EventsOpen MicWe welcome writers and performers in every genre to share their words, music, or comedy with an encouraging audience. Bill Bus-chel hosts. $5 suggested donation. Third Fridays, 7:30 pm: Jan17, Feb21, Mar20, Apr17, May 15, June 19

Submission Sundays Join writers across genres for morale, material, and technical sup-port as you submit your work. Mary Ann Scott hosts. RSVP online. Free, for members only. Limited to 12 participants. First Sundays, 12:30 pm: January 5, see website for dates

Open Write Enjoy a generative evening of writing exercises, sharing work, and connecting with our community. Refreshments served. Michelle Thomas and Cassie Cartaginese host. Free for members, $10 regular. Second Saturdays, 7:30 pm: Jan11, Feb8, Mar14, Apr11, May 9, June 13

Emerging Writers Talk shop and share work in an informal setting. A ew group for younger writers (teens through 20s) now meets monthly with host Taylor Vogt, an MFA candidate at Manhattanville. Free for members, $10 regular. Third Saturdays, 7 pm: January 25, see website for dates

SHLF Saturdays Our new semi-annual showcase of local and self-published authors in January will feature a celebration of regional literary journals. for younger writers (teens through 20s) now meets monthly with host Taylor Vogt, an MFA candidate at Manhattanville. $5 admission. Saturday January 18, 7 pm

Schedule subject to change. Visit writerscenter.org to register, buy tickets, become a member, and get further info.

Hold Your Event at HVWC With its wraparound terrace featuring magnificent views of the Hudson River and an intimate great room, the HVWC is perfect for parties, receptions, and business meetings. For rental information, call us 914.332.5953 or email ask@writerscenter.org.

member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, The Game of Boxes, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Human Hours (Graywolf, 2018). She teaches and is an inde-pendent editor. Zucker is the author of ten books, including Sound Machine (Wave Books, 2019). Her other books include a memoir, MOTHERs, and a double collection of prose and poetry, The Pedestrians. Her Museum of Accidents was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry at NYU.

Alice Quinn on the work of Emily DickinsonFriday March 27, 7 pm Quinn was Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007 and at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers. She is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop. Her seminar on the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson was among the most famous classes at Columbia University School of the Arts MFA.

Mona Awad & Quan BarryFriday April 3, 7 pmAwad, a Canadian novelist and short-story writer, is the author of Bunny (Viking, 2019). Her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, about a woman’s lifelong struggle with body image issues, won the Amazon First Novel Award. Barry will read from her novel, We Ride Upon Sticks (Pan-theon, 2019). Born in Saigon and raised in Boston, she is the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, as well as of four books of poetry. Her collection Water Puppets won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was a PEN Open Book finalist. Barry teaches at the University of Wisconsin.

HVWC & Masters School Present: 10th Annual Westchester Poetry Festival with Reginald Dwayne BettsMasters School, Dobbs Ferry, Saturday April 4, 1 - 5 pm Betts (Felon, Norton), keynote reader, will join Leila Chatti, (Deluge, Copper Canyon Press), Aaron Coleman (Threat Come Close, Four Way Books), Lynn Emanuel (The Nerve of It, Poems New and Selected, Pitt Poetry Series), Sean Singer (Honey & Smoke), and Margo Taft Stever (Cracked Piano, CavanKerry Press) as they read their recent works. FREE EVENT

SHP Presents: An Afternoon with Liz Marlow & Richard JacksonSunday April 19, 4 pmMarlow’s poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, The Rumpus, Tikkun, and elsewhere. Her work has been a finalist for Permafrost Magazine’s New Alchemy Contest and a semi-finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She received her MFA from Western Michigan Univer-sity. Jackson teaches creative writing, poetry, and human-ities at Univ of TN and is a frequent guest lecturer. He is the author of 16 books of poems including The Heart’s Many Doors. He has published ten critical books and anthologies.

