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.
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 […]
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 fold. —Jacques Derrida, from “The Double Session” In this generative prose writing workshop, we will examine the different ways in which writing can allow […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 and the haze of memory lost, or the unconscious. This web or textum, the result of writing that weaves these two types of memory, also […]
Submission Sundays is a free service to members of HVWC. Space is limited so please reserve your spot. This group will meet online via Zoom. The host will email the Zoom link in the day leading up to the event. Please email [email protected] with any questions. One Sunday a month, 12:30-2:30 pm. Join host M.A. Scott for two hours […]
This master class will focus on three essential aspects of nonfiction writing (which are seldom talked about in combination), presented clearly and dynamically by a renowned teacher. There will be models, analysis and discussion. There will be Q&A, practices to try on your own, and reading recommendations. Maybe you’re thinking of getting serious about your […]
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] Midrash writing is a modern adaptation of an ancient rabbinic form–retelling some of the compelling stories in the […]
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 […]
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they encourage […]
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 […]
Memories of places and languages are sometimes easy to access—but sometimes feel like foreign territory, especially when they are our own. In this generative poetry workshop, writers will use fragments, bits of memory, phrases and images to construct conversations across time and space—across places one has been, across one’s past and future selves. I welcome […]
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 participants in person at HVWC as well as joining on the big screen via Zoom. Your hosts Michelle Thomas and Cassie Cartaginese will facilitate an […]
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 […]
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Wednesdays 12:30-3:00pm, starting Wednesday February 15th and ending Wednesday April 5th. NB: no class on March 8 (AWP), no class on March 15. 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, […]
Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they welcome Cynthia Manick, Yesenia Montilla, Sonia Greenfield, and Kiki Petrosino to read from their latest books—three poetry collections and a memoir. NB: This reading will take place on Zoom and is free and open to the public. Donations towards the poets' honoraria are welcome as is buying […]
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, […]
Natalie Tsur and Mariah Lanzer will facilitate a meeting of generative writing, as well as an informal exchange between attendees' writing experiences, practices, and recent reads. In doing so, we hope to cultivate an intimate writing community (at no cost!) with the participation of other writers their age (18-25). Therefore, the Young Adult Open Write […]
World Building 101 (4-Day Intensive) February 21-24, 2023 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Grades 3-6 $200 Do you love reading adventure books with fantastical settings and magical elements? Have you ever wanted to write a story set in a place you’ve never been? Through this workshop, students will understand the layout of the land within their stories, no […]
Fiction Fun! (4-Day Intensive) February 21-24, 2023 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM Grades 3-7 $200 Have you always wanted to write stories? Or written so many stories and don’t know what to do with them? This workshop provides young writers a space to bring forth their creativity, explore new stories, and meet friends with the same […]
Join writer, editor, and HVWC instructor, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond as she discusses putting together her incredible anthology, Relations. Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth […]
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Fridays 10:30am-1:00pm, starting Friday February 24th and ending Friday April 14th. NB: no class on March 10 (AWP), no class on March 17. 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, […]
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 […]
The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate the creative process and bring forth new work. Class will include a series of exercises designed to evoke our own obsessions in surprising ways. Students will write intensively and leave with several drafts for new poems. NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be […]
In this creative writing workshop Finley will create prompts to reflect and process loss, grief and remembrance. Remembering those we loved and lost, reflecting with humor and poetic grace. Sometimes there is a moment of connection, correction, or to be kept at a distance, ambiguity or goodbye to a forgotten self. Ancestors, occasions, and our body […]
Sometimes our best words, lines, and phrases are keeping the poem from blooming. How can we take a fresh look at our writing to find the poem under the poem? Revision can feel overwhelming, particularly for emerging writers, but having strategies and tools for what to do can rejuvenate any poetry project. Join me for a […]
We are thrilled to welcome Claudia Rankine and Emily Skillings to read on Zoom for the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Please join us on Zoom for this very special event! This reading is a fundraiser for HVWC and your support is much appreciated. All reading registrants will be entered to win a copy of the […]
SHAC SKETCH & IMPROV COMEDY CLASS Hone your comedic talents at the SHAC SKETCH & IMPROV COMEDY CLASS, the class that brings together the Hudson Valley’s best and brightest 4th and 5th grade comedic minds to create their own live improv and sketch comedy show! AGE GROUP: 4th and 5th grade TIME: Wednesdays, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM DURATION: 12 […]
GAMETIME at The SHAC is a high energy, low stakes evening of kids’ games for adults presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Center (The SHAC). 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, […]