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Fall/Winter 2021 Calendar

​All Workshops, Classes, & Events

All PVWW's Workshops and Events are Held Virtually, on Zoom!
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Working on a manuscript? Learn about our year-long manuscript Program
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One-Day Class: Blue
Multi-Week Workshop: Red
For Young Writers: Orange
Free Event: Green


​SEPTEMBER 

1.5 Hours: Friday, September 3 (6 - 7:30pm EST) • FREE EVENT
Generative Community Writing: "What If?"
with Joy Baglio, PVWW Founder/Director


3 Hours: Sunday, September 12 (1 - 4pm) • ONE-DAY CLASS
Publishing Your Poems
with Gail Thomas


6 Weeks: Tuesdays, September 14 - October 19 (6 - 8pm EST) • MULTI-WEEK WORKSHOP
Memoir Or Fiction: How Should I Tell My Story?
with Celia Jeffries


4 Weeks: Tuesdays, September 28 - October 19 (6 - 8pm EST) • MULTI-WEEK WORKSHOP
The Only Fact We Have: Writing About Death
with Carolyn Zaikowski


​OCTOBER

1.5 Hours: Friday, October 1 (6 - 7:30pm EST) • FREE EVENT
Generative Community Writing: Flash Fiction/Memoir & Micros
with Joy Baglio, PVWW Founder/Director


3 Hours: Saturday, October 2 (1 - 4pm EST)
Memoir & Metaphor: Capturing Core Themes In Our Lives
with Arya Samuelson


8 Weeks: Mondays, October 4 - November 22 (6 - 8pm EST)
Short Fiction Intensive
with Carolyn Zaikowski


10 Weeks: Tuesdays, October 12 - December 14 (6 - 8pm EST)
Generative and Community-Building Workshop: All Genres
with Kate Senecal

8 Weeks: Thursdays, October 14 - December 9* (6 - 8pm EST) *No class on 11/25
Generative and Community-Building Workshop: All Genres
with Kate Senecal


2 Hours: Saturday, October 16 (1 - 3pm EST)
Writing Inside & Outside the Frame: The Image As Doorway
with Candice Reffe


2 Hours: Sunday, October 23 (1 - 3pm EST)
The Path to Publishing Your Fiction
with Joy Baglio


8 Weeks: Tuesdays, October 26 - December 14 (6 - 8pm EST)
Advanced Fiction Workshop
with Carolyn Zaikowski


2 Weeks: Saturday, October 30 & Saturday November 6 (1 - 4pm EST)
Making the Iceberg: Worldbuilding in Science Fiction
with James Cambias


​NOVEMBER

4 Weeks: Mondays, November 1 - 22 (6 - 8pm EST)
​Taking Shape: Writing Poetry In Form
with Gail Thomas


1.5 Hours: Friday, November 5 (6 - 7:30pm EST) • FREE EVENT
Generative Community Writing
with Joy Baglio, PVWW Founder/Director


6 Weeks: Sundays, November 7 - December 19* (10am - 12pm EST) 
Transcending the Self: Letting the Writing Lead
with Candice Reffe
*No class on 11/28!


2 Hours: Sunday, November 7 (1 - 3pm EST)
Cleaning Out the Closets: A Hybrid Workshop on Building Resonance from Objects & Talismans
with Tommy Dean


2 Hours: Thursday, November 11 (6 - 8pm EST)
Character Goals: Using Screenwriting Techniques to Write Character-Driven Fiction
with Kat Lewis


2 Hours: Saturday, November 13 (1 - 3pm EST)
Narrative Poetry
with Anders Carlson-Wee


2 Hours: Sunday, November 14 (1 - 3pm EST)
Cleaning Out the Closets: A Hybrid Workshop on Building Resonance from Objects & Talismans
with Tommy Dean

1.5 Hours: Sunday, November 14 (4 - 5:30 pm EST) • FREE EVENT • A Year-Long Manuscript Program Event!
Sustaining the Book-Length Project
with Joy Baglio, Kate Senecal, Carolyn Zaikowski, and Celia Jeffries 


3 Hours: Saturday, November 20 (1 - 4pm EST)
Unearthing the Deeper Story: A Revision Workshop
with Arya Samuelson


4 Weeks: Mondays, November 29 - December 20 (6 - 8pm EST)
Revising & Polishing Your Poems
with Gail Thomas


​DECEMBER

1.5 Hours: Friday, December 3 (6 - 7:30pm EST) • FREE EVENT
Generative Community Writing
with Joy Baglio, PVWW Founder/Director

3 Hours: Saturday, December 11 (1 - 4pm EST)
Writing Dialogue
with Kira Rockwell


DATE: TBA
Year-Long Manuscript Group Reading and Program Open House
with the 2021 Year-Long Manuscript Groups and All Year-Long Program Instructors
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Learn about our year-long manuscript workshop groups

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What People Are Saying About PVWW

"Can't say enough about PVWW, Joy, and her amazing team of teachers! Writing is very much about the ability to sit in your seat for hours and put pen to paper, but coming to PVWW has helped me build a community around my writing, breathe new life into my efforts, and get out of my own head a bit. And beyond that, I've learned lots of practical, nuts-and-bolts techniques that have vastly improved my work."
- Emily Everett, Editor at The Common

Contact Us

Email: joy@pioneervalleywriters.org
Phone: 518-645-1113 
Location: Northampton, MA

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