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Event Series Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

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

I like to think of a first draft as the block of marble we’ve dragged up from the quarry into our studio. The first draft might be roughly the size and shape of our story but without revision, we cannot bring out the unique qualities that will cause a story to leap off the page and grab a reader by the throat. In this class we will use generative exercises to create new work and lovingly workshop stories so we can […]

Event Series Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

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

I like to think of a first draft as the block of marble we’ve dragged up from the quarry into our studio. The first draft might be roughly the size and shape of our story but without revision, we cannot bring out the unique qualities that will cause a story to leap off the page and grab a reader by the throat. In this class we will use generative exercises to create new work and lovingly workshop stories so we can […]

Open Write (via Zoom ONLY)

via ZOOM

Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly. Your hosts Cassie Cartaginese and Cassie Valencia will facilitate an evening of generative writing, story swapping and community building. April's Open Write will take place the FIRST Saturday and via Zoom only.   Open Write is $10 or FREE to members. If you are a member you should have received a coupon code you can apply at checkout so this event cost will deduct to zero. Don’t […]

Poetry of the Wild with Ana Flores (In Person at HVWC)

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

Poetry of the Wild is an environmental art project created by Ana Flores that has travelled throughout the United States since 2003. The core of the project is focused on the creation of poetry boxes made by the community and then installed as a trail through the local landscape. Each box includes a poem, often featuring local writers, plus a journal. The poets involved in the project through the years have been both published and unpublished, ages 9 through eighty […]

Submission Sunday

via ZOOM

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 the day of the event.   One Sunday a month, 12:30-2:30 pm. Join host Anne Graue for two hours of insider information on where and how to send your best work to literary journals. Members can reserve a seat at the table of like-minded writers with a room of […]

Event Series Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

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

I like to think of a first draft as the block of marble we’ve dragged up from the quarry into our studio. The first draft might be roughly the size and shape of our story but without revision, we cannot bring out the unique qualities that will cause a story to leap off the page and grab a reader by the throat. In this class we will use generative exercises to create new work and lovingly workshop stories so we can […]

Introduction to Theater Improvisation with Shannon Stowe (In Person at HVWC)

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

Boost your confidence and fire up your creativity!  Join us for an afternoon of theatre improvisation in person at the Hudson Valley Writers Center.    Using a variety of theater games and exercises, participants will be introduced to some of the basic concepts of improvisation for the theater.  No previous experience required!  While this is an introductory workshop, all levels are welcome. This experience is for everyone.   Shannon Stowe joined the faculty at The New School in 2015, creating […]

Event Series Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

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

I like to think of a first draft as the block of marble we’ve dragged up from the quarry into our studio. The first draft might be roughly the size and shape of our story but without revision, we cannot bring out the unique qualities that will cause a story to leap off the page and grab a reader by the throat. In this class we will use generative exercises to create new work and lovingly workshop stories so we can […]

Craft Lecture with Jane Hirshfield (via Zoom)

via ZOOM

The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring five award-winning poets & beloved professors. Each poet will share the insights about craft that they have gleaned from decades of devoting themselves to studying the art of poetry. Unlike a workshop environment that prioritizes student work and student-led conversation in one-off or weekly sessions, these monthly lectures will provide the much-desired chance to listen to some of today’s most renowned writers’ valuable wisdom, uninterrupted, and […]

When Poetry Meets Prose: Prose Poem Generative Workshop with Denise Duhamel (in person at HVWC)

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

Russel Edson has called the prose poem “a cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because the pilot doesn't seem to care if it does or not,” while the Laura Sullivan explains that the language of prose poems is for “people who don't often get to hold the floor and know at any moment they may be cut off.” In this generative workshop we will explore prose poems as shape (think beds, billboards, mattresses, paintings), as fables, as meditations, and […]