Each semester the Writers Institute sponsors residencies of varying lengths by authors who have distinguished themselves both for their writing and their teaching. Free community writing workshops are regularly offered in tandem with these residencies. Some visiting writers are involved in writing and/or literature courses for academic credit at the University at Albany's Department of English.

Fall 2007

Fiction Master Class by Lydia Davis Guidelines

Previous Writers-in-Residence included:

Douglas Bauer	Elizabeth Benedict	Cara Benson	Langdon Brown	Angela Carter	Lydia Davis	Carolyn Forché
Douglas Glover	Eamon Grennan	James Lasdun	Antonine Maillet	Judith Malina	John Montague	Joan Murray

William Patrick

Jerome Rothenberg

Edward Sanders

Le Anne Schreiber

Richard Selzer