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Submission Sunday (via Zoom)
Submission Sunday (via Zoom)
M.A. Scott is away at a residency this month. This group will skip its January meeting and looks forward to seeing everyone in February.
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Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
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YoYB: Poetry, Wednesday with Jennifer Franklin (via Zoom)
YoYB: Poetry, Wednesday with Jennifer Franklin (via Zoom)
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Wednesdays 12:30pm-3:00pm starting Wednesday January 4th and ending Wednesday February 8th. 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 any poems […]
$250.00 – $370.00
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Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (via Zoom)
Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (via Zoom)
While this class is underway, if you'd like to join, you are still welcome to do so. Registration can be pro-rated. Please write to [email protected] for details. Whether writing in a garret, ivory tower, pandemic lockdown or a fever pitch of blind faith, at some point writers need a hothouse workshop environment in which to […]
$380.00 – $430.00
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Year of Your Book: Poetry with Jennifer Franklin (via Zoom)
Year of Your Book: Poetry with Jennifer Franklin (via Zoom)
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Fridays 10:30am-1:00pm, starting Friday January 6th and ending Friday February 10th. 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 […]
$370.00
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The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
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 […]
$270.00 – $320.00
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Making a Poem Memorable: Generative Workshop with Dorianne Laux (via Zoom)
Making a Poem Memorable: Generative Workshop with Dorianne Laux (via Zoom)
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 […]
$124.00
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The Wide World: Translating Poetry, an ongoing monthly workshop with Sarah Arvio (via Zoom)
The Wide World: Translating Poetry, an ongoing monthly workshop with Sarah Arvio (via Zoom)
The Wide World: Translating Poetry, an ongoing monthly workshop with Sarah Arvio (via Zoom) There is nothing so beautiful as transforming a poem from a foreign language into your own language. In this class we will work on translating poems from any language into English. We will work on texts already translated, so as to […]
$450.00
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Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
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Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
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 […]
$320.00
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Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
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 […]
$320.00
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Memoir Writing Workshop (Weds PM) with Susan Hodara Via Zoom
Memoir Writing Workshop (Weds PM) with Susan Hodara Via Zoom
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 […]
$320.00
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Friday Night Playdate: An evening of kids’ games for adults with Josh Lewis
Friday Night Playdate: An evening of kids’ games for adults with Josh Lewis
Friday Night Playdate is a high energy, low stakes evening of kids’ games for adults. It’s about tapping into that child-like sense of joy and spontaneity too often lost to adulthood. Drawn from his years as a theater and improv teacher, camp, counselor, and team building leader, Josh Lewis’s workshops run the gamut from exhilarating […]
$20.00
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Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the Second Saturday of each month. This group will take place in HYBRID FORM, meaning that there will […]
$10.00
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The Ekphrastic Moment: Pictures Out of Words with Sharon Dolin (via Zoom)
The Ekphrastic Moment: Pictures Out of Words with Sharon Dolin (via Zoom)
This one-day intensive will be held on Sunday, January 15, 12:30-4:30 PM EST via Zoom. With images being central to so much poetry, visual art, the sister art to poetry, provides a rich storehouse of imagery for our poems. Using one reproduction or a series of reproductions, in this hands-on workshop, we try out different […]
$124.00
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Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
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Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, edited by C. Alexander & S. Massimilla, Anthology Reading with Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, Toi Derricotte, & Jane Hirshfield (via Zoom)
Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, edited by C. Alexander & S. Massimilla, Anthology Reading with Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, Toi Derricotte, & Jane Hirshfield (via Zoom)
Join editors Carol Alexander and Stephen Massimilla as they welcome award-winning poets Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, Toi Derricotte, & Jane Hirshfield from the new anthology Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice on Zoom. In this timely and timeless collection, remarkable poets—both emerging and established—bring myriad traditions, styles, and vital perspectives to […]
