New York State Writers Institute

Spring 2010 Visiting Writers Series

Allen Ballard

Audio recorded at the Writers Institute
February 2, 2010, (59:00)

Introduction by Professor Leonard Slade, Department of Africana Studies

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DONOR APPRECIATION
The New York State Writers Institute gratefully acknowledges the following corporations and individuals for their generous support of the Institute's 25th Anniversary Community Campaign:

Barnes & Noble Booksellers

University Auxiliary Services at Albany

Pamela Brown
Tom Birdsey, EYP
Pernille Dake
Jeanne Finley
Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jones, Jr.
Chet and Karen Opalka
Mary Scanlan
Lew and Pat Titterton
Charles Touhey and Alice Green

UPCOMING EVENTS

Fred LeBrun, journalist
February 11 (Thursday)
8:00 p.m. Reading/Talk | Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus
Norberto Fuentes, journalist
February 18, (Thursday)
4:15 p.m. Seminar | Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus
8:00 p.m. Reading | Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus
LOLA
February 19 (Friday)
7:30 p.m. Film screening | Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus

For a Complete Schedule of Events go to:
Spring 2010 Visiting Writers Series and Spring 2010 Classic Film Series

WRITERS NEWS

Spring 2010 Writing Workshops - Writers Institute Fellow James Lasdum will be offering two workshops in the spring. One is for Nonfiction writing the other is for The Art of Short Story writing.
Uniquely New York - As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebration the Writers Institution will be realeasing its choices for the 25 best books with a New York theme. The first 10 have been released.
Writers Institute audio/video archive highlighted in Fall 2009 issue of
"New York Archives"
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