The MFA Organization will host their Local and Emerging Writers Series on April 27, hosting Bud Smith, author of the novel Teenager, named an NPR Best Book of the Year. This free event takes places on Thursday, April 27, at 12:45 p.m. on the first floor of the Writers House, located at 305 Cooper Street.
This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The Writers House will conclude its Spring 2023 Writers in Camden Series on Wednesday, April 12, with readings by alumni Davon Loeb and Shawn R. Jones. This free event runs from 7 – 8:00 PM EST and registration is required. The location is the Executive … Continue reading Canceled: Writers in Camden Welcomes Davon Loeb and Shawn R. Jones on April 12…
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) will host a writing workshop with Vanessa Mártir on Wednesday, March 15, from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m., on the Rutgers-Camden campus. This generative writing workshop, inspired by the forthcoming anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and presented by … Continue reading Join the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice on March 15 for Writing Workshop with Vanessa Martir…
Congratulations to the doctoral students who received the Chancellor’s Dissertation Completion Award: Vedangi Hambardikar (Computational Biology and Integrative Biology) Advised by Dr. Maria Solesio: Role of mitochondrial inorganic polyphosphate in maintaining mitochondrial physiology in Huntington’s Disease Anna Perry (Childhood Studies) Advised by Dr. Lauren Silver: The problem with being accommodated: disabled students’ experience navigating accommodations … Continue reading Congratulations to Student Recipients of Chancellor’s Grants!…
The MFA Organization will host their Local and Emerging Writers Series on March 7, hosting Claire Luchette, author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon. Luchette is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. This free event takes places on Tuesday, March 7, at 12:45 p.m. on the first floor of the Writers House, located … Continue reading Author Claire Luchette to Give Reading on March 7…
Dr. Aaron Hostetter, Associate Professor of English, will present “The Queer Life of Everyday Objects: A Translation Reading,” on Wednesday, November 16, at 11:20 a.m. This free event will take place at the Writers House, Room 104. Registration is requested. Translation theory has always hinged on a problematic reality: all translations are inherently failures. No … Continue reading Registration Open for “The Queer Life of Everyday Objects” Lecture with Dr. Aaron Hostetter…
Dr. Keith Green, Associate Professor of English, will deliver the National Endowed Arts (NEA) Big Read Lecture, “Can I kick it? Yes, you can: Mournful Joy in Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” on Monday, November 7. This free event, sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the … Continue reading Dr. Keith Green Delivers NEA Big Read Lecture on Nov. 7…
On Tuesday, October 18, author Ross Gay will read from his award-winning book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and is now the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) Big Read. Poet Patrick Rosal, Professor of English and co-director of the … Continue reading Join us Oct. 18 for a Conversation and Reading with Ross Gay…
This fall, the Writers House will sponsor multiple one-day Cooper Street Writing Workshops: “Exercising the Mind’s Eye: A Writing and Drawing Workshop,” taught by Carrie Simpson Saturday, October 8, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Writers House, 305 Cooper Street $60 general/$10 for Camden residents “Jump-Start Your Fiction,” taught by Stephanie Manuzak Saturday, October 15, … Continue reading Registration Open for Cooper Street Writing Workshops…
The Writers House will begin its Fall 2022 Writers in Camden Series on Wednesday, September 28 with a reading by memoirist and nonfiction writer Krys Malcolm Belc. Registration is required. This free event runs from 7 – 8:30 PM EST in the Campus Center’s Multi-Purpose Room. About the Author Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of The … Continue reading The Writers in Camden Series Kicks Off Sept. 28 with Krys Malcolm Belc…