Free – $100.00
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Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner via Zoom
Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner via Zoom
This is a 6-week class meeting Wednesdays from 7 – 9pm (Eastern time), starting January 18 for six consecutive Wednesdays. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Login details will be sent via email from the instructor a few days before class begins. Please email [email protected] with questions. How long have you been saying […]
$270.00 – $320.00
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Pageturning Fiction Workshop with Joanne Dobson (via Zoom)
Pageturning Fiction Workshop with Joanne Dobson (via Zoom)
This multi-week class series will be taught on Zoom. It will start on Thursday, January 19 and end on February 23 for six consecutive Thursdays. If you’ve ever stayed up ‘til three with a compelling novel, you’ve probably wondered, “How do they do that?” Study the literary techniques of popular genres and learn how to create […]
$320.00
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Poetry Slam Open Mic (in person at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity)
Poetry Slam Open Mic (in person at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity)
Join us Thursday, January 19 at 7 PM for a Poetry Slam open mic! Bring your poems, your spoken word pieces, your raps All forms of poetry are welcome Up to 5 minutes per person This event is intended for performers aged 13-18. Light refreshments provided Tickets are $5 per person. All attendees will be […]
$5.00
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Game Night
Game Night
Join our community partner Into Leaf for our next Game Night on Thursday, Jan. 19! We’ll have some classic games on hand (Scrabble, Uno, cards, etc.) and welcome your contributions as well. Bring a friend or come make new ones —everyone is nice!—and don’t forget to BYOB because there will be snacks. Drop in anytime. […]
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Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
We are excited to hold Open Mic Night in hybrid form, both in-person at HVWC and virtually! Physical and virtual doors open at 7:20 pm for event starting at 7:30 pm. Due to popular demand to participate, we’ve had to limit the amount of readers to 20. All performers, whether “in person” or on Zoom, […]
Free – $5.00
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Laying the Foundation: Concrete Imagery in Poetry with Denise Duhamel (via Zoom)
Laying the Foundation: Concrete Imagery in Poetry with Denise Duhamel (via Zoom)
Using Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to things” (“Oda a las cosas”) as our maxim, we will explore arrivals to the sublime via naming and detail. William Carlos Williams wrote, “No ideas […]
$124.00
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Travel Writing and Social Justice: Dismantling the Inner Colonizer with Bani Amor (via Zoom)
Travel Writing and Social Justice: Dismantling the Inner Colonizer with Bani Amor (via Zoom)
Whether in memoir, guides, or fiction, travel literature has long preserved colonialist attitudes toward people and place. As contemporary writers and world storytellers who have inherited this tradition, we carry […]
$124.00
3 events,
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Intensive Hybridity Workshop with Chris Campanioni (via Zoom)
Intensive Hybridity Workshop with Chris Campanioni (via Zoom)
“Every life is the defense of a form,” wrote Susan Sontag in her notebook in March, 1979. “Form is the defense of every marginalized life,” I wrote in my notebook […]
$124.00
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Moving Mountains: Writing Epistolary Poems to Self, Others & the World with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
Moving Mountains: Writing Epistolary Poems to Self, Others & the World with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
The epistolary poem can be a unique & effective vessel to freedom: freedom to write what we have feared to say, freedom to address the mountains inside and outside of […]
$124.00
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David Means & Lauren Acampora: in conversation (in person at HVWC)
David Means & Lauren Acampora: in conversation (in person at HVWC)
Join novelist, Lauren Acampora (THE HUNDRED WATERS, Grove, 2022) in spirited conversation with David Means (TWO NURSES, SMOKING, FSG, 2022) as they discuss craft, the difference of writing novels vs stories, and their new projects. NB: This reading will take place in-person at HVWC. It will not be live-streamed on Zoom. Masks are strongly encouraged […]
Free – $100.00
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Monday Night Poetry Workshop with John James (via Zoom)
Monday Night Poetry Workshop with John James (via Zoom)
Creativity and Constraint: A Poetry Workshop This six-week workshop centers on three seemingly simple poetic forms — the ghazal, acrostics, and syllabic verse — to explore how poets manage the pressures of poetic constraint and utilize formal conflicts to pose questions and present ideas. By writing and workshopping their own poems, participants will explore how […]
$310.00 – $370.00
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Monday Night Poetry Workshop: Cathedral of Deadbolts: Unlocking Poems on Self & Family with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
