Query Tips from Agents
What Agents Really Want: Part Two by Natalie R Collins Dear Author: Your work sounds intriguing. I would be interested in seeing the first fifty pages, along with a...
Slicky Boy
SLICKY BOY “You never heard of ‘slicky boys’ stateside? You don’t know crap about Korea!” My bunkmate, Gerald Thurston, First Lieutenant Gerald P. Thurston,...
Linda Trice Speaking Engagement
Linda Trice, who received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, will be speaking on From Pen to Publication, Wednesday May 14, 2014 at 7:00 PM in the Manhasset...
Book Review: The Hollow Ground by...
The Hollow Ground By Natalie Harnett Review by Ralph White The Columbia Fiction FoundryYou’re going to be seeing a lot more of Natalie Harnett. With The Hollow Ground she has...
Measuring America's Shakespeare Devotion
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
How Fiction Works James WoodPicador, 2009 Mr. Woods’ book is used in the Writing Program at Columbia and its principles are frequently referred to in the deliberations of the Columbia...
Self-Editing For Fiction Writers
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Renni Browne and Dave KingWilliam Morrow, 2004 A Review by the Authors ThemselvesAmazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteThis is a verbatim handout in a clinic the authors...
Characters, Emotions, & Viewpoint
Characters, Emotion, and Viewpoint Nancy KressWriters’ Digest, 2005 "Improving Your Chances"Amazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteYour first highly selective handful of query letters to literary agents resulted in a few...
Special December Meeting | Ellis Avery...
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...
Hellfighter
Hellfighter is a contemporary historical fiction novel that explores and shows the tension in the US at the end of WWI when the soldiers returned home, resulting in Red Summer. The protagonist,...
Submissions
March submissions due by February 22, 2014 at 11:59pm.Dear Fiction Foundry, Rather than slogging through the chilling sleet and traversing the puddled corners of our slush-bound city, I hope you are...
A Slice of Heaven
A Slice of Heaven is a short story published by CFF President, Ralph White. It originally appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Connecticut Muse Literary Magazine. Here's Ralph: "I originally heard...