NYS Writers Institute

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How did scientists develop the mRNA COVID vaccines??How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old? Join us for a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Thomas Cech, author of The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets?(2024). 7:30 p.m. - Conversation / Q&A University at Albany Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West Event information at https://lnkd.in/eChrCwef

“Comic books create empathy.” -- Joel Christian Gill Paul Grondahl brought author/cartoonist/illustrator Joel Christian Gill to Troy Prep Charter HS as part of a Touhey Foundation grant for NYS Writers Institute community engagement. Students received signed copies of Joel’s graphic novel “Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence.” Joel will be joined by Marcus Kwame Anderson and David F. Walker for a conversation at University at Albany later today -- 4:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 16. Event info: https://lnkd.in/ekAnFFEP Free and open to the public.

Wonderful event with an important message for us all. Thanks for attending, Assemblyman Santabarbara!

Good morning. It’s National National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month! Join us at 7 pm today — Monday Oct 7 — for a special event with John Elder Robison, neurodivergent author of four books. https://lnkd.in/eufADchC Free and open to the public. #autism #DisabilityInclusion #disabilities

It was an early morning at WRGB CBS6 with Lara Bryn and Paul Grondahl to discuss our event Monday night with John Elder Robison. Appreciate KeyBank assisting New York State Industries for the Disabled, Inc. (NYSID) and NYS Writers Institute in bringing a neuro diverse author to our area. Please join us Monday night. 7 p.m. Monday, October 7 Conversation followed by a Q&A? Page Hall - University at Albany Downtown Campus 135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203 Free and open to the public. Free off-street parking.?

Billy Collins was the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001 during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He wrote the poem "The Names" in dedication to the victims and their survivors. Collins initially refused to read "The Names" in public, though he has read it two times in public since 2002. https://lnkd.in/e3UTWBHe PS: We're honored to welcome Billy Collins as our guest for a conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25. See our website for more event details. #neverforget #911day #poetry

Join us Thursday, Sept. 12, for a conversation with University at Albany alum Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing and the current editorial director at the Meteor.? Free and open to the public. Samhita Mukhopadhyay 4:30 p.m. Thursday, September 12, 2024 Conversation/Q&A Campus Center West Boardroom University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222?

Join us Thursday, Sept. 12, for a conversation with University at Albany alum Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing and the current editorial director at the Meteor.? Free and open to the public. Samhita Mukhopadhyay 4:30 p.m. Thursday, September 12, 2024 Conversation/Q&A Campus Center West Boardroom University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222?

NYS Writers Institute announces publication of the seventh edition of the Trolley literary journal... ?“In the summer before eleventh grade, I make the fateful decision to get a job as a camper-waiter in Connecticut…”? ?- Mark Berger ? “We were a cabin of oddballs, both at camp and in the eleven months a year we wished we were at camp..." ?- Elizabeth Bayou-Grace ? "I was drawn in by an Irish drifter, who was chasing enlightenment through veganism...." ?- Annika Nerf ? “But camp for me is about something else, memories that would not come from a camp for able kids: the sound of a wheelchair rolling across pavement…”? ?- Gabriel Donovan ? "Around Easter, three years ago, a Facebook message crossed time and space straight from my 1950’s childhood..." - Susan Megna ? ?“By the third morning, my crush on the boy with the squinty blue eyes was in full bloom…”? ?- Pernille AEgidius Dake As August draws to a close, another season of summer camps has forged fresh memories — new friendships kindled, woodland adventures embarked upon, the cool embrace of a lake in the Adirondacks, perhaps even a first kiss beneath a starry sky. ? We can only hope today's campers are preserving these moments, penning them into their journals to revisit in the years to come. ? Back in the spring we invited readers to share their summer camp stories. From those submissions a group of 16 writers were selected to read their stories in front of a sold-out audience at?The Linda - WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio in Albany - on June 30. It was a first for us: a collaboration with the NYC-based Writers Read non-profit literary forum that produces curated events and podcasts celebrating the spoken word.? ? We present 15 of those essays with video from the June 30 event along with 15 additional summer camp stories in our new edition of the Trolley journal. Read?the Trolley journal?at https://lnkd.in/eTpxmVhG University at Albany / Paul Grondahl / Michael Huber