This is a chance for students to participate in events that typically draw writers and professionals from around the globe.
The couple have built Phenix into one of the nation's top 10 black bookstores by regularly drawing high-profile black writers.
You explain this by noting that "it is tyranny that has most often drawn writers into politics."
The festival draws writers from around the world who read from their books.
Blei's annual June writing classes drew developing writers from across the country.
While the courtroom's built-in drama has always drawn directors and writers, these new complexities add potential for storytelling.
This has drawn not only actors, but also writers, composers, artists, and other creative individuals to the area.
A similar sense of freedom from political oppression or from intolerance (such as anti-homosexual discrimination) has drawn other authors and writers to France.
New York City has always drawn writers, musicians, artists and intellectuals, and they in turn seem never to tire of talking about it.