Writers’ Center approaches 20 years
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- May
- 27
The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow kicked off its 20th year celebration Thursday with a cocktail party at the Rockefeller’s Playhouse in Pocantico Hills.
The writers’ group started by Margo and Don Steever of Sleepy Hollow has grown from meetings in their living room to readings throughout Westchester and programs that inspire writers from all corners of the world. The group has run outreach sessions — journal-writing sessions for homeless women and children and taught poetry classrooms in many schools. It publishes an annual poetry collection from Slapering Hol Press and is the 2008 Arts Award recipient from the Westchester Arts Council.
The cocktail party with drinks and canapes drew in some local writers: Ben Cheever who wrote “The Plagarist,” ” The Good Nanny” and “Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete”; Rob Fleder who puts together those photo-laden Sports Illustrated books that are coffee table essentials; and Marilyn Johnson who wrote “The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries” and is working on a new book.
Also, essay writer Herbert Hadad; novelist and short story writer Sergio Troncoso whose works include “The Last Tortilla and Other Stories”; and David Tucker, managing editor of the Star Ledger newspaper who was the 2004 winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize for his poetry.
At the center, the renovated stone train station at Philipse Manor, there are readings, open mike sessions and numerous writing classes. Check out this spring’s offerings.
The HVWC will hold a grand gala this fall to really celebrate and unveil plans for the future.
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