Hudson Valley Writers Center

The Hudson Valley Writer Center is a non-profit literary arts organization in Philipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

It was established on August 5, 1988, by Margo Taft Stever, a Sleepy Hollow poet, with the assistance of the Westchester Council of Arts, and moved into its permanent home at the Philipse Manor Railroad Station in 1996.

[1][6][7] To deal with financial realities, a nonprofit organization, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, was formed on June 28, 1988.

[8] In 1990, Stever founded Slapering Hol, (Old Dutch for Sleepy Hollow), dedicating the press to emerging poets.

The press also brought many poets to the center for readings, such as Denise Levertov, Billy Collins, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, and Rita Dove.

[9] The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 allocated $306,700 to repair and restore the Philpse Manor Station House.

[13] In 1996, the Hudson Valley Writers Center celebrated the opening of its renovated railroad station with a reading by Billy Collins.

[21] In 2019, Hudson Valley Writers Center helped to plan and coordinate the First Annual Sleepy Hollow Literary Festival.

Submission Sunday is a new, members-only event that allows writers across multiple genres to provide morale, material, and technical support to one another as they publish their work.

The program consisted of after-school homework help, writing and special art workshops, and a computer lab created by the center's outreach teachers.

[31] The Center realizes that the overwhelming influence of the internet, television, and other media make so many young people not get the benefit of literary work and are not learning the art of self-expression through creative writing.

In doing so, they launched the Foundation for the Future capital campaign, hoping to secure its legacy as a place to bring writers together.