NYS Writers Institute
@nyswi.bsky.social
Center for literary arts in New York State, based at the University at Albany. www.nyswritersinstitute.org
Excellence! Join us Tuesday, Feb 3 at @albany.edu, for a conversation with @bradstulberg.bsky.social, author of "The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World." Moderated by @mikechristakis.bsky.social. Info at www.nyswritersinstitute.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Excellence! Join us Tuesday, Feb 3 at @albany.edu, for a conversation with @bradstulberg.bsky.social, author of "The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World." Moderated by @mikechristakis.bsky.social. Info at www.nyswritersinstitute.org
THURSDAY -- Event reminder: Conversation with Adam Aleksic, author of Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (2025). 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at UAlbany. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/adamaleksic
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
THURSDAY -- Event reminder: Conversation with Adam Aleksic, author of Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (2025). 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at UAlbany. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/adamaleksic
Good morning. Tune in to @wamc.org at 11 today - Wed - to hear Paul Grondahl and Joe Donahue chat about our season of 31 events coming your way!
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Good morning. Tune in to @wamc.org at 11 today - Wed - to hear Paul Grondahl and Joe Donahue chat about our season of 31 events coming your way!
Thanks to @thomasdimo.bsky.social for his season overview published in The Daily Gazette. First event coming up on .... Thursday! #supportlocaljournalism #518
www.dailygazette.com/life_and_art...
www.dailygazette.com/life_and_art...
From the iconic to the visionary – NYS Writers Institute set to present new season
ALBANY — The New York State Writers Institute will launch its 2026 spring season Thursday. Journalist, author and NYSWI Director Paul Grondahl calls the schedule-making a commitment to inspire, enligh...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Thanks to @thomasdimo.bsky.social for his season overview published in The Daily Gazette. First event coming up on .... Thursday! #supportlocaljournalism #518
www.dailygazette.com/life_and_art...
www.dailygazette.com/life_and_art...
William Kennedy, our founder, our north star, celebrates his 98th birthday today. Congratulations!
His son Brendan shared this photo from a gathering at the family home yesterday.
Earlier this week we put out a call for birthday wishes. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/happy-9...
His son Brendan shared this photo from a gathering at the family home yesterday.
Earlier this week we put out a call for birthday wishes. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/happy-9...
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
William Kennedy, our founder, our north star, celebrates his 98th birthday today. Congratulations!
His son Brendan shared this photo from a gathering at the family home yesterday.
Earlier this week we put out a call for birthday wishes. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/happy-9...
His son Brendan shared this photo from a gathering at the family home yesterday.
Earlier this week we put out a call for birthday wishes. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/happy-9...
Love it! Our friends at the Upper Hudson Library System have created a curated Libby collection of books and audiobooks by the writers appearing in our upcoming season. Check it out *no pun intended* at libbyapp.com/library/uhls...
#books
#books
January 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Love it! Our friends at the Upper Hudson Library System have created a curated Libby collection of books and audiobooks by the writers appearing in our upcoming season. Check it out *no pun intended* at libbyapp.com/library/uhls...
#books
#books
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Happy 98th birthday to William Kennedy, the powerhouse reporter and novelist whose imaginative map of the place I call home has been studied by readers around the planet. Here's what I wrote two years ago on the occasion of the @nyswi.bsky.social community reading of "Ironweed."
Seiler: William Kennedy's 'Ironweed,' celebrated in style
A marathon public reading of William Kennedy's classic 1983 novel "Ironweed" reminds us...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Happy 98th birthday to William Kennedy, the powerhouse reporter and novelist whose imaginative map of the place I call home has been studied by readers around the planet. Here's what I wrote two years ago on the occasion of the @nyswi.bsky.social community reading of "Ironweed."
Literary lion William Kennedy turns 98 on Friday.
We're collecting birthday greetings that we'll share with Bill and on our website and social media.
Post a note here or send it to mhuber@albany.edu by Wednesday. Thanks!
#authors #literature #albany #writers
We're collecting birthday greetings that we'll share with Bill and on our website and social media.
