WRITERS NEWS

Fall 2008 Visiting Writer Schedule Sneak Preview Expands with:

ANDRE DUBUS III
Fiction writer, author of the international bestselling novel House of Sand and Fog: 
Tuesday, September 16

Anne Enright, award-winning Irish fiction writer: Thursday, October 2
Alice Fulton, award-winning poet and fiction writer, and Troy native: Tuesday, November 11

Welcome!
The Writers Institute is pleased to welcome Sheila Curran Bernard, Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker, to its staff in September 2008 as Director of Media Programs. In a joint University at Albany appointment, she will also serve as Associate Director of  Documentary Studies. Bernard will assist the Institute with the development of new media productions, making use of the Institute’s extensive audio/video archive of visiting writer appearances; public programming in documentary films and filmmaking; and community workshops in documentary film development and script writing.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• New York State Summer Summer Writers Insititute
  June 30 - July 25, 2008
  Summer Reading Series at Skidmore
  

CONTACT INFORMATION:
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