October 6, 2022 at 12:45 pm-1:45 pm – The MFA Org’s Local and Emerging Writers Series welcomes poet Alina Pleskova, who will lead the workshop “Pens with Benefits,” exploring the multifaceted ways to render poetry about desire, intimacy and/or sex. In-person at the Writers House, first floor. Swipe your RUID at the rear door for entry.
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Cooper Street: Exercising the Mind’s Eye, A Writing and Drawing Workshop
October 8, 2022 at 10:00 am-1:00 pm – $60 General; $10 Camden residents Instructor: Carrie Simpson Why are so many writers drawn to visual art? Through generative exercises, this workshop explores how drawing can benefit one’s writing, by entering a similar openness, attention, and surrender. Participants will write and sketch alongside artwork, leaving with evocative poem and story starts. For beginners/intermediates. About the […]
Cooper Street Jump-Start Your Fiction
October 15, 2022 at 10:00 am-2:00 pm – Virtual. The workshop link will be provided upon registration. Registration opens August 29. This generative fiction workshop will help new writers get started and returning writers brush off the rust. Participants will work through exercises in developing character and plot, generating and combining story elements, and using productive constraints. Our goal is that by the […]
The Queer Life of Everyday Objects: A Translation Reading with Dr. Hostetter
November 16, 2022 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – Join the Writers House for a talk about Old English translation with Dr. Aaron Hostetter. This event takes place in-person in the Writers House, first floor. Translation theory has always hinged on a problematic reality: all translations are inherently failures. No idea or word can be rendered over with full accuracy from one language or […]
MFA Org Presents: Salon Series with Sienna Zeilinger
December 8, 2022 at 12:45 pm-1:45 pm – How can a more visual way of mapping out a poem, essay, or story introduce us to the images, relationships, and metaphors that are central to our work? MFA candidate Sienna Zeilinger will present on ways to reimagine the outline.
Writers in Camden: Amy Small-McKinney and Anthony Cappo
February 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm-8:00 pm – Anthony Cappo is the author of When You’re Deep in a Thing (Four Way Books, 2022) and My Bedside Radio. His poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH Poetry Journal, Prelude, The Rumpus, Yes Poetry, and other publications. Anthony received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He grew up in Cherry […]