In the Fall of 2008, the Writers Institute began digitizing it's entire archive — 25 years of presentations by nearly 900 novelists, journalists, poets, playwrights and filmmakers, totalling more than 2,000 hours of readings, seminars and interviews. Here are some highlights of our most recent visiting writers.
EXPLORE VISITING WRITERS VIDEO ARCHIVES: The NYSWI video archive will be updated periodically. Check here for new additions.
Jacinda Townsend
New York State Writers Institute
October 16, 2014 "Part of a character's struggle has to do with the ability to let the air in. . . " (3:29)
Tiphanie Yanique
New York State Writers Institute
October 16, 2014 "There was something magical about going after my own writing and discovering her's . . " (4:43)
David Finkel
New York State Writers Institute
October 9, 2014 "The journalism that I do, I hope there's a story. . .It begins with a question that I'm hoping my reporting will answer. . .
What becomes of a young man who goes into a war, in such a moment. . . " (3:41)
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
New York State Writers Institute
September 27, 2014 "They've never had a young mom in the senate . . . they don't know how to handle it . . . " (3:22)
John Lahr
New York State Writers Institute
October 1, 2014 "What Tennessee was doing in his plays was re-presenting, on stage, his internal life . . . " (3:20)
Alison Lurie
New York State Writers Institute
September 18, 2014 "They said Fairy Tales are bad for children, especially little girls because they're all about how you have to be beautiful and good and passive and sit there and take it.. . .and wait for your prince to come . . . " (2:53)
