Writers' Forum is Pratt Institute's bi-weekly reading series and discussion seminar specifically for students in the Writing Program. The writing majors in the course are responsible for researching, introducing, and engaging in discussion the working writers and editors who present, perform, and/or speak about their work.
To our advantage, New York City is the center of North American publishing and home to various, dynamic literary communities old and new. This forum is an extension of the living literature that finds its audience here. Writers’ Forum is a place to consider the ideas, motivations, methodologies, and careers of both local and visiting writers—among them essayists, novelists, poets, journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, editors, translators, critics, and performers—and to join in thoughtful conversations about writing with professionals in the field.
ATTENDING THE FORUM
While discussion groups are reserved for students enrolled in the course, Writers’ Forum readings are free and open to the public. Readings are held on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:50 PM in Pratt Institute’s Engineering Building, room number 307. Please refer to the calendar at left for the semester's schedule of readings. Each reading concludes with an open question and answer session. Books are occasionally for sale.
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PAST READERS INCLUDE . . .
Scott Adkins
A. Alcalay
Steve Almond
Jonathan Ames
Sini Andersen
Kurt Andersen
Doug Anderson
Taylor Antrim
Ralph Arlyck
Jen Banbury
Eric Banks
Ed Barrett
Joshua Beckman
Karen Brennan
Paul Brill
Lucie Brock-Broido
Susan Choi
Sonya Chung
Rachel Cohen
William Corbett
Lucy Corin
Brenda Coultas
Maureen Cummins
Erik Davis
Ruth Davis
Tim Davis
Dennis DiClaudio
Stacy Doris
Brian Evenson
Melissa Febos
Thalia Field
William Finnegan
Nick Flynn
Paula Fox
Mariah Fredericks
John Freitas
Sasha Frere-Jones
Mary Gaitskill
Joe Garden
Samantha Gillison
Aracelis Girmay
Kenneth Goldsmith
Judy Grahn
Jonathan Green
Lev Grossman Joe Hagan
David Hajdu
Matthea Harvey
Joshua Henkin
Jen Hofer
Noy Holland
David Hollander
Anna Holmes
Cathy Park Hong
Cynthia Hopkins
Eli Horowitz
Siri Hustvedt
Franck André Jamme
Lisa Jarnot
Van Jordan
Ferris Joshua
Bhanu Kapil
Amy Kellner
Michael Kimball
Starlee Kine
Noelle Kocot
Wayne Koestenbaum
Aaron Kunin
Anne Landsman
Victor LaValle
Jonathan Lethem
Ariel Levy
Jim Lewis
Tao Lin
Alphonso Lingis
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Gary Lutz
Fiona Maazel
Hannah Marcus
Peter Markus
Douglas A. Martin
Rich Maxwell
David McAleavey
Jeffrey McDaniel
Heather McGowan
Sam Michel
Laura Miller
Albert Mobilio
Kevin Moffett
Rick Moody
Susanna Moore
Oren Moverman
Eileen Myles
Daniel Nestor
Maud Newton
Thisbe Nissen
Alice Notley
Téa Obreht
David Ohle
One Ring Zero
Laurie Palmer
Ed Park
Francine Prose
Alissa Quart
Claudia Rankine
John Reed
Stephen Rodefer
Heather Rogers
Matthew Rohrer
Patrick Rosal
Tomaz Salamun
Joseph Salvatore
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Elissa Schappell
Christine Schutt
Vijay Seshadri
Elaine Sexton
Kamila Shamsie
Akhil Sharma
Prageeta Sharma
Lytle Shaw
Robert Sietsema
Aleksandr Skidan
Patricia Smith Alma Söderberg Juliana Spahr
Tom Spanbauer
Robert Spillman
Lorin Stein
Rene Steinke
Nathalie Stephens
Amanda Stern
Darren Strauss
Elisabeth Subrin Jolika Sudermann
Robert Sullivan
Cole Swensen
Lynne Tillman
Hannah Tinti
Monique Truong
Deb Olin Unferth
Marjorie Welish
John Edgar Wideman
Dara Wier
Sean Wilsey
Max Winter
Uljana Wolf
Matvei Yankelevich
Alexi Zentner |
AND MANY CURRENT AND FORMER FACULTY, INCLUDING
Nuar Alsadir
Jen Bervin
Brian Blanchfield
Gabriel Cohen
James Hannaham
Samantha Hunt
Shelley Jackson
Robert Lopez
Maggie Nelson
Leigh Newman
Nelly Reifler
Johnny Temple
Thad Ziolkowski
PROGRAM ALUMNI WHO HAVE APPEARED IN THE SERIES INCLUDE
Karrell Roxas
Alex Smith
A.P. Smith
FORMER DIRECTORS INCLUDE . . .
Jen Bervin
Brian Blanchfield
Christian Hawkey
Melissa Buzzeo
Elizabeth Stark
Lisa Carl
Nelly Reifler
Shelly Oria
Shelly Oria
