October 16, 2019 at 7:00 pm-8:00 pm – Apple, Tree features 25 eloquent essayists who consider a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, exploring how it affects the lives they lead today, how it shifts their relationships, and how it changes their sense of self. Topics include perversion, the paranormal grudges, boredom, dinner, luck, and more. Together, these all-new essays form a […]
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Cooper Street Workshops: Lying With Texts – The Art of Fictional Appropriations
October 23, 2019-November 13, 2019 at 5:30 pm-8:30 pm – From the cut-up techniques of William Burroughs to the epigraphs of George Eliot to the creative plagiarisms of Kathy Acker to the extracts of Melville fiction writers have turned to other texts as part of their art. This workshop will introduce students to methods of appropriating texts from other nonfiction, poetry, and other fiction to […]
Writers in Camden: Raquel Salas Rivera
October 30, 2019 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Raquel Salas Rivera, Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and author of lo terciario/the tertiary, reads from their work. Raquel will also lead a workshop at 3 pm, open to Rutgers writing students and the public. Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country) from Birds, […]
Evicted Writing Workshops: Who Belongs Here?
November 6, 2019 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, a sobering study of eviction as both a symptom and cause of American poverty, is the Rutgers Reads selection for 2019-20. Inspired by the themes raised by the book, the Writers House will host three generative writing workshops, open to the Rutgers community and general public. These workshops, led by MFA alumni Catherine Buck […]
Exploring Fiction Writing Day for Teens
November 9, 2019 at 10:30 am-2:00 pm – Admit it: you have the plot for a fantasy series to rival Fablehaven all laid out in your head. Or you know your story idea would keep your friends up all night reading. If this sounds like you, and you’re in grades 9-12, join us for our first-ever Exploring Fiction Writing day for teens. Novelist Lauren Grodstein […]
Writers in Camden: Carmen Maria Machado and Jess Row
November 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Carmen Maria Machado, author of the memoir In The Dream House and short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, reads with Jess Row, author of White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination and the novel Your Face in Mine.