Fall 2026 Schedule
All events are free and open to the public. Times and locations are subject to change. Please check this page or call (585) 395-2503 for updates.
Sept. 23, 2026, 7:30 - 9 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
The Brockport Writers Forum: Mihaela Moscaliuc & Michael Waters
The poets begin the 59th year of the Brockport Writers Forum.
Mihaela Moscaliuc is a poet, translator, and scholar, author most recently of the collection Heartmoor (Alice James Books, 2026), whose poems are “informed by the poet’s coming of age during and immediately following Nicolae Ceaușescu’s repressive regime in Romania.” Waters, a Brockport alum with longstanding ties to the Writers Forum, is the author of many collections of poems, most recently Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000-2025 (BOA Editions, 2026). Together, they are co-editors of the anthology Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Knopf, 2025).
Oct. 7, 2026, 7:30 - 9 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
The Brockport Writers Forum: Kerry Cullen
The acclaimed debut novelist joins the Brockport Writers Forum.
Cullen’s debut novel, House of Beth (Simon and Schuster, 2025), concerns a young career woman in New York City, a sudden marriage, harm OCD, and a ghost. “Modern gothic meets psychological suspense in this wholly original work,” wrote Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times called it “an uncanny debut… . What’s fantastical in the novel, ultimately, is not only the ghost that shakes the bride out of her domestic bliss, but the illusion of that bliss itself.”
Oct. 28, 2026, 7:30 - 9 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
The Brockport Writers Forum: Carvin Eison
The award-winning filmmaker and SUNY Distinguished Professor joins the Brockport Writers Forum.
Carvin Eison is a filmmaker, educator, and public scholar whose deep body of work includes the award-winning documentaries July ‘64 (2004), remembering three nights of racial violence in Rochester, and Shadows of the Lynching Tree (2010), exploring the horrors of lynching in America through photography. He is General Manager of the Rochester Community Media Center, providing media education to local youth and underserved communities; he organized the “Re-energize the Legacy of Frederick Douglass Project,” which among other accomplishments led to the renaming of our airport as the “Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport”; and he is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Journalism and Social Media Department at Brockport, where he has also earned the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Endeavor.
Nov. 11, 2026, 7:30 - 9 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
The Brockport Writers Forum: Quan Barry
The acclaimed writer presents the Earl Ingersoll Reading for the Brockport Writers Forum.
Poet, novelist, and playwright, born in Saigon and raised in Boston, Barry is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The New York Times included her poetry collection Auction (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) on its list of the five best poetry collections of 2023, and O: Oprah Magazine called her novel We Ride Upon Sticks (Vintage, 2021) “Spellbinding, wickedly fun.” The New York Times called her latest, The Unveiling (Grove, 2025), “A novel that’s equal parts White Lotus and Get Out.” Presented with the generous support of the Ingersoll Family Foundation.
Dec. 2, 2026, 7:30 - 9 p.m. | Brockport Downtown (REOC)
The Brockport Writers Forum: Emily Fridlund
The award-winning novelist joins the Brockport Writers Forum.
Fridlund’s first novel, History of Wolves (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. The New York Times called it “an artful story of sexual awakening and identity formation … a novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration.” Fridlund’s debut collection of stories, Catapult (Sarabande, 2017), won the Mary McCarthy Prize.
Dec. 9, 2026, 6:30 - 9 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
The Brockport Writers Forum/English Club Open Mic
Our twice-annual celebratory end-of-semester open mic night.
It’s the last week of classes! Join the Brockport Writers Forum and the English Club for a friendly, low-stress gathering to read and hear each other’s creative work. Bring a poem, short story, or essay and read a page or two, or just listen. And bring your friends–all are welcome.