Join us in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Writers House!
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September 18, 2025: Writers in Camden – Lauren Grodstein & Tom McAllister – 7:00pm, Campus Center Multipurpose Room
October 23, 2025: Writers in Camden – Deena ElGenaidi, Micaiah Johnson, & Brook McClurg – 7:00pm, Campus Center Multipurpose Room
February 25, 2026: Writers in Camden – Liz Moore – 7:00pm, Gordon Theater
All events above are free and open to the public
Tiered supporters may also attend:
September 18: Cocktail reception prior to Writers in Camden. Mix and mingle with MFA professors Lauren Grodstein, Tom McAllister, and other guests.
October 23: Cocktail reception prior to Writers in Camden. Mix and mingle with MFA alumni Deena ElGenaidi, Micaiah Johnson, Brook McClurg, and other guests.
February 25: Cocktail reception prior to Writers in Camden. Mix and mingle with Liz Moore and other guests.
April 16: Authors Dinner. Enjoy an intimate catered dinner inside the historic Writers House with MFA program faculty and esteemed local authors.
Lauren Grodstein is the author of six novels, including A Dog in Georgia, the Read with Jenna selection We Must Not Think of Ourselves, New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family and the Washington Post Book of the Year The Explanation for Everything. Lauren’s work has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Hebrew, and other languages, and her essays and reviews have been widely published. She teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in New Jersey with her husband and children.
Tom McAllister is the author of 4 books, most recently the essay collection It All Felt Impossible, and the novel How To Be Safe, which was named one of the best books of 2018 by The Washington Post. His shorter work has been published widely, in publications including The New York Times, Epoch, The Sun, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Cincinnati Review, and many more. He is the nonfiction editor at the Barrelhouse and co-host of the Book Fight podcast. He lives in New Jersey and teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden.
Deena ElGenaidi is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Her debut novel, Dust Settles North, was released in September 2025 with Bindery. Her writing has been featured in Vulture, Insider, Nylon, Salon, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. Deena holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and her MA in English from Villanova University.
Micaiah Johnson is a Brooklyn-based author and scholar. She received her BA in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her MFA in fiction from Rutgers-Camden. She received her doctorate at Vanderbilt university. On her mother’s side, she is a first-generation traditional high school graduate. Her debut novel The Space Between Worlds won the Compton Crook Award and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. NPR named it one of best books of 2020 and one of the best science fiction books of the last decade. Her follow-up novel, Those Beyond the Wall, an eerily timely looked at violence during apartheid, was released March 12th, 2024. In her academic work she is concerned with questions at the intersection of race and technology, particularly as revealed in 19th Century America, a time punctuated by spectacular shifts in both. She also works in the necropolitical implications of preservation, both in centuries past and in our present moment of the Sixth Great Extinction.
Brook McClurg is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literature Department at San José State University and editor-in-chief for Reed Magazine, California’s oldest literary journal. A Fulbright research fellow, his nonfiction, fiction, poetry and translation work have appeared in many literary journals. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize, and his work “Geometry of Absence” was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. His first book, A Dictionary of Modern Consternation, won the Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction and was published in 2024 by The University of Alaska Press.
Liz Moore is the author of The God of the Woods, Long Bright River, The Unseen World, Heft, and The Words of Every Song. The God of the Woods debuted as the #1 bestseller among independent bookstores across the United States, was selected by Barack Obama for inclusion on his Summer Reading List, was chosen by Barnes & Noble as their national book club choice for July 2024, was selected by viewers of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as their choice for the Summer 2024 Fallon Book Club, for which Liz Moore made an appearance on the show, and has been sold for translation in twenty-eight foreign territories to date. Long Bright River was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Book of the Month Club pick, and the January selection for the Good Morning America book club. In addition, it launched the New York Times’s Group Text monthly feature. Barack Obama also selected Long Bright River as one of his favorite books of 2020. A limited-series adaptation of Long Bright River—co-created, executive produced, and co-written by Moore, and starring Amanda Seyfried—will premiere on Peacock in 2025. Both The Unseen World and The God of the Woods have been optioned by Sony Pictures Television, with Moore in a writing/producing capacity. Moore’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as Tin House, The New York Times, and Narrative Magazine. She is the winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, Philadelphia’s Athenaeum Literary Award, and a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature. Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia and is Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.
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