On April 10th, 2025, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted a panel discussion with literary agents from the Agents Round Table, a consortium of independent literary agents. In a wide-ranging discussion moderated by...

The Columbia Fiction Foundry has released its 2025 Workshop Schedule. The writing workshops will be held twice a month in online Zoom sessions and in quarterly hybrid sessions with both...

Columbia Fiction Foundry sadly announces the shocking news that our member and friend Havilah Giannetta was struck and killed by a hit and run driver on Sunday, November 10, 2024,...

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...