September 25, 2020 CA: Congratulations, Julieta, on publishing Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment. I was present at most of the Columbia Fiction Foundry sessions when you...

CFF member Edward Evans recommends this website featuring several authors' writing tips: Open Culture. The site's daily emails are frequently interesting too. CFF member Jennifer Kitses recommends this Literary Hub article...

  On October 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., novelist Amy Blumenfeld will be featured in a guest speaker event to be held in the Shapiro Room of the Columbia...

If you missed Ralph White's March 14, 2018 interview of author Greer Hendricks, here's the link to the video.

The Long and the Short of How-To Books for the Writer - Three Examples Why read books about writing when you could actually be doing it? Maybe they have suggestions...

Janet Reid is an agent who will mercilessly tear apart query letters. Right now there are 277 queries (many revised several times) with her brutal honesty about what works and...

Literary agent Jeff Kleinman, a recent guest at the Columbia Fiction Foundry, recommends these tips from writer Lee Child ("The Killing Floor", "The Enemy", the Jack Reacher series of thrillers)....

What do literary agents want? You’ll have an opportunity to learn from three of them on May 18th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, when Erin Harris, Jeff Kleinman, and Dado...

Aspiring fiction writers, mark your calendars! Several exciting events featuring novelists talking about craft are coming soon, and most are free. Jenny Offill, author of 2014's acclaimed Dept. of Speculation, will...