Contests and awards from Greensboro Review, California State University, Yale University Press, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and more.
Publication news from HVWG members Lisa St John, Peter Balint, Shakeema Funchess, Elisabeth Frischauf, Joni Marie Iraci, and Eileen Kelly.
Poets in the Park is back for 2025, bringing poetry and spoken word to Washington Park, with David Graham, Alyssa Michelle, Jessica Femiani, JTDAPOET, and more.
Three poems – “Hair, Black.,” “Skin,” and “Inheritance” – by poet and writer Nana T. Baffour-Awuah.
HVWG Member Anthony Berninni’s new collection of poetry, “Selected Poems,” is now available from Troy Book Makers.
Contests, awards, and prizes from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Palette Poetry, Tupelo Press, Omnidawn Publishing, and more.
Fours poems – “The Day I Got My Timing Down,” “Another Time, This Same Moon,” “Early Morning Love Song,” and “Whose Life Is It, Anyway?” – by poet and retired educator D. R. James.
Three poems – “Walt Whitman,” “Bethesda Fountain,” and “Good Again” – by Massachusetts poet Adam Sarlan.
Joseph Dunnigan visits Piermont, discovering local history at the library and learning about the village’s WWII connections, a forgotten pier, and vibrant community.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild is now accepting submissions for our 2025 HVWG Nonfiction Contest.
Nancy Klepsch and Shawn McCann, in collaboration with TAP, Inc. and the NYS Writers Institute, invite submissions for the 2025 Queer Poetry Prize & Mural Contest.
Contests, awards, and prizes from Narrative, Minds Shine Bright, British Fantasy Society, Cider Press Review, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and more.