Post a note here or send it to mhuber@albany.edu by Wednesday. Thanks!
#authors #literature #albany #writers
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Literary lion William Kennedy turns 98 on Friday.
We're collecting birthday greetings that we'll share with Bill and on our website and social media.
Post a note here or send it to mhuber@albany.edu by Wednesday. Thanks!
#authors #literature #albany #writers
We're collecting birthday greetings that we'll share with Bill and on our website and social media.
Post a note here or send it to mhuber@albany.edu by Wednesday. Thanks!
#authors #literature #albany #writers
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PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
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January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
We're announcing our upcoming season on our website very soon. Visit www.nyswritersinstitute.org to sign up for our email newsletter. #books #literature #poetry #newsmakers
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
We're announcing our upcoming season on our website very soon. Visit www.nyswritersinstitute.org to sign up for our email newsletter. #books #literature #poetry #newsmakers
Let's back at our "eventful" 2025: We welcomed more than 17,800 attendees to more than 70 events. Taking the rest of the year off. :-) www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/a-year-... #ualbany #albany #books #writers #literature @ualbanynews.bsky.social
A year in photos: NYS Writers Institute in 2025
As we close the chapter on 2025, we’re proud to share a few highlights from our 42nd year of bringing Pulitzer Prize winners, debut novelists, young writers, newsmakers, and thought leaders to our aud...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Let's back at our "eventful" 2025: We welcomed more than 17,800 attendees to more than 70 events. Taking the rest of the year off. :-) www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/a-year-... #ualbany #albany #books #writers #literature @ualbanynews.bsky.social
Literary Sunday: Novelist Victoria Redel in conversation with Paul Grondahl. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Nine Pin Cider, Albany. Details >>> www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/event-a...
A Sunday conversation: Author and poet Victoria Redel
Paul Grondahl will moderate a discussion with Victoria Redel, author of the new book I Am You, on Sunday, Dec. 14...
www.nyswritersinstitute.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Literary Sunday: Novelist Victoria Redel in conversation with Paul Grondahl. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Nine Pin Cider, Albany. Details >>> www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/event-a...
Today is Giving Tuesday and we're highlighting four groups - two in #Albany, two at @albany.edu -- who can use your support now more than ever. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/helping...
#GivingTuesday2025
#GivingTuesday2025
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today is Giving Tuesday and we're highlighting four groups - two in #Albany, two at @albany.edu -- who can use your support now more than ever. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/helping...
#GivingTuesday2025
#GivingTuesday2025
Tuesday's conversation on AI & Society at @ualbany has been cancelled. A developing winter storm may bring several inches of snow to region starting Tuesday morning.
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tuesday's conversation on AI & Society at @ualbany has been cancelled. A developing winter storm may bring several inches of snow to region starting Tuesday morning.
Join us at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, for a conversation with
@newyorker.com writer and debut novelist Dennard Dayle. www.nyswritersinstitute.org Free and open to the public.
@newyorker.com writer and debut novelist Dennard Dayle. www.nyswritersinstitute.org Free and open to the public.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, for a conversation with
@newyorker.com writer and debut novelist Dennard Dayle. www.nyswritersinstitute.org Free and open to the public.
@newyorker.com writer and debut novelist Dennard Dayle. www.nyswritersinstitute.org Free and open to the public.
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Just finished rereading William Kennedy's Albany triology and the internet says this magnificent storyteller is still with us. Sure he's not on the internet. Can someone march to his door and slip a note under it thanking him from me and the rest of the planet? Thx much.
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just finished rereading William Kennedy's Albany triology and the internet says this magnificent storyteller is still with us. Sure he's not on the internet. Can someone march to his door and slip a note under it thanking him from me and the rest of the planet? Thx much.
