Hudson Valley Writers Center

Join us on April 21 @ 7:00 pm EST via Zoom for An Evening with Elana Bell, Deborah Paredez, and C.Dale Young! Register for free at www.writerscenter.org/calendar/april21/

The 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest Winner’s collection, Ubasute by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, is back in stock! Buy your copy here: https://www.writerscenter.org/product/ubasute/ "At the lucid depths of loss, as elemental as the Greek tragedies but on a personal scale and in an even tone of voice, Aaron Caycedo- Kimura’s poems in Ubasute are detailed, elegiac meditations within a particular American family. This compact, artful book evokes the eternal rhythms of grief and memory, loss and gratitude, including the evil of internment camps and the dignity of a suburban garden. Here is the restorative clarity of art." Robert Pinsky

Thank you, Michael Dechane, for your gorgeous reading of Aaron Caycedo-Kimura’s poem Owl from his brand new chapbook, UBASUTE (Slapering Hol Peess, 2021). It’s available now on our website.

This class starts tomorrow via Zoom! The Art of Dramatic Writing for Stage, Screen, and Television with Bill Bigelow. This 6-week course for writers looking to create screenplays, stage plays, and teleplays for television shows will meet 1:30-3:30pm EST on Friday, April 16 and end on May 21. https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/dramaticwritingapril/

Hear two-time Pulitzer finalist in fiction, RUSSELL BANKS, read alongside Sigrid Nunez on Wednesday, April 14th @ 7 pm EST via Zoom! Register for free at writerscetner.org/banksnunez/ Russell Banks will read from FORGONE (Ecco, 2021), a searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal. ... "Banks carefully layers the strata of a life, showing that the past is always more ambiguous than we think." -- The New Yorker "Strikingly effective. . . . Banks explores aging, memory, and reputation in thoughtful and touching ways. . . . A challenging, risk-taking work marked by a wry and compassionate intelligence." -- Kirkus Reviews Please join us & share! You can buy FORGONE here: https://www.harpercollins.com/produ/foregone-russell-banks

Congratulations to HVWC Literary Advisory Committee Member, Arthur Sze, on his latest collection: THE GLASS CONSTELLATION: NEW & COLLECTED POEMS. Don't miss Arthur Sze read from THE GLASS CONSTELLATION alongside Ellen Bass on July 14 @ 7pm EST via Zoom! https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/szebass/

Poets! Don't miss this Experimental Poetry Craft Class with Sarah Vap via Zoom! Sunday, April 18 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST. This one-day poetry intensive will discuss the craft of experimental poetry with an award-winning poet. writerscenter.org/calendar/vapcraft/