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.
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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 […]
What are your feelings about the climate crisis? How does this affect your understanding of the world? What is nature when everything seems unnatural? How do we process this peculiar anxiety and grief productively? This generative writing workshop led by Jared Beloff, the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head, will attempt to answer these […]
Join the HVWC staff as we welcome two debut novelists, Richard Mirabella & Ben Purkert) with highly-anticipated books out this summer. Richard Mirabella is a writer and civil servant living […]
A generation ago, Bertold Brecht claimed that to talk about a tree was a betrayal because it was to be silent about injustice. Now a "nature" poem cuts to our survival and the most intimate meanings of justice. We will look at poems that see "nature" from radically different angles --the Biblical view that we […]