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Registration is Open!

Once again, we have launched our Indiegogo Fundraising Campaign. Each year we’ve appealed directly to The Festival’s friends, family, and colleagues to offer their support of our program. We thank you heartily for past support and ask that you once again help us to grow and thrive.

Come To The Catskills

HFWW 2024 has a writing workshop for everybody Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2024 is June 7, 8 &9 Settle in for a weekend dedicated to literature and women writers in Hobart, NY, a village set against the panorama of the Western Catskills. Explore Hobart, the Reading Capital of New York State and home to…

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Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2024

The Hobart Festival of Women Writers, now in its eleventh year, features diverse women writers leading workshops, readings, and panel discussions. Notable writers include Nancy Agabian, Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, and Mary Johnson. The festival fosters conversations, workshops, and camaraderie, creating a platform for women writers to showcase their work.

Hobart Festival of Women Writers Virtual Flash Readings

In order to preserve our platform celebrating women authors, we created our first Virtual Flash Readings. Forty writers participated by recording themselves reading their work. The videos were combined into two seamless, beautiful videos by Jessica Vecchione of VECC Videography assisted by Amber Gray. These videos were aired via Zoom on Saturday, September 12th and 13th, 2020.

Announcing Festival 2020

We have poets, fiction writers, essayists, dramatists, and artists. Join us for this special weekend of readings, workshops, a public conversation and, of course, book sales.

Hobart Festival of Women Writers Inaugural Calendar

“And that is why, every year, there is a season
of sadness, the hurricanes, in Great Water. They begin as
thunderstorms off the west coast of our world
They follow the path of the bones.”
— Alexis DeVeaux

The Intensive Workshops

The Intensive Workshop is an opportunity for serious, committed writers to explore, to be challenged and to grow by working directly with an award-winning, published writer. Immerse yourself in the inspiration of Hobart’s mountain vistas and focus on your writing craft in a small group setting.