CFF Co-founder and past president Ralph White’s memoir, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese, published by Simon & Schuster, launches in April 2023. Praised as...

On February 2nd, 2023, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted a panel discussion with agents from DeFiore & Company. In a wide-ranging discussion, CFF members learned from industry experts Brian DeFiore, Miriam...

Check out some exciting updates from CFF members! Bell’s Romeo & Juliet prequel to be a novel; Two other plays will be performed CFF member and playwright, Melissa Bell, has been...

On April 23, 2022, Columbia Fiction Foundry welcomed Frances Cha, author of the critically acclaimed IF I HAD YOUR FACE. Frances’ debut novel, published by Penguin Random House, was named...

VIRTUAL FICTION FOUNDRY PREPARES FOR SOFT LAUNCH Will Hughes and Merlin The demands of Covid forced the Columbia Fiction Foundry to seek new ways to hold workshops. The Alumni Center...

CFF member Debra Green Feldman’s The Convention of Wives, will be published in September 2022 by She Writes Press. Debra, whose pen name is Debra Green, has always been drawn...

My Pilgrimage to Publication of the novel, The Serpent Papers By Jeff Schnader This is an abridged version of the article published in Bookscover2cover. For the full, unabridged version, see:...

DAY OF DAYS, Frank Napolitano (Toren James Publishing, Sept. 2021) THE SERPENT PAPERS, Jeff Schnader (The Permanent Press, Jan. 2022) POETRY MEMOIRS, Mary Freericks (Amazon) MY INDUSTRIOUS NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, Michael Vines (JewishFiction.net)...

September 25, 2020 This interview with Julieta Almeida Rodrigues was conducted by Catarina Abreu. Both are members of the Columbia Fiction Foundry. CA: Congratulations, Julieta, on publishing Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy,...

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.