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 a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Wednesdays 12:30-3:00pm, starting Wednesday May 31 and ending Wednesday July 5. 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 […]
Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]
This a 6-week class meeting on Zoom, Fridays 10:30-1:00pm, starting Friday June 2 and ending Friday July 7. 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 […]
The Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective presents The SHAC JUVIE JAM – an evening of music performed by local musical youth. From pop songs to surf songs to showtunes to funk, the JUVIE JAM is an opportunity for area kids to showcase their own unique musical passions for an enthusiastic and supportive audience. This event will […]
Saturday, June 3rd 10:30am-12pm Free and In-Person Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to host this FREE Children's Book Fair, featuring local authors. All families are welcome to join us to browse books, make crafts, and meet local authors! Featured authors include: Alise Curran, Nana Will Say Yes Mona Voelkel, Stanley and the Wild Words […]
This lecture-style presentation will offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, sectioning, and titling a full-length poetry manuscript. We will glean insights about these elements of craft from a wide range of published collections, which include Julianna Baggott’s 'Lizzie Borden in Love', Lucie Brock Broido’s 'The Master Letters', Shane McCrae’s 'In the Language […]
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 […]
Join us in person at the Hudson Valley Writers Center or live on Zoom as we welcome Jessica Cuello, Matt Donovan, and Jennifer Martelli as they read from their most recent collections. This reading is the launch of our HVWC Summer Reading Series! Masks are encouraged but not required. Tickets are free but donations towards […]
Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]
Join Alicia Ostriker on Saturday, June 10, for a workshop on writing what you didn't expect to write! This 4hour intensive class is designed to stretch participants’ imaginations by giving you a sequence of provocative prompts of very various kinds, and very short writing times so as to short-circuit your cerebral controls and free what […]
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 […]
How do we make poems of a collective memory? Poetry creates formal order out of emotional disorderliness. In this intensive workshop, we will read poems on the complexities of family life, paying close attention to the decisions poets make of childhood, loss, inheritance, and unexpected renewal. We will then use our study of poems as […]
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 a responsibility to challenge the colonizer within in order to present our work in more just ways. In this four-hour course, travel writer and lecturer […]
Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]
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 an afternoon 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 […]
Imagine a duck gliding across a pristine lake, following the currents, nibbling at specks on the surface. Suddenly, it dives down, disappearing from view, and resurfaces minutes later to resume its journey. Join me and fellow writers on a shared journey to dive deep down to explore the essential themes of your life's stories that […]
In “Remake It, Don’t Break It” we’ll explore imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks. Our practice will employ the craft of lineated poetry and traditional narrative, including attention to language, syntax, and sound; rhythmic or imagistic patterning; repetition; precision; compression. The intersection of poetry and prose offers a range of possibilities […]
Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]
In this workshop, open to prose writers and poets of all ages and backgrounds, participants will use freewriting, revision, and in-depth feedback as tools to create work that can spark new writing possibilities or build on an existing project. The class will address these types of questions: How do we synthesize our experiences and histories with acts […]
HVWC is thrilled to present this poetry workshop for LGBTQIA+ youth! This one-day intensive is available by scholarship only. It will be capped at 25 students once we hit the limit. You can register below. We’ll start our workshop with participants sharing a poem they love written by another poet. Each person that shares will […]
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 […]
Let me be a Garden: Rainbow Glimmer Shimmer Karen Finley guides a series of multiple, unique prompts to inspire and deepen your creative poetic practice. June is the season of the garden and celebration. We will consider the garden as metaphor, illusion, nature. We will consider aspects of June - memories, photographs, traditions, sea shores, celebrations. […]