Written and Produced by Miriam Russell, Ed. D. Welcome to the Premiere of “Born a Secret,” the dramatic story of a woman’s search for her birthparents illustrates the conflict between her right to information about her true identity and the birth mother’s need to keep it a secret.The evening will include short films produced by […]
COLLAR CITY MUSHROOMS -– WRITE-INSPONSORED BY MENTAL HEALTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Mental Health Empowerment Project, an organization of mental health peers, invites writers to join the Expressive Writing Group it sponsors at Collar City Mushrooms in Troy, regardless of whether the participants identify as living with a mental health issue. THE GROUP IS OPEN TO EVERYONE […]
On Wednesday, December 24, Caffè Lena will present a poetry reading by Effy Redman. An open mic poetry reading will follow. Doors open for sign-ups at 6:30 pm and the readings will start at 7:00. The host for the event will be Carol Graser and the cost is $5 general, free for students. The featured reading will also […]
Join us for the 2024 Hudson Valley Writers Guild Annual Meeting on Zoom on Thursday, December 5, at 6:30 PM.At this meeting, we will present our annual report to the HVWG members and look forward to the year ahead. We will be filling open spots on the board if you want to join the HVWG […]
BE THE LIGHTSaturday, December 7, 2024 11am – 3pm 21 Weeks Road, Queensbury, NY $50.00 All genres, and skill levels are welcome to our AWA and Expressive Arts inspired writing workshop. If you don’t have any work that’s o.k. too, you will by the end of the day! Writing prompts to take home after the […]
The HVWG is proud to present the Year in Review Slam with Slam Euphoria, Dirty Gerund, the Boston Poetry Slam, and Slam Free or Die! Looking back at the year that was with a special invitational team poetry slam! Poets from Slam Euphoria, Dirty Gerund, the Boston Poetry Slam, and more will battle it out […]
Join host Rachel Baum at the Saratoga Senior Center (290 West Avenue, Saratoga Springs) on Friday, December 13, 2024 at 1:00pm to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the Center’s Poetry Open Mic! Poet Elaine Handley has agreed to once again be our Featured Poet. She was our very first Feature in December 2023. For the […]
Holidays are usually fun times for families and friends to gather together, eat good food, and catch up with one another. So why are so many murders committed during the holidays? Fictional murders, of course! What is it about the holidays that novelists decide it’s a good time to kill characters?Several authors from the Upper […]
The Hound Books brings together two debut authors: Danny Goodman & Aaron Jacobs.Reservations: https://resy.com/cities/cllcn/seminary-hil Danny Goodman’s writing has appeared in various publications, and he was the recipient of a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, where he was a two-time winner of the Samuel Mockbee […]
Poet Barbara Ungar will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.Barbara Ungar’s sixth full-length poetry collection, After Naming the Animals, concerning the sixth extinction, was published this June by The Word Works, which also published Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Bronte, […]
Writing memoir is writing from a place within our minds, hearts, and bodies where the information is so raw, perhaps we haven’t yet processed it fully — the cognitive and analytical mind has not yet taken over to codify, slice, and splice into discernible chunks of story. This raw inner space of emotion and experience […]
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day: All Day Reading open to any and all to participate!December 21, 2024 – start time 1pm “Midwinter Day” is a 120-page work in prose and poetry written by Bernadette Mayer on December 22, 1978, using notes, tapes, photographs, and memory. It divides the day into six parts: dreams, morning, noontime, afternoon, evening, and […]
Whirlwind, this year’s New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza is sponsored by the Saugerties Arts Commission and presented by the Hudson Valley New Years Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza and The Local in Saugerties.The six-hour event will feature more than 110 poets, writers and musicians drawn from the Hudson Valley region. In the spirit of democracy, […]
Apertures of Intimacy:Voyeur as Witness a 5 week bibliotherapeutic writing series Fridays, 10am – 12pm EST via Zoom January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 2025 $50 USD registration fee, $200 USD balance by Jan 3. (various payment plans & methods are available. What’s App or text Suzanne for more info. No one is turned away. […]
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.
