Writers Institute

Authors will be added as they are announced.

Please visit https://www.albanybookfestival.com for details and schedules.

Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award for the novel, Charming Billy (1998), is the author most recently of the novel, Someone (2013), the story of one woman’s “ordinary” life across the decades of the 20th century in an Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, New York. Someone was named a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

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Lydia Davis, short story author and translator

Carolyn Forché is one of those writers/speakers that you just don't want to miss!

Biotech Auditorium (RPI)

Anne Enright, award-winning Irish fiction writer, is the author most recently of the novel The Forgotten Waltz (2011), a story of desire, the

Elijah Anderson's new book is an exploration of public space- libraries, work places, stores, etc. - where racial and ethnic tensions seem to disappear.