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HVWC Reads: Our Narrow Hiding Places, a new book club hosted by Jonathan Vatner (via Zoom)

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Join HVWC Year of Your Book Faculty Member, Jonathan Vatner, for the second event of HVWC Reads where our community reads four books of prose a year and meets to discuss them prior to an in person reading at HVWC. This installment, on Wednesday December 4th will feature the novel, Our Narrow Hiding Places (HarperCollins, 2024) by Kristopher Jansma. NB: The Book Club discussion is free on Zoom for our community. (Donations towards our readings series honoraria are greatly appreciated!) Come to our book club discussion with Jonathan […]

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Book Signing with MacKenzie Cadenhead, Ghost-Spider’s Unbreakable Mission

Picture Book, Dobbs Ferry, New York 145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, Dobbs Ferry, NY, United States

Join us at Picture Book inside HudCo for a special book signing event with local author MacKenzie Cadenhead as she celebrates the release of her new chapter book, Ghost-Spider's Unbreakable Mission! MacKenzie, a friend of our community and an author whose work has captured the hearts of readers everywhere, will be signing copies of her latest book. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to her work, this is an event you won’t want to miss! About the Book: Ghost-Spider's […]

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Raising Resilience: Help Your Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty With Tovah P. Klein PhD

Shames JCC on the Hudson 371 South Broadway, Tarrytown

How can parents help children thrive in an uncertain world? Renowned child development psychologist Dr. Tovah Klein’s work explores how parents can help children build resilience to adapt, handle life’s challenges, and have confidence and compassion when confronted with adversity and stress. In this talk, Dr. Klein will outline the “Five Pillars of Resilience” explored in her best-selling book, providing concrete, evidence-based strategies to help parents understand their children’s current needs, foster strong relationships, and support their healthy growth and […]

$40 – $45

An Evening of New Poetry with Catherine Barnett, Malachi Black, and Ishion Hutchinson (In Person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writer's Center 300 River­side Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, and Sophia Bannister, as we welcome Catherine Barnett, Malachi Black, and Ishion Hitchinson as they read from their new collections. Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, Human Hours, winner of the Believer Book Award, and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in New York City and teaches at NYU. Malachi Black is the author of Indirect Light, Four Way […]

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HVWC Published Student Reading with Roxanne Cardona, B. Fulton Jennes, Bonnie LeVar, Linda Puner, Alice Campbell Romano, & Harriet Shenkman (Via Zoom)

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Join Susan Hodara & Jennifer Franklin as they welcome their recenlty published hvwcpubstudentstudents to read for the semi-annual HVWC Published Student Reading. Four poets and poets and two prose writers will read from their new work. Roxanne Cardona was born in New York City of Puerto Rican descent. She earned her BA in Theatre Arts and her MS in Education from Hunter College, another MS in Educational Administration from the College of New Rochelle. For many years, she was a principal […]

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HVWC Fall Student Reading (Via Zoom)

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Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister on Zoom as we welocme some of the studnets who enrolled in the HVWC writing classes and want to share their work with the community! If you are interested in reading, please register for a reader ticket if you are a fall HVWC Student. 25 Students will each have three minutes to read. Everyone else who wants to attend the reading is welcome to register for a free audience ticket. Donations to HVWC are welcome and appreciated.

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An Afternoon with New Poetry with Nicole Cooley, Karen Finley & Kimiko Hahn

Hudson Valley Writer's Center 300 River­side Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Nicole Cooley is the author of six books of poems, including Of Marriage and Girl after Girl after Girl. Her first book, Resurrection, won the Walt Whitman Award. Raised in New Orleans, Cooley is professor of English in the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY, and lives outside of New York City with her family. Karen Finley is an artist, performer, and poet. Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Finley was the named plaintiff for […]

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An Afternoon of Prose with Tyler Wetherall & Krystal Anali Vazquez (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writer's Center 300 River­side Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Tyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel, Amphibian, was released in 2024. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, British Vogue, The Guardian, National Geographic, LitHub, Vice, and Condé Nast Traveler, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook, Good Life Project, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator […]

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An Afternoon of New Poetry with Bridget Bell, Matthew Gellman, Jennifer Jean & Michelle Whittaker (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writer's Center 300 River­side Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Bridget Bell teaches composition and literature at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, North Carolina. All that We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy is her debut poetry collection. Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of the 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2024. A 2023–2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Matthew has also received awards and honors from Brooklyn Poets, Adroit Journal’s Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, […]

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