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Story Week Festival of Writers
Story Week Festival of Writers is an annual
week-long series of readings, conversations, and panel discussions
that celebrates the power of story. Festival participants are Columbia's
own students and fiction writing faculty, as well as authors and
members of the publishing industry from all over the world. Past
participants include Sherman Alexie, Dorothy Allison, A. Manette
Ansay, Edwidge Danticat, Don De Grazia, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Jane Hamilton, Charles Johnson, Joe Meno, Bharati Mukherjee, Richard
Price, Hubert Selby, Jr., April Sinclair, Irvine Welsh, John Edgar
Wideman, and many, many others.
Past Festivals
Story
Week Festival of Writers 2003: In Search of the American Story
Story
Week Festival of Writers 2004: Story and the Sister Arts
Story Week
Festival of Writers 2005: The Politics of Story
Story Week
Festival of Writers 2006: Stories of Risk and Rebellion
Creative Nonfiction Week:
brings distinguished creative non-fiction writers to the campus
for a week of literary events.
Readings in the Raw (Literarily, That
Is): open to all graduate students who
have completed work or work in progress.
Rookie Readings:
open to Intro, Fiction I and Fiction II students.
Advanced Readings:
open to Prose Forms and Advanced students.
Submission Drive:
sponsored by the Fiction Writing Department Student Board, we pay
the postage for you to submit your work to magazines.
Fiction Writers at Lunch (once a week):
a convivial, free brown bag lunch and/or dinner meeting of Fiction
Writing Students to discuss their writing and listen to the writing
of professional authors.
Young Authors High School Writing Contest:
an event sponsored yearly by the department.
Hair Trigger Publications Release
Reception: an annual event to celebrate
the publication of Hair Trigger, our annually published anthology
of student writing.
John Schultz and Betty Shiflett Story
Workshop Scholarship Awards Gala: a yearly
party to award scholarships.
Sylvia McNair Travel Story Scholarship
Award Ceremony: a yearly party to award
scholarships.
F Magazine Release Reading and
Party: a yearly event to celebrate the
publication of F Magazine's novels-in-progress issues.
Graduate Student Reception (Adventurers'
Club): an annual party and celebration
for students to acquaint them with our graduate programs and discuss
their concerns and questions about a variety of subjects including
the thesis.
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