Writing

Writing Faculty at New Harlem Reading Series

Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program faculty members Margo Jefferson and Sam Lipsyte will participate in the opening reading of the First Person Plural Reading Series, presented by the FPP Harlem Collective on March 5.

Writing Faculty Timothy Donnelly Receives Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Columbia University School of the Arts is pleased to announce that Timothy Donnelly, Associate Professor of Writing, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation (Wave, Picador). The annual award, offered through the Claremont Graduate University, is one of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive.
Writing Alumni at Sundance 2012

Two alumni of the School of the Arts Writing Program in Nonfiction have inspired films that will be featured at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Ben Marcus Publishes THE FLAME ALPHABET

Ben Marcus: The Flame AlphabetWriting faculty Ben Marcus' most recent novel, The Flame Alphabet, will be released by Knopf on January 17. It is the story of an epidemic that sweeps the country, making the sound of children's voices lethal.

Writing Alumni and Faculty Featured in 2011 Best American Collections

Writing Alumni and Faculty Featured in 2011 Best American Collections

Two Nonfiction Alums published in Best American Essays 2011:
Rachel Riederer (’11 SOA) "Patient"
Bridget Potter (’11 SOA) "Lucky Girl"

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New Faculty Join the Columbia Writing Program: Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford and Phillip Lopate

This year, The Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts welcomed three new faculty members: Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford and Phillip Lopate.

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell ('06 SOA) Named NY Times' Ten Best of '11, to Air on HBO
Karen Russell's ('06 SOA) most recent novel Swamplandia! was listed as one of "The Ten Best Books of 2011" by The New York Times.
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Joins Columbia Faculty
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Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University’s Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, announced today the appointment of novelist Richard Ford as the soon-to-be-established Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at Columbia University. Ford will teach in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Richard Locke | 'Critical Children'
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Richard Locke, Writing Professor, recently published Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels

Writing Professor Margo Jefferson Interviewed for The Days of Yore

Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program professor Margo Jefferson was interviewed recently for The Days of Yore. Jefferson, an alumna of the Columbia Journalism School, is a cultural critic whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Magazine and Vogue. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1995, and more recently gained critical acclaim for her 2006 book, On Michael Jackson

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