“The Hudson Valley Writers Center presides over a great river of language, heart, and imagination.”
—Fred Marchant
Authors: to schedule a reading with HVWC, please contact [email protected] 6 months-1 year in advance of your publication date. Please note: we are fully booked through the rest of 2024. Thank you!
The Hudson Valley Writers Center brings writers and readers together to celebrate the essential art of the written and spoken word. The Center fosters a vibrant literary arts community that supports and empowers writers and readers of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds at every stage of their creative development.
We are committed to ensuring our programming is accessible to as many people as possible through our pay-what-you-can reading series, scholarship initiatives, and ongoing engagement with the members of our growing local and virtual communities.
Workshops
Monday Night Poetry Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
April 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Hybridity Debate: Exploring the Cento, Erasure, and the Burning Haibun with Kay E. Bancroft (via Zoom)
April 27 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Letters as a Literary Form (Prose & Poetry) with Teow Lim Goh (via Zoom)
April 28 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara (in hybrid form)
April 30 @ 10:30 am - 12:45 pm
Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (in hybrid form)
April 30 @ 1:15 pm - 3:30 pm
The Elements of Short Fiction with Jennifer Gessner (in person at HVWC)
May 1 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Memoir Writing Workshop (Weds PM) with Susan Hodara Via Zoom
May 1 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Writing the Short Story with Alisa Kwitney (via Zoom)
May 1 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
May 3 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Events
“I had a friend who…”: Writing Friendship with Chen Chen (via Zoom)
April 20 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
An Afternoon of New Fiction with Lynn Schmeidler, Ananda Lima, & Carol Mitchell in person at HVWC
April 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Open Write (via Zoom)
April 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)
April 26 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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