The Brooklyn Writers Foundry is an intimate, low-residency MFA program that specializes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Now accepting applications.
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Our own Prof. David Gates: A Political Satire Flounders in a Time of Satire-Proof Politics nytimes.com/2026/06/09/books… via @NYTimes
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BLUEGRASS: Songs & Stories from BLOODLINE with Musician and Award-Winning Author LEE CLAY JOHNSON — The Church Sag Harbor @PanamericaBooks @countyhwy @stjoesny thechurchsagharbor.org/event…
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Big news! Low-Res Faculty Elisa Gabbert @egabbert wins Guggenheim Fellowship award. Elisa will be teaching the nonfiction workshop this June residency. Hurray! gf.org/stories/announcing-th…
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Always such a pleasure to hear President Boomgaarden perform. This promises to be a special one.
#SJNY President Donald R. Boomgaarden, Ph.D. performs works by Ludwig van Beethoven and his own compositions, alongside featuring soloist & #SJNY assistant teaching professor Veronica Kaninska, M.S.Ed., C.T.R.S. at this month's annual Presidential Recitals ow.ly/lmnR50YH5Pu
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Francine Prose on two novels that give blue state readers a face full of their red state neighbors go.nybooks.com/4sMW8Ud
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Francine Prose done hit this one out the park. @PanamericaBooks #LeeClayJohnson #Faulkner
Blood in the Game nybooks.com/articles/2026/04… via @nybooks
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MFA student Sarah Bess Jaffe interviews faculty Andrew Martin @ElectricLit
During the Worst of Times, Behave Badly electricliterature.com/durin…
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Our patron saint Flannery
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"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place...In yourself right now is all the place you've got."
-From 'Wise Blood,' by Flannery O'Connor, born today in 1925.
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This brilliant essay by Foundry faculty @egabbert began here as a Master Lecture on John Berger…
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"The essay allows us to enter the same state we enter in ritual, one where time feels layered, present over past, like a ladder we can climb up and down..."
Time & the Essay by @egabbert, up now
clunyjournal.com/p/time-and-…
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More evidence of the crisis that is mainstream publishing. Don't bet on a lame horse, join us instead.
Mar 19
Welp. I've been expecting a scandal like this sooner rather than later
nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books…
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Going to be a brilliant evening of literary conversation @stjoesny w/ @ANNELAMOTT!
#Brooklyn Voices returns to #SJNY March 26 at 7:30 p.m. when @NealFAllen and @ANNELAMOTT present Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences. RSVP required and tickets available at the link. ow.ly/eQLX50Ys3Hj @greenlightbklyn
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Real-time image of Panamerica staff at work today:
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"It might be good to have Shelly come over on Sunday. Somebody to talk to. Maybe it’ll be cool enough to burn some cedar. That’s how she’d like to tell her stories. Over flaming purple heartwood."
--Lee Clay Johnson's dark and mesmerizing BLOODLINE is out April 21st. Get your copy here: countyhighway.com/panamerica…
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Martin Mull "could do everything: paint, write, act, draw, and play guitar, all wonderfully well. I miss him. But I'm grateful to have these stories to remind me what a clever bastard he was."
-Eric Idle, from the forward of the late Martin Mull's LIFE SENTENCES, out this April Fools Day. Link to pre-order, below.
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Bloodline has been spotted at the Winter Institute galley room, where it is both a galley room and rep pick with @ConsortiumBooks . If you're at WI, come pick up an advance copy of Lee Clay Johnson's dark and brilliant new novel, out April 21st.
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An award-winning novelist who grew up in Tennessee in a family of bluegrass musicians, has been instrumental in growing #SJNY’s @writersfoundry.
Read SJNY’S Storyteller: Lee Clay Johnson in the latest edition of the #SJNY magazine ow.ly/GfE550YflQo
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A good reason to give yourself to literature…
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Something big is happening
STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone.
I hate to break it to you, but we’re dealing with a
Total.
Technological.
Bloodbath.
The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities.
Words. Books. Art. Music.
The only lifeline we have left.
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You cannot understand how a piece of writing works—structurally, spatially, temporally, linguistically—by reading on your phone (or on a laptop). You can’t see patterns, how one sentence or section relates to another. It’s a disaster for students to learn this way.
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