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Now that you’ve worked with talented writers, it’s time to work with their editors. Following the proven success of our Non-Fiction classes, The Writers’ Institute launches its Fiction program in 2010 with Jonathan Galassi (President and publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Deborah Treisman (Fiction Editor, The New Yorker), Nathaniel Rich (Senior Editor, The Paris Review) and John Freeman (Editor, Granta). Continue reading
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The Writers’ Institute was born with a very simple mission: to bring the very best and most celebrated editors in New York City to fifteen of this country’s most talented, aspiring writers. Just take a look at our eminent faculty. Continue reading
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“An editor can take something that is cluttered and heavy and make it lithe and supple, and ultimately turn it into something enchanting.” (Published on Folio, Spring 2009) Continue reading
Deadline for submitting applications for the 2012-13 academic year had been extended to Tuesday May 15th, 2012.
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Dmitry Kiper, a current nonfiction fellow, reviews The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years: “In the twenty-five minutes it takes to drive from Berkeley to San Francisco—in the spring of 2010—Greil Marcus made a curious discovery. Flipping through radio stations in search Read more…

The panel was introduced and moderated by Christopher Cox, senior editor at Harper’s and former fiction editor at The Paris Review. Our guests included: Joan Acocella, Rivka Galchen, Alex Ross and David Samuels. Joan Acocella is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she Read more…

New York City’s Top Magazine Writers Discuss their Craft Tuesday February 7th, 7-9pm The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street) Skylight Room, 9th Floor Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to: WritersInstitute@gmail.com The panel will be introduced and moderated by Christopher Read more…

On a blustery November night, a crowd of friends, agents, and editors packed the elegant reading room at the Center for Fiction to hear fourteen writers from the Writers’ Institute read from their works. Several of the authors – with professional careers as journalists, academics, Read more…

Dmitry Kiper, a current fellow in the nonfiction program, reviews Tom Waits’ new album in The Brooklyn Rail: “Bums. Drunks. Prostitutes. Travelers. Nighthawks. Hustlers. Throughout the 1970s—under the spell of Jack Kerouac, Edward Hopper, and Charles Bukowski—Tom Waits told sad, comic tales of the down-and-out. Read more…

Leah Anderst, a nonfiction program alum, recently published this essay in The Morning News: “In New York’s St. John the Divine Cathedral, a letter to a dead man, tucked under a plaque near his ashes, offers the first and only clue in a mystery about Read more…






















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