NYS Writes Institute Announces Slate of Spring Events
ALBANY — The New York State Writers Institute has announced its Spring 2024 schedule of events.
The events are free and open to the public and mostly take place on the University at Albany’s Uptown Campus. Some require registration. Events include:
Jan. 31 – Elizabeth Benedict, essayist, novelist and writing coach. 7:30 p.m.— Reading / Conversation with Robert Boyers, Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West Addition. Author of the eternally popular how-to book, The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers (1996), Elizabeth Benedict applies her talents to retelling the story of her recent encounter with cancer in Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own (2023).
Feb. 1 – Sandra Guzmán, storyteller, editor and filmmaker. 7:30 p.m.— Reading / Conversation, Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Sandra Guzmán, Afro Indigenous storyteller and literary editor, presents her new anthology, Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), a dazzling collection of essential works by 140 Latin American and indigenous writers— many of them translated into English for the first time.
Feb. 5 – Ruben Santiago-Hudson, playwright, actor, director. The 26th Annual Burian Lecture — 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 8 – Aaliyah Bilal, author of Temple Folk. 7:30 p.m.— Reading / Conversation, Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 22 – Karin Lin-Greenberg, novelist and short story writer. 4:30 p.m.— Conversation / Q&A, Assembly Hall (2nd Floor), Campus Center.
Feb. 27 – William Wegman. 7 p.m. — Conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue, Main Theatre, UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Beloved American artist known throughout the world for photographs and videos that feature his Weimaraner dogs in a variety of costumes and poses.
More: February 29 – Richard Mirabella, novelist and short story writer; March 5 – Prachi Gupta, memoirist and journalist; March 6 – Molly Guptill Manning, bestselling author, historian and UAlbany alum; March 14 – Alice Green, activist and memoirist, and Amy Godine, Adirondack historian; March 18 – Andrew Kirtzman and Terry Golway, mayoral biographers; March 20 – Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nonfiction; March 26 – Lydia Davis, author of essays and short, short fiction in conversation with acclaimed author and UAlbany professor Lynne Tillman; April 11 – Alice McDermott, one of the leading novelists of her generation, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Absolution (2023).
For a complete list of times, venues and appearances, films and other associated events, go to www.nyswritersinstitute.org.