Columbia Fiction Foundry president Ken Schept kicked off the Columbia Selects 2024-25 season with two other Writing Division graduates, Ines Rodrigues and Selden Cummings, on Thursday evening, November 7, at...

On Saturday, October 5, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted our annual Open House. Folks gathered at the Alumni Center in NYC for pastries, fresh fruit, coffee, tea and conversation.  It was...

An excerpt from Lu Han’s novel-in-progress, The Rusticated, has been published by The Adroit Journal. It can be found here: https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-nine/lu-han/ The Rusticated tells the story of Ling, a young...

Columbia Fiction Foundry has had a busy couple of months! In addition to our regular, bi-monthly workshops, CFF hosted two special events and, in March, a live, in-person/Zoom Saturday workshop...

           Parul Kapur Hinzen’s novel, Inside the Mirror, was awarded the 2022 AWP Prize for the Novel by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Inside...

On December 2nd, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted our first hybrid in-person/Zoom workshop since before COVID. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long!  It was wonderful to read and discuss...

On Saturday, October 14, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted our second annual Open House. The event was combined with a hybrid in-person/Zoom Annual Meeting at the newly refurbished Alumni Center at...

The Latest News from Columbia Fiction Foundry members: --Margaret (Margie) Winslow was named a finalist for the 2023 Debut Dagger Awardsponsored by the Crime Writers Association (UK), which is presented...

–Frank Napolitano’s historical novel, Day of Days: September 11, 2001, A Novel of the Fire Service, published by Toren James in 2021, was recently named a “Distinguished Favorite” by the...