Warrior Writers Poetry Reading

April 18, 2018 at 6:00 pm-8:00 pm – Come out to celebrate dynamic and powerful NJ-area veteran writers with us. This poetry reading will feature long-time Warrior Writers artists from the area as well as showcase emerging veteran writers from Rutgers. All are welcome.  If you are a veteran, regardless of Rutgers affiliation, please also join us for a writing workshop on April […]

Colson Whitehead – Craft Talk for Graduate Students

September 26, 2018 at 3:00 pm-4:00 pm – Colson Whitehead, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, the Rutgers Reads selection for 2018, will deliver a craft talk on fiction, followed by a Q & A. This event is open to graduate students in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in English programs, as well as any undergraduate enrolled in a creative writing class.  This […]

Writers in Camden and Rutgers Reads Present: Colson Whitehead

September 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm –                     Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of five other novels and two works of nonfiction. Whitehead has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and […]

What’s Your Story? A Podcast Workshop

October 6, 2018 at 9:00 am-4:30 pm – What’s Your Story?, a day long workshop on podcasting and audio narrative, returns this year on Saturday, October 6.  Please see the program page for more information about this year’s schedule, or go straight to registration.  This program will take place at the Digital Commons, 101 Cooper Street. 

Letters Home: Writing Workshop for Veterans with Warrior Writers

October 10, 2018 at 5:30 pm-7:30 pm – As part of the Letters Home project, national nonprofit Warrior Writers facilitates a series of free writing workshop for veterans in 2018-19. An experienced facilitator will guide participants through a series of generative writing prompts that engage veterans’ experiences. All veterans are invited to sign up whether or not they are affiliated with Rutgers. This […]

Outside the Lines: Complicating the Coming Out Narrative

October 11, 2018 at 12:45 pm-1:45 pm – In this workshop, graduate students and writing instructors John Mark Brown, Zach Kennedy-Lopez, and Andrea Quinn will lead LGBTQIA+ students in an exploration of the “Coming Out” narrative. We will begin with a series of questions: What does the typical coming out narrative look like? How has that narrative worked to make linear the decidedly […]