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!
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 […]
The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM beginning April 5 Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and […]
Please join Jennifer Franklin & Darren Wood as they welcome five amazing poets to The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry for the 14th annual Westchester Poetry Festival. The readings will begin at 1pm and will end at 4. The event is free and open to the public. Any donations towards the honoraria for the six […]
An evening of interactive magic at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Presented by Noah Levine. Noah Levine (Magic After Hours, Speakeasy Magick, The Magic Castle) presents a night of conjuring at HVWC (the old Philipse Manor Station). In this intimate, atmospheric space, stories of coincidence will be interwoven with expert sleight-of-hand and psychological misdirection as […]
In A Little Book on Form, Robert Hass names one definition of poetic form as the “external shape” of a poem. How do we utilize that first moment of encounter—when the reader first approaches the page, seeing the poem before they read it—to communicate meaning? In this craft class, we’ll explore the visual decisions that […]
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 […]
We live in a time of always more, always faster, a time of disembodied screen-living where what’s new insists on itself as what’s most important—a culture built to help us pretend death is something for other people. But outside this frenzy are questions that demand slow pondering, queries old as human consciousness: Why are we […]
Please join us IN PERSON at HVWC in Sleepy Hollow, NY, for an afternoon of poetry & conversation with Jessica Jacobs, Tyler Mills, & Emily Hockaday. Jessica Jacobs is the author of UNALONE, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way […]
Join us in person at the Hudson Valley Writers Center to kick off National Poetry Month with local poets Ivy Raff, Timothy Liu, & Bryan Monte as they read from their most recent books. Books will be available for purchase on site. Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains / Qué queda (Editorial DALYA, forthcoming 2024), a bilingual […]
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 […]
The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]
NB: This class will be capped at 15 people. Please read all our course policies before registering for a class. 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 […]
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 […]
When it comes to revision habits, Time and Procrastination don’t need to be your worst enemies. Sometimes the best thing to do after you’ve written a draft is to put it immediately aside–and then not come back to it for many moons, even years! This workshop will seek to bring new light and energy to […]
Join us IN PERSON at HVWC on Sunday, April 14, at 4 PM ET to hear poetry and conversation with Patricia Spears Jones, Peter Covino, & E.J. Antonio. Patricia Spears Jones is a poet, playwright, anthologist, educator, and cultural activist. She is the winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers and […]
Join us in celebrating the release of the second edition of this deep and playful book! Francesca will share about her journey of writing it, read a bit, answer questions and lead us in an exercise or two from the book. You can buy a book for $20 at the event. Bulk pricing available for […]
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 […]
The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]
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, […]
Inspired by recent cultural discourse on the complex power of friendship, this multi-genre generative workshop explores a variety of approaches to writing about/from friendship. We’ll start with a discussion of Mary Ruefle’s Pushcart Prize-winning essay “Dear Friends” (one of her best, most moving prose pieces, I think) before taking a look at a handful of […]
Join Jennifer Franklin for an afternoon of prose as she welcomes Lynn Schmeidler, Ananda Lima, and Carol Mitchell for a reading and Q&A about their new books. Lynn Schmeidler is the author of Half-Lives (March 2024) which was selected by Matt Bell as the winner of the 2023 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Fiction. Her […]
Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the FOURTH MONDAY of each month. This month's theme: Celebration Your host Sarah Rizzuto will facilitate an evening of generative writing, story swapping and community building via ZOOM Open Write is $10 or FREE to members. If you are a member you […]
Monday Night Poetry with Joan Kwon Glass: The World Has Ended Many Times: Writing Poems In the Wake of Trauma & Tragedy In her book SALT, Nayyirah Waheed writes: “I don't pay attention to the / world ending. / it has ended for me / many times / and began again in the morning.” For […]
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 […]
The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and capped at 15 students. You will receive the link as soon as you register to the email you give us. Please read our course policies page before signing up for any class. Students are invited to bring a poem of any kind, in any form, to […]
Embark on a poetic journey as we celebrate the Westchester 30-Day Poetry Challenge. This initiative celebrates creativity and community, led by the Poet Laureate of Westchester County, Phylisha Villanueva. Join us on April 27th from 6 pm to 8 pm for a captivating in-person poetry reading at the Hudson Valley Writer Center in partnership with […]
Letters are intimate correspondences between senders and recipients. They are rich with the obsessions, conflicts, and confidences of shared private lives. In this class, we will study how some contemporary writers use letters as a literary device to illuminate relationships, slant perspectives, and play with revelation and tension in their stories. We will also discuss […]
Please join hosts Sally Bliumis Dunn and Estha Weiner in person on Sunday, April 28, 4 PM at HVWC in Sleepy Hollow, NY, for Poetry and Conversation with Tom Sleigh and Daniel Lawless. Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including his most recent book, The King’s Touch, winner of the Paterson […]
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] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
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] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” ~ Emile Zola What I’ve learned over my years in education and publishing, is something I likely knew innately and that led me down my career path – everyone has a story to tell. […]
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] Are you inspired to record the transforming events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances […]
This six-session workshop will meet weekly on Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM ET via Zoom, from May 1-June 5 Short stories are like small dogs — they pack a lot of energy and personality into their small forms and are superbly suited to burrowing down after one particular goal. Short stories are also an excellent way to […]
In Pure Critique we range far and wide in our discussions. To give you a sense of the creative fervor, the maelstrom of imaginative popcorn, the synaptic jumps and quantum leaps, the sheer headburn of lightbulbs going on and topics leaping fro and to, here's a sample of subjects that have come under scrutiny, the microscope, and […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
A workshop focusing on generating fiction by utilizing prompts drawn from fairy tales and other sources. We will be generating flash stories or the beginnings of stories in this workshop, will read a fairy tale, and a few examples of flash fiction by people like Kathy Fish, Lydia Davis, and Kathryn Scanlan. We will start […]
An evening of interactive magic at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. Presented by Noah Levine. Noah Levine (Magic After Hours, Speakeasy Magick, The Magic Castle) presents a night of conjuring at HVWC (the old Philipse Manor Station). In this intimate, atmospheric space, stories of coincidence will be interwoven with expert sleight-of-hand and psychological misdirection as […]