Open Write (in person & via Zoom)

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

Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the Second Saturday of each month. This group will take place in HYBRID FORM, meaning that there will participants in person at HVWC as well as joining on the big screen via Zoom. Your hosts Cassie Cartaginese and Cassie Valencia will […]

An Afternoon with New Poetry with Nicole Cooley, Karen Finley & Kimiko Hahn

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

Nicole Cooley is the author of six books of poems, including Of Marriage and Girl after Girl after Girl. Her first book, Resurrection, won the Walt Whitman Award. Raised in New Orleans, Cooley is professor of English in the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY, and lives outside of […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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