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

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Lauren Acampora (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 […]

Fail Like a Genius: Writing Better Prose Through Minor and Major Setbacks with Kristopher Jansma (in person at HVWC)

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

This two-hour Master Class will examine the lessons we can learn from the many failures of our greatest fiction writers. Students can generate fresh work through a series of hands-on exercises inspired by our discussions of the lost, unfinished, and just plain bad works of the authors we love most. NB: This is a two hour Master Class in Prose capped at 10 students. It will take place in person at HVWC before Kristopher’s reading with Tracy O’Neill. We hope […]

An Afternoon with Harper One Prose Writers Kris Jansma & Tracy O’Neill (In Person at HVWC)

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

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Story, and ZYZZYVA. His nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, The Sun, The Millions, Salon, Real Simple, The Believer, and Electric Literature. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY […]

Free

HVWC Holiday Cocktail Party (in person after Prose Reading)

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

Join the HVWC Staff and Board as we celebrate the holiday season. This party is free and open to our HVWC community. Complimentary wine will be available. Please consider giving a donation. Please consider coming early for the Prose Reading with Kristopher Jansma & Tracy O’Neill at 5pm.

Free

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 […]

Free

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. […]

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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Event Series Winter Solstice Stand-Up Comedy Showcase (FREE)

Winter Solstice Stand-Up Comedy Showcase (FREE)

Dobbs Ferry Public Library 55 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry

Join us this Winter Solstice for some for warmth, lights, and laughter at our 18th FREE Stand Up Comedy Showcase (intended for 18+) in Dobbs Ferry Public Library’s Community Room! featuring: Host:Tim Deery, Linda DeSantis, Cyndy Cecil, Mike Munari, Nina Mozes, Headliner: Yemi Afolabi, + live music from Nathaniel Johnston (bio’s below) • please email Reference@DobbsFerryLibrary.org to sign up (room seats 75) • doors open 7:00 pm with first come, first serve seating for sign-ups • doors open to public at 7:45 pm if there is still room

Free
Event Series Winter Solstice Stand-Up Comedy Showcase (FREE)

Winter Solstice Stand-Up Comedy Showcase (FREE)

Dobbs Ferry Public Library 55 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry

Join us this Winter Solstice for some for warmth, lights, and laughter at our 18th FREE Stand Up Comedy Showcase (intended for 18+) in Dobbs Ferry Public Library’s Community Room! featuring: Host:Tim Deery, Linda DeSantis, Cyndy Cecil, Mike Munari, Nina Mozes, Headliner: Yemi Afolabi, + live music from Nathaniel Johnston (bio’s below) • please email Reference@DobbsFerryLibrary.org to sign up (room seats 75) • doors open 7:00 pm with first come, first serve seating for sign-ups • doors open to public at 7:45 pm if there is still room

Free

Submission Sunday (via Zoom)

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 in the day leading up to the event. Please email misty@writerscenter.org with any questions. One Sunday a month, 12:30-2:30 pm. Join host M.A. Scott 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 […]

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. […]