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Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)

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

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, will be given a 5 minute spot. The “in person” performers at HVWC will be the first to perform. The online, virtual performers, will then […]

An Evening with Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin & Dzvinia Orlowsky (via Zoom)

via ZOOM

Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they launch the 2025 reading series with new poetry by Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin, & Dzvinia Orlowsky. Each of the poets will read for 20 minutes from their new books and there will be a Q&A with audience questions. Alicia Ostriker has published 19 collections of poetry, been twice nominated for the National Book Award, and has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, among other honors.   Her work has appeared […]

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An Afternoon with Bernhard Schlink (in person at HVWC & via Zoom)

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

Join us in person at HVWC or on Zoom as we welcome Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) as he reads from his brand new book, The Granddaughter. Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of The Reader, which became a multi-million copy international bestseller and an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, and The Woman on the Stairs. He lives in Berlin and New York. […]

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HVWC Presents: Masters of Craft Poetry Series with Dorianne Laux

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 themsleves 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 […]

Open Write (in person & via Zoom)

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

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 Cassie Cartaginese and Cassie Valencia will facilitate an evening of generative writing, story swapping and community building. IN PERSON PARTICIPANTS will be required to show proof of vaccination at the time of entry. […]

Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)

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

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, will be given a 5 minute spot. The “in person” performers at HVWC will be the first to perform. The online, virtual performers, will then […]

An Eveing of New Poetry with Tiana Clark, Shanta Lee, & Ruben Quesada (Via Zoom)

via ZOOM

Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they welcome Tiana Clark, Shanta Lee, and Ruben Quesada, as they read from their new collections! Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection,Scorched Earth (Simon & Schuster, March 5, 2025); I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize: and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery […]

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Poetry Craft Lecture with Afaa M. Weaver (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 themsleves 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 […]

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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Open Write (in person & via Zoom)

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

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 Cassie Cartaginese and Cassie Valencia will facilitate an evening of generative writing, story swapping and community building. IN PERSON PARTICIPANTS will be required to show proof of vaccination at the time of entry. […]

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 […]

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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