SUMMER WRITING FESTIVAL

Creative Writing Workshop, July 7-24
Festival Events, Saturday July 26 11AM - 7PM

SUMMER 2025: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP!

Registration for the Creative Writing Workshop is now open! July 7 - 24, classes take place every Monday & Thursday 2-5PM

View the 2025 LIU Brooklyn Summer Writing Festival Events schedule, free for all to attend!

Zoraida Córdova
Author, Visiting Professor

Zoraida has written more than two dozen novels and short stories, including The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence. Her 2016 novel Labyrinth Lost, book one in the Brooklyn Brujas trilogy, won an International Latino Book Award. Zoraida was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and calls New York City home. When she’s not working, she’s roaming the world in search of magical stories.

Zachary Sergi
Author, Program Director

Zachary is the author of several print novels (including Love And Video Games and Major Detours) and nearly a dozen interactive novels (including the Heroes Rise and Versus series), specializing in Contemporary Urban Fantasy & Speculative Fiction. Zachary was raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side and studied Creative Writing at Regis High School and the University of Pennsylvania.

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