Press & Media

Press inquires should be directed to Celeste Kaufman, Senior Manager of Marketing and Community Engagement, by email at [email protected] or by phone at (212) 755-6710 ext. 17.

Click the link below to download our logo in multiple formats. Please contact Matt Kafoury, Art Director, at [email protected] for additional files and questions regarding logo use.

Click the link below to download a selection of photos of The Center’s home in Brooklyn. Please credit The Center for Fiction / Michelle Rose Photography.

The Center for Fiction is a literary nonprofit that brings diverse communities together to develop and share a passion for fiction. Founded in 1821 as the Mercantile Library of New York in Manhattan, the organization is now based in the heart of the Brooklyn cultural district, with an 18,000-square-foot facility that offers New Yorkers an immersive cultural experience centered on reading and writing. Throughout the year, The Center for Fiction provides a vast array of public programming, reading groups, and writing workshops. The First Novel Prize and Emerging Writer Fellowships help build literary careers, and KidsRead/KidsWrite programs inspire an early love of reading and writing in public school students with author-led events. In recent years, the organization’s programming has expanded to include storytelling in all its forms, integrating music, theater, dance, film, television, and the visual arts into its exploration of the best of fiction throughout history and today.