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Upcoming Events

  • Monday Night Poetry with Jane Huffman (via Zoom)
    Monday Night Poetry with Jane Huffman (via Zoom)
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    Monday Night Poetry with Jane Huffman (via Zoom)
    Mon, Jan 13
    Online
    Jan 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Online
    Jan 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Online
    In this six-week workshop, students will share one new or revised poem with the group every week with the goal of developing it further through meaningful close reading, analysis, and conversation.
  • Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Membership Offer
    Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Tue, Jan 14
    Zoom
    Jan 14, 2025, 10:25 AM – 12:45 PM
    Zoom
    Jan 14, 2025, 10:25 AM – 12:45 PM
    Zoom
    This workshop is SOLD OUT
  • How to Improve Your Memoir or Personal Essays by Balancing Scene and Exposition (via Zoom) with David McLoghlin
    How to Improve Your Memoir or Personal Essays by Balancing Scene and Exposition (via Zoom) with David McLoghlin
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    How to Improve Your Memoir or Personal Essays by Balancing Scene and Exposition (via Zoom) with David McLoghlin
    Wed, Jan 15
    Online
    Jan 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Online
    Jan 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Online
    This is a class for writers who are beginning or revising a project, whether memoir, personal essays, a travel book or some other room in the capacious genre known as creative nonfiction.
  • Writing Mystery and Suspense with Carol Goodman (via Zoom)
    Writing Mystery and Suspense with Carol Goodman (via Zoom)
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    Writing Mystery and Suspense with Carol Goodman (via Zoom)
    Wed, Jan 15
    Online
    Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Online
    Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Online
    Mystery is at the heart of every story.  Whether you want to write mystery, suspense, general fiction—or you don’t know what you’re writing yet—mystery provides the engine to drive a compelling narrative.
  • Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
    Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
    Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
    Fri, Jan 17
    Online
    Jan 17, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Online
    Jan 17, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Online
  • How to Grapple with Trauma in Poems with Eve Grubin (via Zoom)
    How to Grapple with Trauma in Poems with Eve Grubin (via Zoom)
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    How to Grapple with Trauma in Poems with Eve Grubin (via Zoom)
    Sun, Jan 19
    Online
    Jan 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – Jan 20, 2025, 2:30 AM
    Online
    Jan 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – Jan 20, 2025, 2:30 AM
    Online
    How do poets write about the trauma? Why and how do they employ such strategies as fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetition to address a subject that is not bearable?
  • Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner: Spring Session (via Zoom)
    Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner: Spring Session (via Zoom)
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    Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner: Spring Session (via Zoom)
    Tue, Jan 21
    Online
    Jan 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Online
    Jan 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Online
    How long have you been planning on writing a book—or finishing the book you started? Let 2025 be the year you do it!
  • An Evening with Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin & Dzvinia Orlowsky (via Zoom)
    An Evening with Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin & Dzvinia Orlowsky (via Zoom)
    An Evening with Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin & Dzvinia Orlowsky (via Zoom)
    Wed, Jan 22
    Online
    Jan 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Online
    Jan 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Online
  • Deep Revisioning – Multi-Disciplinary Workshop with Leah Souffrant (via Zoom)
    Deep Revisioning – Multi-Disciplinary Workshop with Leah Souffrant (via Zoom)
    Deep Revisioning – Multi-Disciplinary Workshop with Leah Souffrant (via Zoom)
    Sat, Jan 25
    Online
    Jan 25, 2025, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Online
    Jan 25, 2025, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Online
  • Wednesday Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Wednesday Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Wednesday Memoir with Susan Hodara
    Sat, Jan 25
    Zoom
    Jan 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Zoom
    Jan 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Zoom
    This workshop is SOLD OUT
  • “Shut Up and Kiss Me”: The Art of the Short Poem with Kim Addonizio (via Zoom)
    “Shut Up and Kiss Me”: The Art of the Short Poem with Kim Addonizio (via Zoom)
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    “Shut Up and Kiss Me”: The Art of the Short Poem with Kim Addonizio (via Zoom)
    Sun, Jan 26
    Online
    Jan 26, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Online
    Jan 26, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Online
    In this craft class, in which I’ll also invite you to do some writing, we’ll look at a few short pieces to see how they accomplish their effects, and aim for some effects of our own.
  • An Afternoon with Bernhard Schlink (in person at HVWC & via Zoom)
    An Afternoon with Bernhard Schlink (in person at HVWC & via Zoom)
    An Afternoon with Bernhard Schlink (in person at HVWC & via Zoom)
    Sun, Jan 26
    Online
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
    Online
    Jan 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
    Online
    Join us in person at HVWC or live streamed on Zoom as we welcome Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) as he reads from his brand new book, The Granddaughter.
  • HVWC Presents: Masters of Craft Poetry Series with Dorianne Laux, Afaa M. Weaver, Gregory Pardlo, Jane Hirshfield & Dian
    HVWC Presents: Masters of Craft Poetry Series with Dorianne Laux, Afaa M. Weaver, Gregory Pardlo, Jane Hirshfield & Dian
    HVWC Presents: Masters of Craft Poetry Series with Dorianne Laux, Afaa M. Weaver, Gregory Pardlo, Jane Hirshfield & Dian
    Thu, Jan 30
    Zoom
    Jan 30, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Zoom
    Jan 30, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Zoom
    Each poet will share the insights about craft that they have gleaned from decades of devoting themselves to studying the art of poetry.
  • Tiny Texts: Short Poems, Flash Fiction, Micro-Diaries with Nicole Cooley (via Zoom)
    Tiny Texts: Short Poems, Flash Fiction, Micro-Diaries with Nicole Cooley (via Zoom)
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    Tiny Texts: Short Poems, Flash Fiction, Micro-Diaries with Nicole Cooley (via Zoom)
    Sat, Feb 01
    Online
    Feb 01, 2025, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Online
    Feb 01, 2025, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Online
    This craft class will focus on miniatures, tiny texts that play with language in wonderful, fun ways and at the same time ask us to rethink our ideas about reading and writing. 
  • “Okay, Boomer!”: Writing Poetry at Mid-Life (& Beyond) with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
    “Okay, Boomer!”: Writing Poetry at Mid-Life (& Beyond) with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
    Membership Offer
    “Okay, Boomer!”: Writing Poetry at Mid-Life (& Beyond) with Joan Kwon Glass (via Zoom)
    Sun, Feb 02
    Online
    Feb 02, 2025, 12:30 AM – 4:30 AM
    Online
    Feb 02, 2025, 12:30 AM – 4:30 AM
    Online
    In this generative class, we will read & write about aging & reflect upon the past with humor, authenticity & earned perspective. What have we learned & what do we not yet understand?
  • Submission Sunday
    Submission Sunday
    Submission Sunday
    Sun, Feb 02
    Zoom
    Feb 02, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Zoom
    Feb 02, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Zoom
  • Writing Psychology, Obsession, and Interiority with Austyn Wohlers (via Zoom)
    Writing Psychology, Obsession, and Interiority with Austyn Wohlers (via Zoom)
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    Writing Psychology, Obsession, and Interiority with Austyn Wohlers (via Zoom)
    Tue, Feb 04
    Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Zoom
    Feb 04, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Zoom
  • Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
    Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
    Open Write (in person & via Zoom)
    Sat, Feb 08
    Hybrid and In Person
    Feb 08, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Hybrid and In Person
    Feb 08, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Hybrid and In Person
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