Intensive Workshops

Sat, Apr 18
Polishing Your Prose with Jonathan Vatner: (Zoom)
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Apr 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Zoom
In this two-hour master class on refining prose, you'll learn a dozen ways to make your sentences crisper and more dazzling, based on common errors and missteps observed over years of teaching and editing.
Thu, Apr 23
Conversations in Craft with Maggie Smith (Zoom)
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Apr 23, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Zoom
The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring award-winning writers & beloved teachers.
Sat, May 02
The Body as a Doorway into Mystery with Brian Turner (Zoom)
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May 02, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Zoom
In this generative workshop, we’ll consider the body as a space and as a doorway into tenderness, wonder, compassion, surprise, struggle, reverence, mystery, and more.
Sat, May 16
The Difference Between Essays, Creative Nonfiction & Memoir with Jocelyn Jane Cox (Zoom)
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May 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Zoom
Participants will come away with a better understanding of how these types of personal writing overlap, and what publications accept these kinds of submissions.
Sat, May 16
Ekphrastic Poetry and Prose: Letting Art Inspire Your Writing with Shannon Kearns (Zoom)
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May 16, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Zoom
In this two-hour generative class, we will explore how visual art can inspire and inform our writing.
Sat, May 23
Poetic Form as a Means of Revision with Trevor Ketner (Zoom)
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May 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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We will work together to understand how to see poetic forms not as restrictive, prescriptive rulesets that limit creativity, but as launch pads and sandboxes for revising our poems.
Sun, May 24
Blueprints & Floor Plans: How to Read the Architecture of a Poetry Collection with H. E. Fisher and Mary Lou Buschi
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May 24, 2026, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Zoom
Much like a cathedral—or a concept album—this Zoom class focuses on studying how collections are constructed: sections, no sections, center-hinge, single concept, and so on.
Thu, May 28
Conversations in Craft with Camille Dungy (Zoom)
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May 28, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Zoom
The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring award-winning writers & beloved teachers.

Multi-Week Workshops

Tue, Apr 14
Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara (HYBRID)
HYBRID
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Apr 14, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:45 PM
HYBRID
To be added to Susan Hodara's Memoir waitlist, please email dominika@writerscenter.org.
Tue, Apr 14
Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (HYBRID)
HYBRID
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Apr 14, 2026, 1:15 PM – 3:30 PM
HYBRID
To be put on Susan Hodara's Memoir waitlist, please email dominika@writerscenter.org.
Tue, Apr 14
Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (HYBRID)
HYBRID
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Apr 14, 2026, 1:15 PM – 3:30 PM
HYBRID
Wed, Apr 15
How to Improve Your Memoir or Personal Essays by Balancing Scene and Exposition with David McLoghlin (Zoom)
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Apr 15, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom
This is an 8-week class for writers who are beginning or revising a project, whether memoir or a collection of personal essays.
Wed, Apr 15
Wednesday Memoir with Susan Hodara (Zoom)
ZOOM
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Apr 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
ZOOM
To be added to Susan Hodara's Memoir waitlist, please email dominika@writerscenter.org.
Wed, Apr 15
Gratitude Poetics: A Six-Week Generative Poetry Workshop with Tova Greene (Zoom)
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Apr 15, 2026, 6:45 PM – 8:45 PM
Zoom
This six-week generative poetry workshop explores gratitude as a necessary poetic practice—one rooted in attention, reciprocity, & witness.
Tue, Apr 21
The Book of Ruth: Gleanings from Many Corners with Jessica Greenbaum
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Apr 21, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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These two evenings (April 21 and 28) will pair our close reading of (the speedy) Book of Ruth with diverse, contemporary poems that reflect, refract, expand or argue with the messages and themes of the text.
Thu, Apr 23
Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (Zoom)
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Apr 23, 2026, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom
Whether writing in a garret, ivory tower, pandemic lockdown or a fever pitch of blind faith, at some point writers need a hothouse workshop environment in which to appraise and develop their work. Participants will test chapters or extracts from their novels and memoirs or short stories and essays.