“The Hudson Valley Writers Center presides over a great river of language, heart, and imagination.”
—Fred Marchant
Authors: to schedule a reading with HVWC, please contact [email protected] 6 months-1 year in advance of your publication date. Please note: we are fully booked through the rest of 2024. Thank you!
The Hudson Valley Writers Center brings writers and readers together to celebrate the essential art of the written and spoken word. The Center fosters a vibrant literary arts community that supports and empowers writers and readers of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds at every stage of their creative development.
We are committed to ensuring our programming is accessible to as many people as possible through our pay-what-you-can reading series, scholarship initiatives, and ongoing engagement with the members of our growing local and virtual communities.
Workshops
The Hybridity Debate: Exploring the Cento, Erasure, and the Burning Haibun with Kay E. Bancroft (via Zoom)
April 27 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Letters as a Literary Form (Prose & Poetry) with Teow Lim Goh (via Zoom)
April 28 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tues AM Memoir with Susan Hodara (in hybrid form)
April 30 @ 10:30 am - 12:45 pm
Tues PM Memoir with Susan Hodara (in hybrid form)
April 30 @ 1:15 pm - 3:30 pm
The Elements of Short Fiction with Jennifer Gessner (in person at HVWC)
May 1 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Memoir Writing Workshop (Weds PM) with Susan Hodara Via Zoom
May 1 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Writing the Short Story with Alisa Kwitney (via Zoom)
May 1 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (via Zoom on Thursday mornings)
May 2 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
May 3 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Events
Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)
April 26 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis
April 26 @ 10:30 am - 11:15 am
Poetry-as-Process Spring Workshop with Jane Huffman (via Zoom)
April 27 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Special Open Mic with Westchester Poet Laureate, Phylisha Villanueva
April 27 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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