Register for the Annual Awards Benefit

The Annual Awards Benefit took place on Thursday, December 3rd. Click here to watch the event. If you wish to make a contribution, please donate at this link. Thank you for supporting our Public Events, KidsRead/KidsWrite programs, and Emerging Writer Fellowships!

Public Events
Our events bring together storytellers across genres for great performances, fresh and engaging conversations on craft, and an exploration of fiction’s singular power to show us who we are and who we imagine we could be. We present more than 150 authors and artists annually in live and now virtual events that showcase fiction across many art forms, integrating music, dance, theater, film, and the visual arts.

KidsRead/KidsWrite
The Center for Fiction annually serves 2,500 students from under-resourced New York City Public Schools in grades 3 through 12 with author-led reading and writing events. At this critical time, when the Center is no longer able to welcome students in its new Brooklyn home, we believe that our guiding vision for KidsRead and KidsWrite—based on literature’s capacity to show us who we are and who we imagine we could be—has heightened value. KidsRead/KidsWrite is providing virtual Storytelling Contests, Reading Groups, Writing Workshops, and Author School Visits to create interest and excitement for children and young people of all backgrounds who want to tell their own stories and have their voices heard. They hunger to read stories that evoke our shared humanity by authors representing immigrants, people of color, ethnic minorities, and those with different sexual orientations and gender identities. Fiction and narrative nonfiction create empathy and reveal what is timeless and true, but to do so there must be programs like KidsRead and KidsWrite to spotlight authors and artists who work their magic on our now virtual stage.

Emerging Writer Fellowships
The Center’s year-long Emerging Writer Fellowship program annually provides nine talented New York City-based, early-career writers with grants, an experienced editor to revise and critique their manuscripts, a place to write in our Writers Studio, public readings, and monthly dinners with eminent editors, authors, and agents who represent new writers. A diversity of talented writers who have not yet published a novel is selected each year from an ever-growing applicant pool (871 applicants in 2020). There is no fee to apply. Our Fellows have had remarkable success in publishing debut works that they developed during their fellowship year. By incubating writers in a supportive community at a critical time in their lives, the Fellowships make it possible for young writers of exceptional promise to pursue a literary career.