dominika1721

Dear HVWC Community, In June 2025, HVWC hosted its first-ever Writing Residency, in partnership with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Pocantico Center. Sixteen writers and four award-winning faculty members (Chen Chen, Nick Flynn, Ananda Lima, and Brian Turner) lived and wrote in community for one week on Pocantico’s verdant and historic campus in Tarrytown, NY. This June, the faculty and residents gathered for a first-ever virtual Residency Reunion Weekend. Residents wrote with the...

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Dear HVWC Community, As a long-time college professor, I always relished the last of spring’s grading, commencements, and student celebrations because I knew summer was coming. Summer, for me, meant time to dig into my own writing—to set a writing schedule that felt less harried and more meaningful than it did during my school year. Though being your Program Director is a year-round job, there is still something about the coming summer months that makes me crave a different summer engagement...