Writers in Camden Continues 10/18 with Novelist Lydia Millet

The Writers House will continue  its 2017-2018 Writers in Camden series on Wednesday, October 18th, with a reading by novelist Lydia Millet.   Lydia Millet is an American novelist and conservationist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as a Guggenheim fellow, … Continue reading Writers in Camden Continues 10/18 with Novelist Lydia Millet

Register Now for a Cooper Street Writing Workshop on 11/11

Dr. Shanyn Fiske, Associate Professor of English, will lead a Cooper Street Writing Workshop, “Using Typewriters to Bust Through Writers’ Block,” on Saturday, November 11th.  This workshop will teach participants about the “slow writing” movement; explore how typewriters can enhance the creative process; and learn strategies for overcoming writers’ block.   The event is from 10 … Continue reading Register Now for a Cooper Street Writing Workshop on 11/11

Registration Still Open for Podcast Workshop on 10/7

The Writers House, the Writing and Design Lab, WCCR (Rutgers–Camden Radio), the Digital Studies Center, and Push10 will present a day-long Podcast Workshop on Saturday, October 7th.  Designed as a survey of innovative audio narrative, participants will get an introduction to the technical side of podcast design, including open-source sound recording technology, basic sound technology, … Continue reading Registration Still Open for Podcast Workshop on 10/7

Fall 2017 Writers in Camden Series Kicks Off Season on 9/13

The Writers House will kick off its 2017-2018 Writers in Camden series on Wednesday, September 13 with readings by Eileen Pollack and Diane Seuss.  Eileen Pollack is the author, most recently, of the novel A Perfect Life, published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2016. Her other novels include Paradise, New York, and Breaking and Entering, which was awarded the 2012 Grub Street National Book Prize and named a New … Continue reading Fall 2017 Writers in Camden Series Kicks Off Season on 9/13

“By Ourselves” Literary Exhibit Now Open

The Writers House and the Paul Robeson Library have joined together to put on the exhibition, “By Ourselves: Rutgers Student Literary Magazines, 1923-2017.”  The exhibit, which opens on September 1st, will include work ranging from the 1920s, with the Chanticleer, a student humor magazine, to more recent publications, such as Matter, a visual art magazine, and Undiscovered, a … Continue reading “By Ourselves” Literary Exhibit Now Open

Patrick Rosal Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Patrick Rosal, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English, has received the Academy of American Poets‘ Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his book, Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016).  Established in 1994, this award “recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.”

Cooper Street Writing Workshops Begin 9/16

This September, the Writers House will sponsor two Cooper Street Writing Workshops: Rutgers–Camden alumna and associate editor of New Jersey Monthly, Shelby Vittek will be the instructor for “Writing New Jersey,” a workshop that will take place over the course of three Saturday afternoons.  In this non-fiction writing workshop, participants will read and write about the … Continue reading Cooper Street Writing Workshops Begin 9/16

“Adaptable” Closes the Season on 4/28 with a Viewing and Discussion of “Fences”

Join us on Saturday, April 28, for “Adaptable’s” final event of the spring semester. At 6 p.m., the film Fences will be shown, and will be followed by a discussion, led by Dr. Keith Green, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program.  All films will be shown at the Writers House, located at 305 Cooper Street.  All are … Continue reading “Adaptable” Closes the Season on 4/28 with a Viewing and Discussion of “Fences”

Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows

Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal, both faculty in the Department of English and the Graduate Creative Writing Program, were named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows.    Gregory Pardlo, an alumnus of Rutgers–Camden, also received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for … Continue reading Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows

“Adaptable” Continues on 4/8 with a Viewing of “Coraline”

Join us on Saturday, April 8, for the third event of the new Writers House Film Series, “Adaptable.”  At 5:30 p.m., the film Coraline will be shown, and will be followed by a Q & A with artists participating in Camden Comic-Con.   All films will be shown at the Writers House, located at 305 Cooper Street. … Continue reading “Adaptable” Continues on 4/8 with a Viewing of “Coraline”