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CFF 2026 Workshops Schedule Released

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CFF Presents: "How To Get Out of the Slush Pile" with Dawn Raffel

Watch Recording (Dec 2, 2025)

CFF Presents: The Role of Book Publicity with Jessie Glenn

Watch Recording (Nov 11, 2025)

CFF Presents: A Conversation with Jill Santopolo ('03CC)

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Jennifer Sears' Book Launch

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March 26, 2018

Video of Greer Hendricks Interview

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

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February 05, 2018

Jack Burger on How-To Books

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...

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October 09, 2016

Two Paths to Publication

The Columbia Fiction Foundry presents authors Julia Kite and Jennifer Kitses discussing "Two Paths to Publication," November 14th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the King's College Room of the...

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June 11, 2016

Query Shark - an excellent resource

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...

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May 22, 2016

How to build momentum in your...

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)....

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May 22, 2016

An evening with Folio Literary Agency

On May 18th, the Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted literary agents Erin Harris, Jeff Kleinman, and Dado Derviskadic, of Folio Literary Management, as part of the Foundry's "Distinguished Speakers" series. In a...

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January 18, 2016

Events of Interest--Upcoming Early in 2016...

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...

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December 31, 2015

Press button for... short story: French...

 From France: a new way of storytelling: https://www.rt.com/news/319609-grenoble-story-vending-machine         

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September 17, 2015

DEFINING GENRE

Defining Genre Beth Hill, author of The Magic of Fiction (available only as a $14 PDF download), has an informative two part post on The Editor's Blog titled Defining Genre, Part 1 and Part 2.  ...

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