The Writers Forum is a lecture and discussion series run by the English Department of State University of New York at Brockport since 1967. The series has brought hundreds of writers - novelists, poets, playwrights, memoirists, screenwriters, cartoonists, and essayists from varied traditions - to the SUNY Brockport campus. Visitors have included Nobel laureates and Pulitzer winners as well as many just starting their careers. The Rose Archives manages physical and digital artifacts about this ongoing series.
For more on the series including schedule of upcoming speakers, visit the Writers Forum page on the English Department’s website.
Writers Forum Physical Collection
The physical collection at the Rose Archives is housed in Record Group (RG) 18/31 and is comprised of approximately 21 linear feet of records. The Finding Aid is available on request, which describes the artifacts in each box. The records include annual reports, fliers, catalogs, permissions, television scripts, grants program proposals, scrapbooks, photographs, and interview transcripts and correspondence, alphabetical by speaker’s last name. There is also information on Summer Workshop, Poets on Videotape, and published articles.
In addition to the records, the collection contains audio recordings (cassette and open reel) and the masters of the video library (Umatic, Beta, and VHS formats). The video is all available in the Digital Collection described above.
In addition to this special collection, the Rose Archives holds:
- Additional photos and slides of Writers Forum speakers and events (RG 29/2)
- Biographical information about former faculty directors of the Writers Forum (RG 26)
- Information about the English Department (RG 18/17)
To receive the Finding Aid or to make an appointment to access the physical collection, please email archives@brockport.edu.