Writers' Hub Workshops
Manhattanville Writers’ Hub Fall Workshops
The Writers’ Hub at Manhattanville University is a literary home for the local Westchester County and Hudson Valley community.
Writers' Hub Spring 2025 Workshops
Each semester, the Manhattanville University MFA Program develops a series of creative writing workshops that are open to local community members and program alumni as well as to current MFA students. These events are designed to dig deeply into a specific element of the craft of writing and to help participants hone their skills. All events take place at Barat House, home of the Dowd-O'Gorman Creative Writing Center, tucked away on Manhattanville’s vibrant campus. Please see this semester’s offerings below. We look forward to hosting you at Barat House. Come work on your writing craft with us!
Upcoming Workshops
Scenes are the building blocks of any narrative writing and are often the way readers come to understand characters, setting, and tension in a deep, emotional way. In this workshop, students will engage in close reading with masterful scenes across genres and ask questions about how the physical and emotional choreography works to create a sense of forward momentum, investment, and stakes within a longer piece. We'll also put some of those techniques into practice with generative writing exercises and reserve time for students to give and receive feedback on scenes from works in progress.
Saturday, February 8, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Barat House, Manhattanville University
Registration Fee: $50. FREE for current Manhattanville MFA students
Fall Workshop Schedule
Building a Narrative Arc with Scenes
Amanda Parrish Morgan
February 8
How to Create Compelling Chapters
Laura Toffler
March 29
What a Literary Agent Really Wants Authors to Know
Gail Fortune
April 5
All workshops take place starting at 10:00 a.m. in Barat House
$50 registration fee
Free to Manhattanville MFA students
914.323.7211Manhattanville MFA Events
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Contact Us
Iain Haley Pollock, Director MFA Program Manhattanville University
