Join us for the 2023 Hudson Valley Writers Guild Annual Meeting at the Washington Avenue branch of the Albany Public Library on Saturday, November 4.At this meeting, we will present our annual report to the members of the HVWG and look forward to the year ahead. If you want to join the HVWG team, we […]
St. Rocco’s has been a curated invitational series since our inception in 2016. This is our first time hosting an Open Mic format, and we are limiting our sign-up to students.The event begins with a gathering at 4pm. Readings begin promptly at 4:30pm. The reading will be held on the Saint Rose campus at MidKnight […]
Northshire Saratoga: S. Rancourt and Jay Rogoff – Songs of Archilochus and Becoming PoetryPoet S. Rancourt and poet, critic, and scholar Jay Rogoff will share their latest works. Rancourt will read from her new collection, while Rogoff will speak to his essays, which explore how we understand and evaluate great poetry.
Christopher Paolini presents Murtagh, the latest installment in his blockbuster “Inheritance Cycle,” with over 33 million copies in print. In March 2023, Money magazine ranked the cycle, the 13th biggest-selling fantasy series of all time.In 2011, Paolini was named the youngest author of a bestselling book series by the Guinness Book of World Records— the […]
A conversation with award-winning author Karin Lin-Greenberg, Siena College Associate Professor of English.Karin Lin-Greenberg‘s first story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the 2013 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press and won gold in the Short Story category of Foreword Reviews’ INDIE Book of the Year in 2014. Her second story […]
Susanna Hoffs rose to fame as the founder, lead singer and guitarist of 1980s “hit machine,” The Bangles, a band known for “Manic Monday” (1986), “Walk Like an Egyptian” (1986), “In Your Room” (1988), and “Eternal Flame” (1989).New this year, Hoffs is also the author of a bestselling debut novel, This Bird Has Flown (2023)— […]
Poets Suzanne Rancourt and Anton Yakovlev will be reading their work at Greenkill Gallery for the Calling All Poets Green Kill Sessions series.
Join the Troy Public Library and local poet & author Susan Comninos for a poetry reading & writing class at the Main branch on Saturday, November 11th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.This class will explore the creation of a speaker who’s virtuous, un-self-blaming, special — and also, not quite real. Beginning poets, especially, like […]
The next session of Next Year’s Words, A New Paltz Readers Forum, will be held on November 15, 2023, at 7:30, at Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz, New York. The readers for this event are Stephanie JT Russell, Judith Kerman, and Jennifer Franklin.There also is an open mic. All are welcome to […]
A panel discussion, sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., on understanding the consequences of book banning and their impact in a modern society at the Pine Hills branch of the Albany Public Library in the large meeting room.Bring a banned book to donate to The Red Bookshelf! Scheduled participants include: Dr. Kimberly Wilkins – Retired […]
Local poet Victorio Reyes Asili will read from his work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.Victorio Reyes Asili has a PhD from the University at Albany, where he completed his dissertation entitled Mic Check — Finding Hip Hop’s […]
Please join us for our first poetry/storytelling open mic! Featuring Poet Elaine Handley, three-time winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Best Book of Poetry.Participants have five minutes to read two short poems or one long one; storytellers have 5 minutes to tell, narrate or perform their piece. Don’t be afraid to come out and […]
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
