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...

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 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,...

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 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...

Girl in Translation Jean KwokRiverhead, 2011 Jean Kwok, MFA ’97, is one the most instantly successful graduates of Columbia University’s Writing Program.  Her debut novel, Girl in Translation was published...

The Last Nude Ellis Avery Riverhead Books 2012   Ellis Avery is a professor in the Writing Program at Columbia and was a guest speaker at the group’s December 2013...

Found Objects Peter Gelfan Nortia Press, 2013   Mr. Gelfan was one of the Columbia Fiction Foundry’s first guests. He is an editor with The Editorial Department and comes highly...

  October 5 Meeting of the physical version of the Columbia Fiction Foundry

From left to right: Ralph White, Bill Marden, Melissa Bell, Jean Kwok, Richard Hensley, Rachel Augustin, Emily Arnold, Connie Kopeck

Fiction Foundry President, Ralph White, interviewing Columbia alumna and best selling author, Jean Kwok (Girl in Translation).