During Wednesday’s all-day (noon to 8 p.m.) marathon reading of William Kennedy’s 1975 novel Legs, we will be collecting cash donations to benefit the Sacred Heart Food Pantry, located at Kennedy’s former parish in North Albany. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
During Wednesday’s all-day (noon to 8 p.m.) marathon reading of William Kennedy’s 1975 novel Legs, we will be collecting cash donations to benefit the Sacred Heart Food Pantry, located at Kennedy’s former parish in North Albany. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
We're kicking off November with a special conversation at 7:30 this evening [Monday, Nov. 3] with Sam Tanenhaus, former editor of The New York Times Book Review. Moderated by our very own Paul Grondahl. Details at www.nyswritersinstitute.org
#greatbiography #goodread
#greatbiography #goodread
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We're kicking off November with a special conversation at 7:30 this evening [Monday, Nov. 3] with Sam Tanenhaus, former editor of The New York Times Book Review. Moderated by our very own Paul Grondahl. Details at www.nyswritersinstitute.org
#greatbiography #goodread
#greatbiography #goodread
Today at @albany.edu, Adam Johnson, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 4:30 p.m. Tues, Oct 28. nyswritersinstitute.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today at @albany.edu, Adam Johnson, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 4:30 p.m. Tues, Oct 28. nyswritersinstitute.org
Tuesday at @albany.edu -- Adam Johnson, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 4:30 p.m. Tues, Oct 28. www.nyswritersinstitute.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tuesday at @albany.edu -- Adam Johnson, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 4:30 p.m. Tues, Oct 28. www.nyswritersinstitute.org
In two weeks, on Wed. Nov. 5, join us at Albany Distilling Co. for our marathon reading of William Kennedy's novel "Legs." You can sign up to read or just grab a drink and listen in.
More info at nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
#novels #albany #williamkennedy #literature
More info at nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
#novels #albany #williamkennedy #literature
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In two weeks, on Wed. Nov. 5, join us at Albany Distilling Co. for our marathon reading of William Kennedy's novel "Legs." You can sign up to read or just grab a drink and listen in.
More info at nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
#novels #albany #williamkennedy #literature
More info at nyswritersinstitute.org/legs
#novels #albany #williamkennedy #literature
Join us Thursday at @albany.edu for a special conversation with Michael Luo, @newyorker.com executive editor and author of a landmark work of American history, "Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America." @michaelluo.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Join us Thursday at @albany.edu for a special conversation with Michael Luo, @newyorker.com executive editor and author of a landmark work of American history, "Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America." @michaelluo.bsky.social
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Scott Turow resurrects attorney Rusty Sabich in 'Presumed Guilty' www.timesunion.com/books/articl... @nyswi.bsky.social @northshirebooks.bsky.social
Scott Turow resurrects attorney Rusty Sabich in 'Presumed Guilty'
The author will be on hand Monday, Oct. 20 for appearance with the New York State Writers Institute
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October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Scott Turow resurrects attorney Rusty Sabich in 'Presumed Guilty' www.timesunion.com/books/articl... @nyswi.bsky.social @northshirebooks.bsky.social
Coming Monday: Scott Turow in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue.
7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20
Page Hall - UAlbany Downtown Campus
Books will be sold.
A signing will follow the conversation.
The event is free and open to the public.
www.nyswritersinstitute.org/scottturow
7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20
Page Hall - UAlbany Downtown Campus
Books will be sold.
A signing will follow the conversation.
The event is free and open to the public.
www.nyswritersinstitute.org/scottturow
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Coming Monday: Scott Turow in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue.
7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20
Page Hall - UAlbany Downtown Campus
Books will be sold.
A signing will follow the conversation.
The event is free and open to the public.
www.nyswritersinstitute.org/scottturow
7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20
Page Hall - UAlbany Downtown Campus
Books will be sold.
A signing will follow the conversation.
The event is free and open to the public.
www.nyswritersinstitute.org/scottturow
Special event: Conversation with André Aciman, the bestselling author of the contemporary classic, Call Me by Your Name, and more recently, Room on the Sea. 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 16, at UAlbany. nyswritersinstitute.org/andreaciman
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Special event: Conversation with André Aciman, the bestselling author of the contemporary classic, Call Me by Your Name, and more recently, Room on the Sea. 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 16, at UAlbany. nyswritersinstitute.org/andreaciman