Hudson Valley Writers Center

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Hudson Valley Writers Center We bring language to life through workshops, readings, publications, and outreach.
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The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, housed in the restored historic Philipse Manor Railroad Station, presents a wide range of literary experiences through public readings by established and emerging writers, features a variety of writing workshops in many genres, and publishes new poetry under Slapering Hol Press.

Here's our lineup of November + December classes! We are excited for these fantastic workshops, including:✍️ Multi-weeks...
11/04/2026

Here's our lineup of November + December classes! We are excited for these fantastic workshops, including:

✍️ Multi-weeks - 2-hour classes that run up to six weeks consecutively

✍️ Weekend intensives: 2-4 hour classes on Saturdays and Sundays

✍️ Conversations in Craft lectures - two left in our Fall 2026 series!

Visit our website for more information and to register!

www.writerscenter.org/workshops

Another Sleepy Hollow Show & Tell in the books! Thanks to  for creating this warm and wonderful community event - and fo...
10/28/2026

Another Sleepy Hollow Show & Tell in the books! Thanks to for creating this warm and wonderful community event - and for everyone who came out to share.

Next up in the building, we have two Murder Mystery Creative Writing workshops (Thursday for youth, Friday 18+). Hope to see you there!

The Slapering Hol Press presents the 21st annual War & Peace Reading, featuring Mark Pawlak! He is joined by Sean McClai...
10/22/2026

The Slapering Hol Press presents the 21st annual War & Peace Reading, featuring Mark Pawlak! He is joined by Sean McClain Brown, winner of the 2026 SHP Chapbook Competition, and members of David Surface’s Veterans Writers Workshop: Bill Greenhut, Bernie Seiler, and Michael Lang. Reserve your seat today: https://ow.ly/biv25100bi1

🗓️ Sunday, November 8
🕰️ 4:00-5:30 pm
📍Hudson Valley Writers Center

We had a very spooky weekend in the Center, filled with goblin trinkets and ghostly howls! WHAT SCARES YOU? CABARET fit ...
10/21/2026

We had a very spooky weekend in the Center, filled with goblin trinkets and ghostly howls! WHAT SCARES YOU? CABARET fit right in. Thank you to the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective for bringing us an evening of songs, poetry, and performance that explored what keeps us up at night. Halloween in Sleepy Hollow lasts all month long! 🎃👻

Exciting workshops are coming up! Reserve your seat for our poetry and prose workshops, taught by acclaimed authors and ...
10/20/2026

Exciting workshops are coming up! Reserve your seat for our poetry and prose workshops, taught by acclaimed authors and gifted teachers: https://www.writerscenter.org/workshops

Diving Deep: A Writing Intensive on Poetry's Ability to Reveal and Heal with Subhaga Crystal Bacon
➡️ This Monday Night generative poetry workshop will engage participants in a six week intensive writing poems that reveal hidden truths about ourselves.

Speaking To & Listening To Our Bodies: A Poetry Workshop with Amy Small-McKinney
➡️ We will surprise ourselves with poems to & from the body—of love or anger or elegy or fear or gratitude, or whatever we discover while engaged in deep listening and writing.

Crafting the Cover Letter with Diane Goettel
➡️ Diane Goettel, Executive Editor of Black Lawrence Press, reads thousands of cover letters every year--and she wants to help you get yours right.

The Swerve: Developing Your Poem with Kim Addonizio
➡️ In this workshop, we'll explore the interplay between narrative and lyric movement, looking at how to guide a poem from that initial inspiration into new territory.

Writing For Composers: A Crash Course with Todd Boss
➡️ In this 2-hour crash course, you’ll study texts, learn to read like a composer, gather tips for entering into a true collaboration, and set yourself up to create powerful custom texts that really sing.

