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!
Please note that the July 25 session of this workshop is now sold out! There are limited seats available in the AUGUST 19 SESSION. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email [email protected] “You own everything that happened to you.”—Anne Lamott […]
This workshop focuses on the art of editing, and offers techniques that help writers re-enter that old friend, the poem that’s almost finished, with renewed creative energy. The one you’ve read and reread, and tweaked and put in the drawer. Each poet can bring in any poem they wish, even a new one. Bring in a piece (up […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other memoir workshop options, please email [email protected] Getting Started with Memoir Writing Are you inspired to begin to write about the transforming events of your […]
This 4-week, 2-hour workshop is designed for those who would like to kickstart or refine their poetry writing practice. In this class, we will look at poems from established writers such as Michael Longley, Nicole Sealey, Marie Howe, and Ilya Kaminsky, as a means to discuss craft: line, imagery, language, and the consideration of form […]
In this generative writing workshop, we will read and write poems that explore survival and hope. What does it mean to have hope in spite of our troubles? How can we channel light in our writing, even as we navigate that which unsettles us? In this workshop, we will read poems by Chen Chen, Ocean […]
Guided by poems from Kaveh Akbar, Wendy Videlock, A. E. Stallings, Chris Bullard, and more, this class examines the ways that the repetition of a single word can have a cumulative and explosive effect on a poem. This class includes time for generative response and an opportunity to share our writing. NB: This class is […]
In partnership with Tarrytown Arts Camps! Register for this workshop here July 10-14 9:15 am-1pm $150 residents, $170 non-residents Grades 5-8 *for students interested in a full day experience week 1, sign up for Outdoor Painting 1:15-3:15 and HWVC will provide a chaperone to walk students to Kingsland in the afternoon Do you love reading […]
Writers Express presents: Write What Matters In-person at HVWC Grades 9-12 July 10-14 1:30-4:00 in-person at HVWC Why do we write? Because as writers, we have to. This upper-level teen workshop dives into the questions authors ask themselves during the drafting process. Why does this matter? Why today? Why am I the person to tell […]
This generative Monday Night Poetry workshop explores poems on aging & memory. How can we write in new ways about our memories? How can we create poems that effectively share the unique experience of growing older, with all of the transitions, freedoms, fears, burdens and unknowns that it brings? Readings will include poems by Lucille […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other memoir workshop options, please email [email protected] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other memoir workshop options, please email [email protected] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Wednesdays 12:30-3:00pm, starting Wednesday July 12 and ending Wednesday August 16th. You have written the first draft of your full-length collection. Now, we need to order all of the poems, decide if there should be sections, revise each of the poems, settle on the title, and most importantly—remove […]
Developing Your YA/MG Fiction Ready to take your young adult/middle grade writing to the next level? Maybe you’re trying to polish your novel or complete that short story you’ve been stuck on. This workshop will help you get feedback on your work-in-progress from writers who, like you, love writing for kids. Come with your current […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other memoir workshop options, please email [email protected] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
NB: This is a six week class taught on Zoom starting Friday July 14 and ending Friday August 18th. You have written the first draft of your full-length collection. Now, we need to order all of the poems, decide if there should be sections, revise each of the poems, settle on the title, and most […]
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 […]
Mapping A Cosmology: In this workshop we’ll read our poems and others’ with a special emphasis on the cosmologies we poets create through imagery and metaphor. We’ll identify and then focus on using our obsessions as generative subject matter. How might we extend and vivify those obsessions in the body of the poem through line, […]
Character Development: In this two hour intensive, we will explore strategies and techniques for creating vivid and memorable characters, including methods for disguising and distancing characters based on yourself or real, living people, and methods for writing characters very unlike you from the inside out; why false beliefs and mindworms are the key to character […]
In partnership with Tarrytown Arts Camps! Register for this workshop here Rising Grades 5-8 July 17-21 9:15 am-2:30 pm $315, residents, $335 non-residents *Limited scholarships available for school district families - indicate on form The SHAC THEATER WORKSHOP gives kids the opportunity to collaborate with local professional artists from The Sleepy Hollow Arts Center (The SHAC) […]
This class takes the raw footage of your own memories and gives you techniques for turning them into vividly rendered scenes in your memoir. Bring a few memories or key scenes from a book in progress and we’ll write around and to them in order to make them come alive. Bring a willingness to play […]
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 start by re-imagining Adam and Eve, then go on to more complicated tales, discovering what they can mean for us today. Participants work at speed—some […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email askwriterscenter.org But what do we mean when we talk about form? Is any poem not in form? Any three […]
This August 1 workshop will be a series of prompts to inspire your summer writing. This workshop will feature a series of contemplations inspired by dogs, the film Dog Day Afternoon, and the summer afternoon as backdrop. I am excited about this configuration, and the reflection it will provide us. First, dogs. Yes, dogs as friend, […]
This 6-week, 2.5-hour workshop is designed for those who would like to kickstart or refine their poetry writing practice. In this class, we will look at poems from established writers such as Michael Longley, Nicole Sealey, Marie Howe, and Ilya Kaminsky, as a means to discuss craft: line, imagery, language, and the consideration of form […]
There are things we find difficult to write about. Persona poetry is one way we can enter and explore the unsayable on the page. It helps us step back from the particulars of our lives and imagine other perspectives. In turning our focus away from our autobiographical selves, we can cut through our fears to […]