Humbled & grateful to receive the Trailblazer Award from Film Albany & Discover Albany at today’s Film Industry Day. Thanks to Deb Goedeke & Patricia Fahy for the kind words. Beautiful crystal award. Thank you. NYS Writers Institute UAlbany News UAlbany Alumni Association #albanyfilmfestival

Don’t you dare miss it.

My story: Grondahl: Mark Ruffalo brings 'Ironweed' to life for one night in Brooklyn timesunion.com/news/article/g… via @TimesUnion

Mark your calendars: The 7th Annual Albany Book Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the University at Albany. Much more information to come. Sign up for email updates at nyswritersinstitute.org #albany bookfestival #fourmonthsfromtoday #books #writers #albany

Mark your calendars: The 7th Annual Albany Book Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the University at Albany. Much more information to come. Sign up for email updates at nyswritersinstitute.org #albany bookfestival #fourmonthsfromtoday #books #writers #albany

Friday was a powerful new iteration of Bill Kennedy’s stage version of “Ironweed” BAM and its long creative gestation starring g Mark Ruffalo & Jessica Hecht directed by Jodie Markell. Kennedy clan & Albany contingent included Albany Distilling Co w/Ironweed Whiskey. NYS Writers Institute

If you knew Grayce and loves her her, as we did, come share stories and help us celebrate her remarkable life. UAlbany Theatre

.V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan has won the $150,000 The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for Fiction, given annually to a woman or nonbinary author in the U.S. or Canada, for BROTHERLESS NIGHT. Ganeshananthan’s novel, published in 2023 by Random House Group, was also a finalist for this year’s Women's Prize. ow.ly/RvES50RG0i6

Please join us this Saturday, May 18, at University at Albany for a celebration of the life of Grayce Burian, former theatre professor, patron of the arts, and longtime benefactor of the NYS Writers Institute and the UAlbany Theatre Department. nyswritersinstitute.org/post/event-a-c…

'I’m Zimbabwean, grew up in a household that was a blend of Christianity and indigenous spirituality...'
Q&A with writer Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, author of the new collection 'Drinking from Graveyard Wells.'
nyswritersinstitute.org/post/q-a-with-… University Press of Kentucky #writers #writers community

We're collaborating with TAP Inc. of Troy NY to sponsor the Pride Month Mural Poem Contest.
The deadline for submissions is June 2. More details at nyswritersinstitute.org/post/call-for-…
#nonprofit #mission #lgbtq #poetry #enjoytroy #nyscouncilonthearts

The NYS Writers Institute is sponsoring a Writers Read event at City Winery in NYC on the topic of “changes.” 2 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Get tickets at citywinery.com/new-york-city/…
Writers Read - formerly Read650

The NYS Writers Institute is sponsoring a Writers Read event at City Winery in NYC on the topic of “changes.” 2 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Get tickets at citywinery.com/new-york-city/…
Writers Read - formerly Read650

RIP to a brilliant man of letters, a literary connector & BFF of Philip Roth. NYS Writers Institute Joel Conarroe, ‘Hub of the New York Literary Wheel,’ Dies at 89 nytimes.com/2024/05/03/boo…

NYS Writers Institute was proud to partner
on a creative writing #UAlbanyShowcase with student poets, essayists & fiction writers. Alongside Barzakh Magazine UAlbany English Department #archmagazine #writingcentwr Sarah Giragosian

Watch: Video from Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee’s 2012 NYS Writers Institute event at University at Albany. nyswritersinstitute.org/post/paul-aust… #paulauster #jmcoetzee

Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77
nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

Call for submissions: Stories from writers in the Capital Region. True stories about summer/summer camp. Listen to Paul Grondahl, Joe Donahue, and Writers Read - formerly Read650's Edward McCann for more info. nyswritersinstitute.org

'There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.' Harper Lee, born on this day in 1926

Michael Wolff passes up Trump’s trial for a corker of a NYS Writers Institute conversation w/Casey Seiler Times Union. Asked about Trump’s family, Wolff said: “He doesn’t give a sh*t about his kids.” Wolff also opined Andrew Cuomo could win NYC mayor race if Eric Adams is “pushed out.”