Recent video highlights

In the Fall of 2008, the Writers Institute began digitizing it's entire archive — 25 years of presentations by nearly 900 novelists, journalists, poets, playwrights and filmmakers, totalling more than 2,000 hours of readings, seminars and interviews. Here are some highlights of our most recent visiting writers.

EXPLORE VISITING WRITERS VIDEO ARCHIVES: The NYSWI video archive will be updated periodically. Check here for new additions.

The late Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe
New York State Writers Institute
October 1998

"Some people think I'm a trouble maker. . . Why does he raise these issues? (26:31)

Colman Domingo
New York State Writers Institute
February 4, 2013

"I've been trying to archive . . . maybe moments in my family . . .(1:07)

Colman Doming's visit to NYSWI

	Christa Parravani New York State Writers Institute March 7, 2013 "I did the thing that many amateur writers do, attempt to write the hardest part of the book first . . .(3:02) Christa Parravani's visit to NYSWI
	George Saunders New York State Writers Institute February 20, 2013 "Street humor, fast speech, wise cracks, pop culture . . .I had blocked that out as somehow being low. . .(3:51) George Saunders's visit to NYSWI
	Jorgen Randers New York State Writers Institute February 6, 2013 "The inportant thing about the world in 2052 is that it's much smaller. There are much fewer people and the economy is much smaller. . .(10:30 Jorgen Randers's visit to NYSWI
	WELCOME to the New York State Writers Institute! Director Donald Faulkner was recently featured on C-SPAN2 Book TV and C-SPAN3 American History TV’s special segment on Albany, NY "We go far and wide, find the best writers that we can and bring them to Albany. . .(9:36)

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