WVW NEWS

Recent Publication
Kate Hymes has two poems published, Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers,  Laurence Carr, ed., Codhill Press, 2007.
 
Summer News
Written by Kate Hymes   
It's almost summer and you are making plans to enjoy the warm weather and, hopefully, some well deserved down time.  Summer's long days offer us time to pay attention, dream, and imagine.  It is the season when we more easily keep our promise to write for long uninterrupted stretches.  I invite you to write with WVW  this summer.
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Welcome to WVW
Written by Kate Hymes   
Sieze a great opportunity to write your stories. WVW provides a structured time and supportive space for you to fulfill that dream. Many writers find the structure and community of a workshop benefist their work and keeps them motivated.
 
"A writer is someone who writes." -- William Stafford
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2008 Weekly Workshop Series
Written by Admin   

Summer (8 Weekly Meetings)

August 7 -- September 25 
Thursdays, 7 -- 10 PM 
 
AND
 
August 3 -- September 28
Sundays, 4 -- 7 PM
 
8 Weekly Workshop Meetings:  $50.00 deposit and pay $110.00 balance by or at first workshop meeting, or you may choose to pay $20.00/workshop meeting.  Total workshop fee -- $210 or $160, if paid by first workshop meeting.  Registration deadline:  July 19, 2008
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Write Saturdays 2008
Written by Kate Hymes   

A Full Day of Writing with Wallkill Valley Writers in New Paltz, New York. A creative writing workshop providing a safe place for writing to develop as your art. Six hours of writing and responding to written work in a supportive and knowledgeable community of writers.


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If We Are Sisters 2008
Written by Kate Hymes   

CancelLed 

IF WE ARE SISTERS:
BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN WRITE ACROSS RACE
Two Day Writing Retreat in New Paltz, New York
with Kate Hymes and Pat Schneider

Pat and Kate invite you to write and share your stories about race as you have personally lived it.   WVW hopes to reschedule this writing retreat in the future.
 
Once a week we sit and write...
Written by Greg Correll   
Once a week we sit together, and write. There is a method: a free write for a few minutes, to loosen up, shake off the day. We have a prompt, to stimulate us, a point of departure. We write, for about 45 minutes.
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