“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 2023. 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
Honing the Muse: a Generative Workshop with Yesenia Montilla (Via Zoom)
June 10 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Writing What You Didn’t Expect to Write with Alicia Ostriker (via Zoom)
June 10 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Poetry Workshop for Teens with Leah Umansky (via Zoom)
June 10 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Poems of Collective Memory with Esther Lin (via Zoom)
June 11 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Travel Writing and Social Justice: Dismantling the Inner Colonizer with Bani Amor (via Zoom)
June 11 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Diving Deep / Explorations in Memoir & Creative Nonfiction a Master Class with Mindy Lewis (via Zoom)
June 17 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
“Remake It, Don’t Break It”: Prose Poems with Ruben Quesada (via Zoom)
June 17 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Hybrid Poetry as Witness and Reclamation Workshop with Shira Dentz (via Zoom)
June 18 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Craft Class: Deep Dives into First and Second Poetry Collections with Justin Wymer (via Zoom)
June 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Events
Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)
June 9 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
June 10 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)
June 16 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
June 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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