“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
Writing What You Didn’t Expect to Write with Alicia Ostriker (via Zoom)
May 18 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Bilingual Poetry Workshop with Silvina López Medin (via Zoom)
June 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Writer-Translator: Enhancing and Channeling Creativity Through Translation with Meg Matich (via Zoom)
June 8 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Book Publicity for Writers with Kristina Marie Darling (via Zoom)
June 9 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sorrow Is Not My Name: Writing Poems to Find Joy and Renewal through Grief with Meghan Sterling (via Zoom)
June 12 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poet as Witness to History: A Generative Writing Class with Tina Cane (via Zoom)
June 15 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow (via Zoom)
June 21 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Poetry’s Strange, Surreal Forest: Cultivating the Delightfully Odd in Our Poems with Lauren Brazeal Garza (via Zoom)
June 22 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Writing From the End of the World with Caitlin Grace McDonnell (via Zoom)
June 22 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Events
Somatic Meditation Group (Every Friday, in person at HVWC)
May 17 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
The SHAC SHAKE! drop in class with Josh Lewis
May 17 @ 10:30 am - 11:15 am
Open Mic (In Person & via Zoom)
May 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ghost Tour: The Supernatural in Literary Fiction with Ananda Lima (via Zoom)
May 18 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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