Jennifer Sears, a member of the CFF Executive Committee, held her book launch for her short story collection, What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, on November 21, 2025 at Books...

The following writers were recognized at the 2025 Open House/Annual Meeting for their recent publications, fiction and non-fiction.   Norah Marler ('17TC, '18TC): released a new book, Stop Parenting Adult...

CFF member Margrét Ann Thors ('10BAR, '11TC, '16SOA) signed a two-book deal with the publisher Spiegel & Grau who will release her first novel Freyja. Publication is planned for fall...

Author and CFF co-founder Ralph White ('94Bus) was on MSNBC's Morning Joe discussing his book Getting Out of Saigon. The April 30, 2025 segment was on the 50th anniversary of...

Jennifer Sears Columbia Fiction Foundry member, Jennifer Sears, has won the 2025 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for her short story collection, What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, to be...

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...

           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...

–Frank Napolitano’s historical novel, Day of Days: September 11, 2001, A Novel of the Fire Service, published by Toren James in 2021, was recently named a “Distinguished Favorite” by the...

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...

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...