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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 […]

The Best Match: Poetry for Literary Journals with Amy Holman (6-week class, In person at HVWC)

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

In this class, Amy Holman will teach you how to match the poems you write to the best possible literary journal editors. She will teach you quick ways of assessing what is published by answering a set of questions about each poem. This will, in turn, help you assess your own poetic style. Literary journals can also be creatively inspiring, and in this class you will be encouraged to write new poems that are influenced by the poets we read, […]

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 […]

The Best Match: Poetry for Literary Journals with Amy Holman (6-week class, In person at HVWC)

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

In this class, Amy Holman will teach you how to match the poems you write to the best possible literary journal editors. She will teach you quick ways of assessing what is published by answering a set of questions about each poem. This will, in turn, help you assess your own poetic style. Literary journals can also be creatively inspiring, and in this class you will be encouraged to write new poems that are influenced by the poets we read, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Best Match: Poetry for Literary Journals with Amy Holman (6-week class, In person at HVWC)

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

In this class, Amy Holman will teach you how to match the poems you write to the best possible literary journal editors. She will teach you quick ways of assessing what is published by answering a set of questions about each poem. This will, in turn, help you assess your own poetic style. Literary journals can also be creatively inspiring, and in this class you will be encouraged to write new poems that are influenced by the poets we read, […]

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 […]

An Afternoon of New Poetry with Esther Lin, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, & Jinmin Seo

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

Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She was also a 2019–20 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and a 2017–2019 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently she co-organizes the Undocupoets, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that […]

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The Best Match: Poetry for Literary Journals with Amy Holman (6-week class, In person at HVWC)

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

In this class, Amy Holman will teach you how to match the poems you write to the best possible literary journal editors. She will teach you quick ways of assessing what is published by answering a set of questions about each poem. This will, in turn, help you assess your own poetic style. Literary journals can also be creatively inspiring, and in this class you will be encouraged to write new poems that are influenced by the poets we read, […]

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, […]

Free

Craft Lecture with Diane Seuss (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 […]