Last Sunday, we welcomed Kathy Fagan, Erika Meitner, and Elaine Sexton to the Center for a reading. They shared their be...
10/19/2026

Last Sunday, we welcomed Kathy Fagan, Erika Meitner, and Elaine Sexton to the Center for a reading. They shared their beautiful work, including new poetry, and inspired us all. Thank you to everyone who joined us for this afternoon of poetry. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Thank you to everyone who celebrated our 2026 Annual Gala, Your Waters, Your Melodies: A Benefit Celebrating the Power o...
10/15/2026

Thank you to everyone who celebrated our 2026 Annual Gala, Your Waters, Your Melodies: A Benefit Celebrating the Power of Language in Concert with Our Natural World.

This incredible gala honored our Community Honoree, Riverkeeper, and the organization’s growth under Tracy’s leadership. We also honored Haleh Liza Gafori, our Literary Honoree, who read her writing and translations aloud. She shared her personal passion for safeguarding the Hudson. Thank you to everyone who supports the Center; we are so grateful for every one of you. And a huge thank you to our Event Sponsors and everyone who donated to sustain our mission!

Visit our blog to read more about the gala and learn more about our work: https://www.writerscenter.org/post/your-waters-your-melodies

📸 Tim Grajek and Mark Liflander

The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring award-winning writers & beloved te...
10/13/2026

The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring award-winning writers & beloved teachers. Join us for this month's engaging craft series conversation with acclaimed author Richie Hofmann. Reserve your seat now: https://ow.ly/UvfO50ZXf4i

This craft conversation will look at really, really short poems—fragment, haiku, epigram. How short can a poem be and still be an engaging poem? How does its size change the piece’s sense of balance, tension, and unity? And how does the tiny poem’s size become a part of its meaning and power? We’ll explore several examples from history and—as usual—have a chance to experiment in our own writing, as well.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 21
🕰️ 7:00-8:15 pm ET
💻 Zoom

✨This Sunday✨ is Diane Tasca's in-person workshop, How to Shine at Your Poetry Reading! When you read your poetry to an ...
10/12/2026

✨This Sunday✨ is Diane Tasca's in-person workshop, How to Shine at Your Poetry Reading!

When you read your poetry to an audience, your poems deserve the very best reader they can get. This class will help you to become that reader. Tiered Pricing is available for this in-person class!

Reserve your seat for the 2-hour intensive: https://ow.ly/AHiP50ZWQ0m

You will focus on technical matters, investigate interpretive matters, and discuss your reading.

🗓️ Sunday, October 18
🕰️ 12:00-2:00 pm
📍Hudson Valley Writers Center

We have three remarkable Multi-Week Zoom Workshops coming up! Reserve your seat today to learn from these acclaimed auth...
10/09/2026

We have three remarkable Multi-Week Zoom Workshops coming up! Reserve your seat today to learn from these acclaimed authors: https://www.writerscenter.org/workshops

Days of Wonder: Reading and Writing the Ecstatic: A Poetry Workshop: This reading-intensive, writing-focused poetry workshop will look at matters of transcendence—however we may define the human mechanism at work when when we face huge joy or huge dread in this world and in the world of the psyche.
🗓️ 6 Sundays, Oct 18-Nov 22
🕰️ 2:00-4:00 pm ET

Diving Deep: A Writing Intensive on Poetry’s Ability to Reveal and Heal: This Monday Night generative poetry workshop will engage participants in a six week intensive writing poems that reveal hidden truths about ourselves.
🗓️ 6 Mondays, Oct 26-Dec 7
🕰️ 6:00-8:00 pm ET

In the Artist’s Studio: Explorations in Mixed Genre and Mixed Media Forms: In this 6-week generative and exploratory workshop, we’ll blend and fuse and weave our way into and through a variety of mixed-genre and mixed-media approaches.
🗓️ 6 Wednesdays, Oct 14-Dec 2
🕰️ 6:00-8:00 pm ET

The Multi-Week Workshops are typically 4- to 6-week classes that meet at the same time each week and are conducted via Zoom. Participants will have the opportunity to explore poetry and prose through weekly writing prompts, readings, and engaging discussions.

Address

300 Riverside Drive
Sleepy Hollow, NY
10591

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+19143325953

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