Thank you for your interest in HVWC's programming and scholarship opportunities!
Need-Based Scholarship applications (including those for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC & Karen Finley Women & non-binary writers) for all classes January 24, 2025-June 1 are due on January 15. Scholarship awards will be announced by January 24. Applicants for these scholarships must have financial need. Special consideration will be given to students who identify as being one or more of the following: BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ women & non-binary students. All applicants must be over 18 years of age and have a current U.S. or U.S. territory resident address. These scholarships are awarded based on our funding and the passion of your application. Please tell us why you want to take the top three classes for which you are applying. Emerging writers in any genre are welcome. Please keep in mind that if you received a scholarship from HVWC in the last round, you might not receive funding this time but you should apply again next year. We want to award as many scholarships as possible but we cannot fund every applicant every round! Thank you for being a part of our community. We appreciate you and your work.
HVWC is proud to announce a literary residency for eight poets and eight prose writers on the beautiful campus of The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Tarrytown, NY from June 2 to June 6, 2025. Confirmed faculty are award-winning, nationally acclaimed authors: Nick Flynn, Chen Chen, Brian Turner, and Ananda Lima. Each student will take two two-hour workshops a day in their genre from 9:30-11:30 am and 2:00-4:00 pm and spend the rest of the time writing and exploring the grounds. Students will live onsite in well-appointed guest houses during the residency. Students will share bedrooms, bathrooms, living, and dining spaces. The Pocantico Center will provide a grocery stipend for breakfasts and lunches, as well as catered family-style dinners. The residency is open to all poets and prose writers, including historically underrepresented artists, such as those who identify as Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, women, nonbinary, or disabled. Please check the HVWC website for details on December 1st. A private reading on campus for students and faculty will take place at The Pocantico Center on June 5 to celebrate the residency. Cost per person is $2,500. There will be four full need-based scholarships available, two in each of the genres. Space is limited. To apply for the residency, please include ten pages of poetry and fifteen pages of prose in your Submittable application.
Chen Chen (Poetry M-F) is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.
Nick Flynn’s (Prose M&W Poetry T, Th & on F (with Brian Turner) most recent book is Low (Graywolf, 2023). Other recent books include: This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (Norton, 2020); and Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012), and has been translated into fifteen languages.
Ananda Lima (Prose M-F) is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books,2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Poets.org, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. Lima has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program, and is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. She is the Fall 2024 Flagler Storytellers Author in Residence. Craft, her fiction debut, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and The New York Times Review of Books describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago.
Brian Turner (Prose T&T, Poetry M, W, & on F with Nick Flynn) is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently: The Wild Delight of Wild Things (2023), The Goodbye World Poem (2023), and The Dead Peasant's Handbook (2023), all published by Alice James Books. His other collections include Here, Bullet, Phantom Noise, and the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country. He is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.