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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| January
2010 | ||||
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, hosted by James Joseph. |
Friday, January 15 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
| Reading by mystery writers Joanne Dobson (Death Without Tenure; Quieter Than Sleep) www.joannedobson.com and S. J. Rozan (The Shanghai Moon, Concourse; Absent Friends) www.sjrozan.com; introduction by writer Stefanie Pintoff |
Sunday, January 24 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| February 2010 | ||||
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, hosted by Dan Rustin. | Friday, February 19 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
| Reading by Marilyn Johnson (This Book Is Overdue!; The Dead Beat) www.marilynjohnson.net and R. D. Rosen (Psychobabble; Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West); introduction by writer Peggy Ellsberg |
Sunday, February 28 | 4:30
pm | HVWC
| $5
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| March 2010 National Small Press Month | ||||
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, hosted by Andrea Alterman. (note: March 2010 open mike has been rescheduled from third Friday to second Friday) |
Friday, March 12 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
| Big Read event: Young Adult novelist Patricia McCormick reads from her latest release, Purple Heart www.pattymccormick.com |
Sunday, March 14 | 2:00
pm |
Free | |
| Reading by Slapering Hol Press 2009 Chapbook Competition Lynn Wagner and SHP & Crab Orchard Press author Sean Nevin; introduction by poet Barbara Fischer |
Friday, March 19 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
| Reading by Slapering Hol Press poets Sean Nevin, Lynn Wagner, Barbara Fischer and Suzanne Cleary; introduction by poet Margo Stever |
Sunday, March 21 | 6
- 8 pm |
$7 (includes one house drink) | |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| April 2010 National Poetry Month | ||||
| Book signing for SHP poets Sean Nevin and Lynn Wagner | Wednesday, April 7 | 2:00
pm | AWP
Annual Conference Denver, CO | |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Café with poets Cindy Beer-Fouhy, Ellen Goldsmith, and Hilary Sideris | Friday, April 9 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. |
Friday, April 16 | 8
pm | HVWC |
$3 |
| Reading by Mervyn Taylor, Amy Holman and Ann Lauinger. |
Sunday, April 25 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| May 2010 | ||||
| Reading by Elizabeth Bradley and Joseph O'Neill, author of the critically acclaimed novel Netherland | Thursday, May 6 | 7:30
pm | HVWC | $5 |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Café with poets Meg Kearney www.megkearney.com and Matthea Harvey www.mattheaharvey.info |
Friday, May 14 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
| Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition Submission Deadline | Saturday, May 15 (postmark by) |
n/a
| n/a |
n/a |
Twilight Readers' Series with Ilya Kaminsky and Jeffrey Harrison | Thursday,
May 20 | 7:30
pm | HVWC | $5 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. | Friday, May 21 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC | $3 |
| Port Chester Arts and Culture Festival - Live Bands, Dance Performances, Art Workshops, International Food, Art Studio Open Houses |
Saturday,
May 22 | 12
- 7 pm | On
the Port Chester Waterfront | Free |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| June 2010 | ||||
| Mindy
Lewis, Laura Shane Cunningham, and Mimi Schwartz read from the
anthology Dirt: The Quirks,
Habits, and Passions of Keeping House | Sunday, June 6 | 4:30
pm | HVWC | $5
|
| HVWC and SHP reading with Helen Barolini and Estha Weiner |
Thursday, June 17 | 7:30
pm | Village
Bookstore (in Pleasantville) | FREE |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers |
Friday, June 18 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
| Twilight Readers' Series Denise Duhamel and Robert Olmstead |
Thursday, June 24 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| July 2010 | ||||
| HVWC Open House - Meet and greet with instructors and learn about their plans for classes this fall. Sign up for classes at the open house and your registration fee(s) will be waived. | Thursday, July 8 | 7:30
- 9:00 pm | HVWC |
FREE |
| Twilight Readers' Series with Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Herbert Hadad | Thursday,
July 15 | 7:30
pm | HVWC | $5 |
Words
& Music: Bach and Poetry, an Ekphrastic Benefit Event |
Sunday, July 25 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$15 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers |
Friday, July 16 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| August 2010 | ||||
A Twilight Readers' Series: A Reading by Young Audience Authors with Nora Baskin, Elizabeth Sachs, and Maya Gold. | Thursday,
August 5 | 7:30
pm | HVWC | $5 |
| Open Mike Night with JAZZ for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. This special open mike event will be hosted by Nathaniel "Papahawk" Goldberg and will allow the readers the option of being accomponied by the improvisations of livev jazz. |
Friday, August 20 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$5 |
| Readings from Black Nature - Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Presented by HVWC and SHP in conjunction with Cave Canem Foundation) | Sunday, August 22 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 |
| HVWC Small Press Celebration - Come learn about other local presses including Inkwell, Toadlilly Press, and Westchester Review and hear readings from their authors. | Sunday,
August 29 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| September 2010 | ||||
| HVWC Reading Series featuring writers profiled in River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Nina Shengold and Jennifer May | Sunday,
Sept 12 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| CANCELED (for Yom Kippur): Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers |
Friday, Sept 17 | N/A |
HVWC |
N/A |
| Annual HVWC Mystery Writers Reading with Jane Cleland and Terese Svoboda. |
Sunday, Sept 19 | 4:30 |
HVWC |
$5 |
| HVWC Reading Series with poets Vivian Shipley and P.H. Liotta | Sunday,
Sept 26 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| October 2010 | ||||
| Annual HVWC Gala For more information contact the Writers' Center at 914.332.5953 | Saturday,
Oct 2 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| SHP Reading Series with poets Emily Fragos and Timothy Donnelly | Friday,
Oct 8 | 7:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers |
Friday, Oct 15 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| HVWC Reading Series with novelists Jennifer Gilmore and Matthew Aaron Goodman | Sunday,
Oct 17 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| HVWC Reading Series with Afaa Michael Weaver and Stephen Haven | Sunday,
Oct 24 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| November 2010 | ||||
| HVWC Reading Series with poets Julie Sheehan and Steve Huff | Sunday,
Nov 7 | 4:30 |
HVWC |
$5 |
| Writers on War (more information to come) | Friday,
Nov 12 | 7:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers |
Friday, Nov 19 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| HVWC Reading Series: Readings from The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay a novel in stories by the late author Beverly Jensen | Sunday,
Nov 21 | 4:30 |
HVWC | $5 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| December 2010 | ||||
HVWC Reading Series featuring authors Rigoberto Gonzalez, Maria Melendez, and Sergio Troncoso reading from the recent anthology Camino del Sol: 15 Years of Latina and Latino Writing | Sunday,
Dec 5 | 4:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| HVWC Reading Series with poets Jo Ann Clark and Gardner McFall | Friday,
Dec 10 | 7:30 | HVWC | $5 |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers | Friday, Dec 17 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Notes: HVWC = The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Events are held in the restored Philipse Manor railroad station. The Arts Exchange is the headquarters of ArtsWestchester, located at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue (corner of Martine Ave.) in White Plains, NY. Click here for directions. Warner Library is located at 121 North Broadway (Route 9), Tarrytown, New York, approximately 1.5 miles north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Neuberger Museum of Art is located on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577. Manhattanville College is located at 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase New York. For information or to reserve a space, call (914) 323-5300. For directions, see www.manhattanville.edu. For further information about any of these events, call the Writers' Center at 914-332-5953. |