially look at the actual language of the poem, pretty much […]
With so many things to worry over, we need to keep finding joy and celebrating gratitude. This feel–good workshop will help you write in praise of small beauties, large events […]
The first formal poem to really sink its teeth into me was “One Art,” by Elizabeth Bishop. Something about using the fussiness of the villanelle to contain and express the […]