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.
"Show, Don't Tell" is such standard writing advice that it's become cliché. But is it good writing advice? Well, it depends. Sometimes it's best to show. This class is about the other times. We'll look at ways telling can help you pace a story and better manage the movement of time. We'll study techniques to […]
Join award-winning poet, Michael Patrick Collins as he helps you revise your difficult to place poems that you think are almost finished. Send one poem (limit two pages) to [email protected] when you register for this class. NB: This class will take place on Zoom. This class is capped at 15 students. The Zoom link will […]
What's up with sonnets? Six centuries after its invention, it still has the power to beguile and fascinate, even as it keeps transforming in contemporary hands. We'll spend the first hour discussing sonnets with a focus on the 21st Century sonnet, and then spend the rest of the class writing our own sonnets and sharing […]
Hudson Valley Writers Workshop: In-Person Workshop — Sunday, August 28, 2022 12:30-4:30 pm NB: This is an in-person workshop at HVWC in the Philipse Manor Train Station in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It will be capped at 10 students. All must show proof of vaccination to attend this class. Please read our class policies before signing […]
What makes a poem memorable? Dave Smith says it’s “... a confident use of language which releases feeling and keeps releasing it with repeated readings.”Naomi Shihab Nye says for her it is, “Love and care for elemental details... and a way of ending that leaves a new resonance or a lit spark in the reader […]
This two-hour course will focus on the contemporary lyric poem as it centers on nature, with significant attention to classical lyric modes that inflect and shape the current nature poem. For example, how do the pastoral and idyll, among several other important modes, lead us to the environmental poem, to docu-poetry, and ecopoetry? We’ll also […]
Join Arthur Sze in person at HVWC as returns to teach another Master Class on the practice of poetry. This class is capped at 20 students. Scholarship information will be available in July and will be due on August 15th. Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including Sight Lines (2019), which won the […]
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 [email protected] Back by popular demand, Edward Hirsch will return to HVWC on Zoom to teach a craft class on […]
Writing your way into the unknown is the most thrilling aspect of poetry. If we already knew what we were going to say, there’d be no surprise and little excitement. The turn (or volta) is so essential that in some received forms, like the sonnet, there’s a specific place prescribed for it. But even in […]