August 7, 2024 at 6:45 pm-7:15 pm – Join us for dinner at the Writers House between Cooper Street Workshops on August 7! If it’s nice out, bring a picnic blanket or a camping chair, and we’ll eat outside. August 7, 6:45-7:15, in-person at the Writers House. Free for Camden residents and Rutgers-Camden students; $10 for general. Registration required: register here.
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Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Writing Environmental Justice (Virtual)
August 7, 2024 at 7:30 pm-8:30 pm – INSTRUCTOR: Knar Gavin ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: Writing Environmental Justice is a place-based workshop for writing about environmental challenges of the present. Our compositions will be supported by documentary materials (including imagery drawn from the Philadelphia area), and we will endeavor, together, to foster a shared sense of how best to live, learn, and write on […]
In Conversation Series: Dilruba Ahmed
September 23, 2024 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – With support from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA) Innovation Grant, and in conversation with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Writers House welcomes writer Dilruba Ahmed for a reading and Q&A. Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, […]
Writers in Camden: Emma Copley Eisenberg & Annie Liontas
September 26, 2024 at 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Acclaimed authors Emma Copley Eisenberg and Annie Liontas will read from their work. Emma Copley Eisenberg is a queer writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, was named a […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Writing About Your Immigrant Experience (ZOOM)
September 28, 2024 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – ABOUT THE WORKSHOP This workshop seeks to encourage and empower participants to share their immigrant and refugee stories, whether they are first-generation immigrants, or those whose families came here a long time ago. We will discuss some tropes and myths related to writing about the immigrant experience, and read short passages by contemporary authors, including […]
Outside the Wire: Writing Grief – Virtual Workshop
October 5, 2024 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – ABOUT THE FACILITATORS Warriors Writers is a veterans focused arts nonprofit that fosters artistic exploration and expression through casual, welcoming writing workshops, designed for people of all writing and art experience and exposure. By reflecting and creating in a comfortable space, we encourage and support healing and community building. ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP Facilitated by experienced […]