SHP Presents: An Evening with 2019 Conversation Chapbook Poets Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon & Leela Chantrelle and 2020 Conversation Poets Toi Derricotte & Dawn Lundy MartinFriday April 24, 7 pmVan Clief-Stefanon the author the acclaimed Open Interval and Black Swan, as well as Poems in Conversation and a Conver-sation, a chapbook collaboration with Elizabeth Alexander. She was one of ten celebrated poets commissioned to write poems inspired by the 2015 exhibit One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Visions of the Great Migration for MoMA. Chantrelle is a poet and literature enthusiast from San Francisco, California. She received a Bachelor’s in English and Creative Writing from Cornell University. She teaches English at a progressive high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Leading with a Naked Body is her first poetry col-lection. Derricotte is the author of I: New & Selected Poems (Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Undertaker’s Daughter, and four earlier collections of poetry. Professor Emerita at the Univ of Pittsburgh, she co-founded Cave Canem Foundation, served on the Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors, and currently serves on Cave Canem’s Board of Directors, Marsh Hawk Press’s Ar-tistic Advisory Board, and the Advisory Board of Alice James Books. Lundy Martin is a poet, essayist, and conceptual-video artist. She is the author of four books of poems, including Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House, 2017), and three limited edition chapbooks. Martin is a Professor of English at the Univ of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.

Diannely Antigua, Ryan Black, and Justin WymerFriday May 1, 7 pmAntigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. Black is the author of The Tenant of Fire (Univ of Pitts-burgh Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Death of a Nativist, selected by Linda Gregerson for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College of CUNY. Wymer is a poet, scholar, and educator. Born and raised in southwestern WV, he holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is pursuing a PhD in creative writing and literary arts with a focus on trauma studies, literature of excess and difficulty, and ecopoetics. His debut full-length collection, Deed (Elixir Press, 2019), won the 2018 Antivenom Poetry Award.

Sleepy Hollow Lit FestSaturday June 13 The 2nd Annual LitFest will feature readers and panelists including: Sarah Arvio, Stephen Bluestone, Julie Danho, Shira Dentz, JP Howard, Elizabeth Jacobson, Fred March-ant, Loretta Oleck, Oliver de la Paz, Jo Pitkin, Page Starzinger, Tess Taylor, Daniel Wolff, and many others. FREE EVENT

Schedule subject to change. Visit writerscenter.org to buy tickets and get further info. Unless noted, event tickets $10. Members, students, instruc-tors, seniors, and persons with disabilities, $5. Complimentary refreshments served.

ReadingsSigrid Nunez & Jim TilleyFriday January 24, 7 pmNunez has published seven novels, including The Friend (Riverhead Books, 2018), which won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of her short stories has been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019. Currently writer in resi-dence at Boston University, she has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Against the Wind (Red Hen Press, 2019) is Tilley’s debut novel. He has published three full-length collections of poetry and a short memoir, The Elegant Solution. In 2008 he won Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry. Tilley earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard.

John James, Diane Mehta, and Daniel Poppick Friday January 31, 7 pmJames is the author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), se-lected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His po-ems, essays, and interviews appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, BOMB, Lit Hub, PEN Poetry Series, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a PhD in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Mehta’s collection Forest with Castanets was published by Four Way Books in 2019. She has been an editor at PEN America’s Glossolalia, Guernica, and A Public Space. She is managing editor at Library Journal and School Library Journal. Poppick is the author of Fear of Descrip-tion (Penguin, 2019), selected for the National Poetry Series. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a copywriter and coeditor of the Catenary Press.

Lauren Mechling & Jonathan VatnerFriday February 7, 7 pmMechling will read from her critically-acclaimed debut novel, How Could She (Viking, 2019). She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she writes a regular book col-umn. She is a graduate of Harvard University. Vatner is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Poets & Writers. He has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard. Carnegie Hill is his first novel.

Pamela PaulFriday February 28, 7 pm Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at The New York Times. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast. She is the author of five books How to Raise a Reader, co-written with Maria Russo.

Sally Ball, Catherine Barnett, and Rachel ZuckerFriday March 13, 7 pmBall is the author of Wreck Me, Annus Mirabilis, and Hold Sway from Barrow Street (2013, 2005, and 2019). She is an associate professor at Arizona State University and faculty

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The Hudson Valley Writers Center, housed in the historic Philipse Manor Station in Sleepy Hollow, provides a supportive and con-structive environment for a diverse community of readers and writers. We bring language to life through workshops, readings, publications through our Slapering Hol Press, and outreach.

