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!
This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative work; and discovering an appreciative audience […]
Please join HVWC as we launch our Winter/Spring 2024 Reading Series with poets Kazim Ali, Cynthia Cruz, Jane Hirshfield, & Dorianne Laux via Zoom! Sunday, January 21, 4 PM ET […]
Join Anastacia-Renee as she leads a supportive, inspiring workshop for six weeks Jan 22-March 4 (no class on Feb 18). NB: This class is capped at 12 and will be […]
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 […]
Join us online for a night of poetry cultivating our collective urge to grow, tend, and heal, and to help launch Tess Taylor’s poetry anthology Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens […]
What the world needs now is more love. (Doesn’t it always?) In this generative and craft workshop, we’ll explore all kind of love: familial, romantic, passionate, platonic—and discuss how other […]
An evening of interactive magic at the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center. Presented by Noah Levine. Noah Levine (Magic After Hours, Speakeasy Magick, The Magic Castle) presents a night of conjuring […]
“History is the function of any one of us,” Charles Olson once said. In this workshop we will consider the poet as a witness to history and poetry as document. […]
Who doesn't love a good experiment; especially when it accompanies erasure? In this one-day workshop, we will work in two parts: Act one: We will examine the craft of erasure […]
Lyric poetry, conventionally speaking, is far less interested in "what happened" than "how something felt"; when crafted effectively, it enacts "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions" and allows readers access […]