February 17, 2021 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Graphic novelist and nonfiction writer Kristen Radtke presents a workshop and reading from her work. At 3 pm, join Kristen for a presentation about major storytelling techniques in comics: framing, perspective, pacing, and visual interruption. She’ll share examples that explore how these techniques work, and present a wide range of graphic narratives as models that […]
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Outside the Wire: Veterans and Family Members Virtual Retreat
February 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm-6:00 pm – This year’s Outside the Wire program focuses on the impact of service on veterans’ families. As part of this program, two virtual retreats invite veterans and/or military family members to participate in a menu of workshops that encourage reflection and self-care. The first retreat, on Saturday, February 20, features the following workshops. Attend the full […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Poetry as History
February 27, 2021 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – Meridel Le Sueur, the American feminist, journalist, novelist, and poet once wrote: “Don’t tell yourself that it is not up to you to write the true history. Who is to write it if not you? You live it. You write it.” As an artistic practice, poetry is a powerful form of personal expression as well […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Writing About the Immigrant Experience
March 6, 2021 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – This workshop seeks to encourage participants to share their immigrant and refugee stories, whether they are first-generation immigrants, or those whose families came here a long time ago. The hope of the class is to generate story ideas that go beyond the legalization debate that the subject of immigration is often reduced to in political […]
Who Says? Mastering Point of View in Fiction
March 11, 2021 at 2:00 pm-3:00 pm – Rutgers-Camden English faculty Lisa Zeidner presents ideas from her new book, Who Says? Mastering Point of View in Fiction.
Cooper Street Workshop: Writing the Natural World
March 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – What would a novel written by a cloud look like? What about a poem written by a snail? And how can our understanding of these questions change the way we human animals create works of creative writing? Reading works from writers like Robin Wall Kimmerer, Anna Tsing, and Robert Macfarlane, we will explore the role […]