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HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTERFor GPS: Philipse Manor Station

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POETRYMonday Night Poetry, 6 Mondays, 6:30-9 pm, $370 Beginning January 13 (Session 1 with Suzanne Cleary), March 9 (Session 2 with Kathleen Ossip), April 20 (Session 3 with Amy Holman)

Year of Deep Revision: Poetry Manuscript Jennifer Franklin, 6 Wednesdays, 12:30-3 pm, $370Beginning January 8 (Session 1), February 26 (Session 2), April 15 (Session 3)

Year of Your Book: Poetry Jennifer Franklin, 6 Fridays, 10:45 am-1:15 pm, $370 Beginning January 10 (Session 1), February 21 (Session 2), April 17 (Session 3)Please note Session 3 meets 4 classes for $250

ONE-DAY INTENSIVESFrom a Tinkering to the Overhaul: What We Do When We Revise the Poem with Fred MarchantSunday January 26, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

Pushing the Poetic Metaphor with Suzanne ParkerSunday February 23, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

The Lyric Leap with Rachel HadasSaturday February 29, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

Poetry Craft Class with Sally BallSaturday March 14, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

The Character in Poems, Including Your Speaker as a Character and an Avatar of Yourself Who Is Not You with Patrick DonnellySunday March 22, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

Letters to No Body: Understanding Your Audience for the Epistolary poem with Justin WymerSaturday May 2, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

Hybrid Master Class with Chris CampanioniSaturday May 9, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

NON-FICTIONThe Art of the Personal Essay Herbert Hadad, 6 Mondays, 12:30-2:30 pm, $320Beginning April 6 (Session 3)

Memoir Writing Workshops with Susan Hodara6 Tuesdays, 10:30 am-12:45 pm OR 1:15-3:30 pm, $320Beginning January 14 (Session 1), March 3 (Session 2), April 21 (Session 3)

Workshop in Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank8 Thursdays, starts January 23, 9:30 am-12 pm, $505

ONE-DAY INTENSIVESDefining and Assembling Your Memoir with Susan HodaraSaturday March 7, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

Workshop schedule subject to change. Visit writerscenter.org to register and get further info.

FICTIONYear of Your Book: Fiction, Deep Revision Kirsten Bakis, 6 Mondays, 10:15 am-12:15 pm, $320 Beginning January 6 (Session 1), March 2 (Session 2), April 20 (Session 3)

Year of Your Book: FictionKirsten Bakis, 6 Wednesdays, 10:15 am-12:15 pm, $320Beginning January 15 (Session 1), March 4 (Session 2), April 22 (Session 3)

Writing, Revising, and Publishing Short FictionBeth Hahn, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-9 pm, $370Beginning March 4 (Session 2), April 22 (Session 3)

Page-Turning Fiction Joanne Dobson, 6 Thursdays, 2-4 pm, $320Beginning March 5 (Session 2), April 23 (Session 3)

I Am (Not) A Real WriterKirsten Bakis, Saturdays, 10 am-12 pm, $320Beginning January 11 (Session 1), March 7 (Session 2), April 25 (Session 3)Please note Session 3 meets 5 classes for $270

ONE-DAY INTENSIVESMapping the Plot with Kirsten Bakis Saturday January 25, 12:30-4:30 pm, $124Writing your First Novel with Christina Chiu Saturday February 22, 12:30-4:30 pm, $124Illuminating the Dark: Flash Fiction with Anna Potter Saturday March 21, 12:30-4:30 pm, $124

DRAMAWriting for Stage, Screen, and Television Bill Bigelow, 6 Fridays, 1:30-3:30 pm, $320 Beginning January 17 (Session 1), March 6 (Session 2), April 24 (Session 3)Improv for Actors, Writers, and Bored PeopleLynne Lori Sylvan, 6 Tuesdays, 7:10-9:10 pm, $320Beginning January 14 (Session 1), March 3 (Session 2), April 21 (Session 3)

ONE-DAY INTENSIVESPlaywriting Workshop: Storycraft and Structure for Writers with Barbara Blatner Saturday April 18, 12:30-4:30 pm $124

YOUTHCreative Writing for Youth Michael Patrick Collins, 6 Tuesdays, 4-5 pm, $150Beginning January 21 (Session 1), March 10 (Session 2), April 28 (Session 3)

Home Run ProjectStan Friedmann, 6 Sundays, 11 am-12 pm, $150Beginning January 26 (Session 1), March 15 (Session 2), May 3 (Session 3)

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