Nominate us for Best of the Capital Region!

The Times Union's 25th Annual Best of the Capital Region readers’ survey opened up for nominations today.

While there’s no category for" Best Cultural Organization That Connects Writers and Readers," we hope to get on the ballot.

Want to help us out? This will only take a minute.

Go to

https://www.timesunion.com/bestof2022/ and click Best of the Rest

Under "Best festival," click Nominate for Albany Book Festival

Under "Best reason to brag to out of towners about the Capital Region," click Nominate for NYS Writers Institute

The nomination phase will run through Feb. 4. The top five nominations will move onto the voting round which will run from Feb. 21 to March 4.

Help us spread the word about the NYS Writers Institute, bringing the world’s greatest writers to Albany since 1983. Thanks!