SUNY Adirondack professors kick off Writers Project series

QUEENSBURY, New York (Sept. 9, 2025) — SUNY Adirondack proudly presents the Fall 2025 Writers Project series, beginning at 12:40 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, with a Faculty Reading in the Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall.

“The Writers Project celebrates the power of words in all their forms, and this year’s lineup continues that tradition,” said Peter Fernbach, associate professor of English at SUNY Adirondack and newly appointed director of the Writers Project. “By bringing accomplished writers, poets, songwriters and editors to campus, we give our students and community the chance to engage directly with the creative process and to be inspired by those who live it every day.”

The Faculty Reading includes Lale Davidson, distinguished professor of English and author of “Against the Grain”; Khristeena Lute, associate professor of English and author of “Whippoorwill Sings”; and Evan Sullivan, assistant professor of History and author of “Constructing Disability after the Great War”; and others reading from their original works.

The Writers Project series continues with the following events:

• Sept. 29: Poet and writer Karen Rigby will discuss her latest book, “Fabulosa,” in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
• Oct. 13: Memoirist and novelist Richard Robison Jr. recounts his nomadic 1960s upbringing in “The Boy From Nowhere.”
• Oct. 27: Photographer MaryEllen Hendricks shares images from her “The Thin Places” project. Retired SUNY Adirondack Distinguished Professor of English Kathleen McCoy will discuss her poems inspired by the project.
• Nov. 10: Glens Falls-based playwright and musician Neal Herr will talk about the arts industry, grant funding and his musical “Drag Queen Story Hour: The Musical.”
• Nov. 24: Educator and writer Kathy Fish shares insights on “flash” fiction.
• Dec. 8: Novelist Wendy Chin-Tanner reads from her award-winning novel, “King of the Armadillos,” an imagined retelling of her father’s 1950s struggle with leprosy.

All Writers Project events are free and open to the public. The events are held at 12:40 p.m. in the Visual Arts Gallery on SUNY Adirondack’s Queensbury campus. They are also offered live via Zoom and can be viewed at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7977212478?pwd=ZXU5WlpJRXZ1YmZoNFNJak1yYVpSUT09.