New York State Writers Institute

Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us (2023)

Black Life in the North Woods: Amy Godine and Alice Green

Julia Alvarez, writer and poet

David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Novelist Elizabeth Graver

Telling the Truth 2023: The American Presidency Panel with Franklin Foer and Miles Taylor

Award-winning fiction writer and essayist Peter Orner

Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, novelist

Sarah Giragosian and David Goldsmith: The “journey” of making a book

Lyzette Wanzer: The complexities of Black identity with respect to hair

Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben

Rachel Luna: Writer, journaling workshop leader, entrepreneur

Novelist Jennifer Egan

David Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet, and Holler of the Fireflies

Lynne Tillman, author of Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Baby Boomers: The Worst Generation? With Helen Andrews and Jill Filipovic

Jessica Valenti, "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation”

Andy Greenberg, author of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

John Gray, news anchor and author

Writer and climate movement organizer Daniel Sherrell

Albany Book Festival 2022: Author Francine Prose in conversation with Robert Boyers

Fiction writer Andrea Barrett

Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

American Book Award-winning poet Carolyn Forché, moderated by Peg Boyers

Telling the Truth 2022: Politics and Disinformation with Devlin Barrett and Jonathan Lemire

Telling the Truth 2022: Truth in Media with Brian Stelter and Nandini Jammi

Creative Marriage Conversation with Setsuko and Simon Winchester, with Joe Donahue

Andrea C. Mosterman, author of "Spaces of Enslavement"

SOLID IVORY: A conversation with James Ivory and filmmaker Stephen Soucy

Schenectady Resurgent: With writer William Patrick and Proctors CEO Philip Morris

Alice Green, author of We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice

Russell Banks in conversation with William Kennedy

Temple Grandin, one of the world’s most accomplished and well known adults with autism

Ruth Reichl, chef, former NY Times food critic, and writer: A Creative Life event

Designer Debbie Millman & writer Roxane Gay: A Creative Life event

Feminist writer and scholar Melissa Febos

Jennifer De Leon, YA author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From

Skribblers Magazine & Capital District Writing Project Open Mic Reading

Paul Grondahl with John Gray: On writing and books and rescue dogs

Kevin Fitzpatrick on the wit and world of Dorothy Parker

Beth Akers, author of "Making College Pay: An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher"

Brian Phillip Whalen, Semiotic Love [Stories] in conversation with Edward Schwarzschild

NYS Writers Hall of Fame Virtual Ceremony (2020-2021 Inductees)

Elizabeth Brundage, author of The Vanishing Point

Writer Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah

So you want a career in film?: A four decade retrospective with Glen Trotiner

Evolutionary psychologist and author Hector Garcia: Politics as a Mating Strategy

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A conversation with UAlbany students

Jack Livings, author of The Blizzard Party

A conversation with writer and memoir coach Marion Roach Smith