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!

Hudson Valley Writers Center

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Philipse Manor Station
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 United States Get Directions
914.332.5953
www.writerscenter.org

Located at the Philipse Manor Station (still an operating local stop on Metro-North Hudson East line, but we inhabit the historic building!) the Hudson Valley Writers Center offers unique classes and a versatile performance space.

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Event Series Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)

Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)

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

Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]

$20.00
Event Series The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis

The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis

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

The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]

Poet as Witness to History: A Generative Writing Class with Tina Cane (via Zoom)

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

“History is the function of any one of us,” Charles Olson once said. In this workshop we will consider the poet as a witness to history and poetry as document. We will read and discuss poets from various periods in order to understand how their cultural moment impacted their writing and what impact their writing […]

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Event Series Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)

Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)

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

Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]

$20.00
Event Series The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis

The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis

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

The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]

The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)

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

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 necessary in all dramatic writing — the importance of conflict. How we define, pinpoint and create interesting, unusual characters. How structure is the backbone of […]

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Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)

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

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 pm. Due to popular demand to participate, we’ve had to limit the amount of readers to 20. All performers, whether “in person” or on Zoom, […]

Free – $5.00

Poetry’s Strange, Surreal Forest: Cultivating the Delightfully Odd in Our Poems with Lauren Brazeal Garza (via Zoom)

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

In this four hour poetry intensive, will we will discover ways to encourage delightful oddness within our poems through experimentation, discussion, and generative prompts. First, we will first explore the art of persona poetry: discussing how the "I" in persona poems differs from the "lyric I,” and how the safe distance created by this difference […]

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Writing From the End of the World with Caitlin Grace McDonnell (via Zoom)

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

Richard Wilbur said, “One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontations.” When it feels like the world is ending, we notice things around us in a new way. Our attention becomes very present to detail. That's what fueled my latest book of poems, Pandemic City, written while […]

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Against Tyranny: A Political Poetry Workshop with Leah Umansky (via Zoom)

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

This poetry workshop will center on ways to activate the political self which often lies dormant. Whether it be the politics of tyranny, the politics of relationship dynamics, of power dynamics or of feminism, all of us are political. In this workshop, we will focus on generative writing prompts that encourage the prompting of speaking […]

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