Monday Night Poetry Workshop: Cathedral of Deadbolts: Unlocking Poems on Self & Family with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
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] How can we challenge ourselves to dig deep when it comes to the complexities of identity, our memories […]
$320.00
2 events,
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Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
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Bilingual Poetry Workshop with Silvina López Medin (via Zoom)
Bilingual Poetry Workshop with Silvina López Medin (via Zoom)
Over the course of this four-week workshop, we will read poems by 4 Latin American poets: Alejandra Pizarnik, Marosa di Giorgio, Adélia Prado, and Reina María Rodríguez. We will observe the formal elements of each poet’s work, and pay attention to which aspects resonate with the participants as they generate their own writing. The workshop […]
$250.00
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Writing Mystery and Suspense with Carol Goodman (via Zoom)
Writing Mystery and Suspense with Carol Goodman (via Zoom)
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] This course will run for six Wednesday evenings via Zoom, 6:30-8:30pm EST, January 25 - March 1. Mystery […]
$320.00
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2 events,
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Writing a Pantoum with Lauren Camp via Zoom
Writing a Pantoum with Lauren Camp via Zoom
The ancient pantoum is the ideal form for writing about the past. With a little direction, even uncertain writers are eased into shaping their crystalline memories, and more experienced writers will have the […]
$124.00
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Translations of Chinese Poems by American Poets Since Pound: a Craft Class by Wang Jiaxin (via Zoom)
Translations of Chinese Poems by American Poets Since Pound: a Craft Class by Wang Jiaxin (via Zoom)
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 […]
$124.00
4 events,
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A Kind of Haunting: A Prose Workshop with Cynthia Cruz (via Zoom)
A Kind of Haunting: A Prose Workshop with Cynthia Cruz (via Zoom)
The place of interest, then, this corner between literature and truth, will form a certain angle. It will be a figure of folding back, of the angle ensured by a […]
$124.00
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Memoir Writing Intensive with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
Memoir Writing Intensive with Susan Hodara (via Zoom)
Are you inspired to write about the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances surrounding your most vivid memories? For those with a work-in-progress or those starting fresh, this four-hour class will offer a supportive environment where we’ll be talking about memoir writing, writing in class and sharing for constructive […]
$124.00
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Write, Write, Write!: A Fiction Workshop for Teens with Tina Tocco (via Zoom)
Write, Write, Write!: A Fiction Workshop for Teens with Tina Tocco (via Zoom)
We’re happy to present another installment in this writing series for teens! Returning students are welcomed back for new prompts and new discussion. New students are encouraged to join Tina’s fun and engaging classes at any time. Do you love to write fiction? Would you like to generate new work week after week? Would it […]
$150.00 – $175.00
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An Afternoon with Sharon Dolin, Stephen Massimilla, Miller Oberman, & Elaine Sexton (via Zoom)
An Afternoon with Sharon Dolin, Stephen Massimilla, Miller Oberman, & Elaine Sexton (via Zoom)
Join us on Zoom as we welcome Sharon Dolin, Stephen Massimilla, Miller Oberman, and Elaine Sexton as they read from their latest poetry collections. Sharon Dolin is an award-winning American poet, translator, essayist, memoirist, and aphorist, who teaches poetry workshops in New York City and Barcelona, Spain. She is the author of six poetry collections, most […]
Free – $100.00
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Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
2 events,
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Shac Snack Attack Hour (in person at HVWC)
Grab your kids and some snacks and join us for this weekly drop-in concert/dance party/free-play/snack break! Brought to you compliments of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center, The SHAC SNACK-ATTACK HOUR gives children and their caregivers the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and snack in a fun, relaxed atmosphere with live musical accompaniment provided by local and visiting […]
Free
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SHP Presents: An Evening with Spencer Reece, Ashley M. Jones, & Rick Mulkey (via Zoom)
SHP Presents: An Evening with Spencer Reece, Ashley M. Jones, & Rick Mulkey (via Zoom)
Slapering Hol Press welcomes you for this wonderful reading. It will take place on Zoom. The link will be sent to the email that you use to register as soon as you reserve a spot. (Please check your spam folder and save the link to your calendar.) It will also be sent to you the […]
Free – $100.00
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The Textum: A Poetry Workshop with Cynthia Cruz (via Zoom)
The Textum: A Poetry Workshop with Cynthia Cruz (via Zoom)
In Walter Benjamin’s essay “Some Motifs in Baudelaire” he describes a type of writing, an amalgamation, resulting from voluntary and involuntary memory: facts and data from remembered, or conscious, memory […]
$124.00