March 25, 2022 at 5:30 pm-7:30 pm – Join the Writers House, Murphy Writing of Stockton University, and the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College for an #AWP22 off-site reading in celebration of the work of university-based community writing centers. This event takes place in-person at the Writers House, 305 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ 08102. All guests are expected to comply with university […]
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Amanda Bestor-Siegal reads from The Caretakers
April 6, 2022 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – Please join us Wednesday, April 6 for a conversation with Amanda Bestor-Siegal, whose novel THE CARETAKERS will be published this month. She’ll talk about the entire process, from drafting and editing to finding an agent to shepherding the book through to publication. This is a great opportunity for people curious about how to sell their own first […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Erasure Poetry and Mixed Media Word Art
April 9, 2022 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – This workshop is currently planned as a hybrid workshop, with options to attend in-person at the Writers House as well as virtually. Depending on the nature of registrations we receive and circumstances of the pandemic, we may pivot to an all-virtual or all-in-person workshop. When registering, please indicate your preference for virtual or in-person attendance. […]
Outside the Wire: Veterans Writing Workshop
April 9, 2022 at 1:00 pm-3:00 pm – Experienced facilitators from our program partner Warrior Writers lead veterans and service members in a generative writing workshop as part of Outside the Wire, a multi-format humanities program centering veterans’ narratives. Registration is free. This program will take place virtually via Zoom. Outside the Wire is supported by a grant from the New Jersey Council […]
Writers in Camden: Shawn R. Jones and Davon Loeb
April 12, 2022 at 7:00 pm-8:00 pm – Join us as two Rutgers-Camden MFA alumni celebrate the launch of their books. Shawn R. Jones’s debut collection Date of Birth won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books. Davon Loeb’s memoir The In-Betweens is recently reissued from West Virginia University Press.
Writers in Camden: Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith
April 27, 2022 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Acclaimed poets Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith read together on the occasion of the publication of Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems and Smith’s Such Color: New And Selected Poems. PATRICK ROSAL currently serves as inaugural Codirector of the Mellon-funded Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he is a […]