Summer Workshops Preview

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 with my writing and my routine. I programmed HVWC’s summer offerings with those summer routines in mind.

If you’re looking to establish a writing practice that you can maintain well past the summer

season, check out Josh Krigman’s Writing Past the Page. Having a hard time starting poetry or prose? Radhika Sharma’s Creating Dazzling Beginnings can offer helpful tips and advice. If you’re ready to devote the summer to your full-length poetry manuscript, Trevor Ketner still has a few open spots in his Full Manuscript Poetry Workshop—but those spots are going quickly.

As always, we are offering multi-week generative poetry workshops, like Ayesha Raees’ And What is Love? Dismantling the Beloved, and Tina Cane’s The Art of the Series Poem. For 4 weeks in August, join Eve Grubin for Poetry and Urgency.

For those of you able to join us in person, you don’t want to miss Jan Greenfield’s all-ages

Stories Across Generations: A Jewish Poetry and Prose Workshop, or Ivy Raff’s Writing From the Bottom of the Mind, a half-day generative writing workshop where participants learn and hone a Zen approach to writing.

If you were looking forward to getting all of the insider publishing, editing, and industry

information, fear not. Our Summer Publishing Series is back and gets underway mid-June.

We’ll send out a separate notification about it in a few days so you can get the sessions on your calendars. You’ll be able to sign up for individual sessions—or for the full series.

This June-August, I hope you join me in investing in your creativity and your writing practice.

Many thanks for your support,

Dominika Wrozynski, HVWC Program Director