Writers Workshop

June 12th - 15th

w/ Playwright, Author & Apple TV’s

JESSICA DICKEY

"Jessie's workshops are rare, beautiful spaces where participants learn how to carefully nurture each other's developing work. Her joyful facilitation ensured that we retained ownership over our own creativity, and I finished with a much more developed play, as well as invaluable strategies for continuing to write on my own."

-- Talya Kingston

Jessica Dickey is an award-winning playwright whose writing was hailed by the New York Times as having “freshness, economy, cheeky vulgarity, with a fine measure of poetic insight”, and New Yorker magazine as “funny, smart, deep and sad.”  Some of her more renowned plays include The Amish Project, Galileo’s Daughter, The Convent and The Rembrandt. In television, Jessie wrote for the hit show Physical on Apple TV, and has developed for Netflix, ABC and Paramount TV. She is currently writing a feature film produced by Searchlight and Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters). Jessie co-authored a memoir called Sistering: The Art of Holding Close and Letting Go, published by Pilgrim Press.  She divides her time between Brooklyn, LA, and the south of France.

What You Can Expect

FOR WRITERS OF ALL DISCIPLINES

  • Emerge from the isolation of writing

  • Be in dialogue with other writers

  • Infuse your writing with generative, fresh energy

  • Hear new voices and ideas

  • Learn practical tools for the work

  • Gain insights into how to bring the writing forward

  • Enjoy a warm, casual, fun, generous and generative vibe

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • 4 Day workshop with Jessie Dickey

    • Daily guided writing prompts designed to invigorate the creative practice and stir the heartbeat of what your project wants next 

    • Engage and practice a new framework for feedback

    • Free time to write

    • Friday and Saturday will also include the sharing and feed-backing of work (using framework mentioned above)

    • Sunday will conclude with an opportunity to share our process with the wider community of Coxsackie (optional). A moment to connect over the power of writing. 

  • Breakfast - Every day

  • Lunch - Every day

  • Dinner - Thursday & Saturday

WHERE TO STAY?

BUNDLE AND SAVE!

Hudson Valley Writers Residency offers accomodations onsite. Choose from any of our rooms, discounted for workshop participants.

OTHER HOUSING OPTIONS

The James Newbury Hotel

Area AirBnBs

Please email us directly and let us know if you have questions or issue finding accommodations. HVWR can help! info@hudsonvalleywriters.org

Jessica Dickey Workshop
from $1,250.00

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MORE TESTIMONIALS

"Jessie’s classes have been immeasurably helpful to me. Her practices and lessons are broad enough that each student can personalize them to their own needs. They’ve truly revolutionized my experience of writing, helping me tap into my own ideas and imagination with ease and urgency. Jessie also fosters an immense camaraderie among her students. Within the class setting, everyone is present and attuned to each others’ work. As students, we develop a lot of affection for each other and the pieces that are shared week after week."

-- Ruth Samuelson

"I can’t say thank you enough. Each class was an inspiration that unlocked ideas that had not yet come to the surface. I was grateful to be included with such a brilliant group of writers - each week I could hardly wait to learn from them and immerse myself in their stories. By the end of each class, I found the freedom to write the heat regardless of context – whatever it was, it would find its way home.

Your class taught me to trust my instincts and to open my mind to what is possible. I came to class with a mud ball of an idea. But after just the first class, the ball started to open up into multiple strands of an expanding universe waiting for the lasso."

-- Scott Johnson