About this Service

Join us for an immersive, hands-on writers workshop that will focus and enhance your writing and awaken the artist within you.

SPACE IS LIMITED!

Enroll at Hudson Valley Writers Residency's website (below) before May 20th and get the EARLY BIRD SPECIAL:

https://www.hudsonvalleywriters.org/workshop-jessica-dickey

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

About this Lister

"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

Background and Expertise

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.