THE NEW YORK TIMES Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion By WILLIAM GRIMES MARCH 19, 2014 March 20, 2014 - The collection, edited by the eminent Shakespearean James Shapiro, a professor at Columbia, begins with a...

How Fiction Works James Wood Picador, 2009 Mr. Woods’ book is used in the Writing Program at Columbia and its principles are frequently referred to in the deliberations of the...

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Renni Browne and Dave King William Morrow, 2004 A Review by the Authors Themselves Amazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteThis is a verbatim handout in a clinic...

Characters, Emotion, and Viewpoint Nancy Kress Writers’ Digest, 2005   "Improving Your Chances" Amazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteYour first highly selective handful of query letters to literary agents resulted in...

Hillary Jordan, CU MFA, is the bestselling author of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel, Mudbound.   She and Professor Ellis Avery, of Columbia’s Writing Program, addressed the Fiction Foundry in December of...

Poets & Writers puts out tools for writers.  One such tool is an entry level guide to literary agents.  Link to the article here.

Girl in Translation Jean Kwok Riverhead, 2011   Jean Kwok, MFA ’97, is one the most instantly successful graduates of Columbia University’s Writing Program.  Her debut novel, Girl in Translation...

The Last Nude Ellis Avery Riverhead Books 2012   Ellis Avery is a professor in the Writing Program at Columbia and was a guest speaker at the group’s December 2013...

Found Objects Peter Gelfan Nortia Press, 2013   Mr. Gelfan was one of the Columbia Fiction Foundry’s first guests. He is an editor with The Editorial Department and comes highly...