Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers 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 […]

Revision Is the Story: a six-week short story workshop with Bethany Ball (In Person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers 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 […]

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 […]

When Poetry Meets Prose: Prose Poem Generative Workshop with Denise Duhamel (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers Center 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States

Russel Edson has called the prose poem “a cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because the pilot doesn't seem to care if it does or not,” while the Laura Sullivan explains that the language of prose poems is for “people who don't often get to hold the floor and know at any moment they […]

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

Hudson Valley Writers 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 […]

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An Afternoon of New Poetry with Bridget Bell, Matthew Gellman, Jennifer Jean & Michelle Whittaker (in person at HVWC)

Hudson Valley Writers 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 […]

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