Theater, Improv, and Play! (Grades 5-8)

Theatre, Improv, and Play! with Misty Yarnall July 21-25, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Grades 5-8 Through movement-based improv games and collaborative writing prompts, students will gain a better […] Read more »

Let’s Make a Play! with Serrena Norr (Grades 3-5)

Let’s Make a Play! with Serrena Norr July 29- August 1, 2025 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Grades 3-5 Students will learn how to develop their very own 10-minute […] Read more »

Sanger-Stewart Memorial Reading featuring 2024 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest Winner Jemma Leigh Roe

Please join us for the 2024 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest Winner Jemma Leigh Roe as she reads from her new book Running with the Hare, along with along with […] Read more »

World Building 101 (Grades 5-8)

World Building 101 with Misty Yarnall July 7-11, 2025 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Grades 5-8 Do you love reading adventure books with fantastical settings and magical elements? Have you […] Read more »

Fiction Fun! (Grades 5-8)

Fiction Fun! with Misty Yarnall July 14-18, 2025 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Grades 5-8 Have you always wanted to write stories? Or written so many stories and don’t know […] Read more »

Craft Lecture with Diane Seuss (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 […] Read more »

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

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 […] Read more »

Craft Lecture with Jane Hirshfield (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 […] Read more »

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

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, […] Read more »

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

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 […] Read more »