Coming up

September 6

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SEFCU Arena, UAlbany Uptown Campus

September 14

Our Second Annual Celebration of Books and Booklovers

Saturday, Sept. 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

September 17

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The Writers Institute in NYC with author Beth Macy

Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m.
SUNY Global Center in New York City

September

Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019

University at Albany

The NYS Writers Institute presents the 2nd Annual Albany Book Festival Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, at the University at Albany Uptown Campus.

Interested in helping us as a volunteer? Email us at writers@albany.edu

We're announcing more authors and special events throughout August.

Jamaica Kincaid

Helon Habila

Ken Druse

Abigail Thomas

Madhur Jaffrey

Eric Foner

Allison Pataki

Wayétu Moore

Margaret Roach

Harold Holzer

Nafkote Tamirat

Dani Shapiro

Cherrie Moraga

Ricardo Cortés

Joyce Carol Oates

Sylvia Day

Uzodinma Iweala

Lew Bryson

Craig Gravina

An Evening with Dan Rather

7:30 p.m. Friday, September 6

, 2019

SEFCU Arena, University at Albany

Tickets: Free but required for entry.

Now available at UAlbany.universitytickets.com

It is no exaggeration to call Dan Rather the voice of a generation, and in this special evening, he shares a wealth of anecdotes and insightful commentary on national and global news.

Rather's recent New York Times bestseller, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, offers a collection of original essays about the world we live in, what our core ideals have been and should be, and what it means to be an American.

The Dan Rather event on Friday, Sept. 6, is a kickoff for the 2nd Annual Book Festival, to be held on Saturday, Sept. 14.

Toni Morrison 1931-2019

The New York State Writers Institute mourns the passing of Toni Morrison, a giant of world literature, who was Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at UAlbany and a member of our office family during the very beginnings of our organization in the mid-1980s.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison wrote 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections. Among them were celebrated works like Song of Solomon, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

READ TROLLEY, OUR ONLINE JOURNAL

The third edition of Trolley, an online literary journal produced by the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany can be found at www.trolleyjournal.com.

Trolley's 20 contributors shared essays on their favorite books and writers. Their essays praise the works of iconic writers and poets -- Tolstoy, Orwell, Mary Oliver, Langston Hughes, J.D. Salinger -- as well as more recent writers -- R.h. Sin, Rupi Kaur and Courtney Peppernell -- whose words make a lasting connection.

Enjoy the Trolley essays and share your thoughts and comments at www.trolleyjournal.com