April 26, 2025 at 1:00 pm-4:00 pm – ABOUT THE WORKSHOP This workshop is an opportunity for writers of other disciplines to experience writing for theater. Students will practice skills for writing engaging dialogue and discovering distinctive character voices, and experiment with writing theatrical gestures and stage directions to create theatrical moments when words fail. We’ll also discuss examples of contemporary playwriting on […]
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The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association’s Midnight Notes at Rutgers University-Camden Writers House
April 29, 2025 at 7:00 pm-9:00 pm – As part of the Year of the Arts at Rutgers-Camden, the Writers House is teaming up with the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association to host several of NVHA’s beloved Midnight Notes workshops on Rutgers-Camden’s campus! Write with local poets in a low-pressure environment on April 29 from 7-9pm at the Rutgers-Camden Writers House. Our host is […]
MFA Graduate Reading
May 17, 2025 at 5:00 pm-7:00 pm – Come celebrate our graduating MFA students at a reading of their work! Free and open to the public. Saturday, May 17, 5-7 pm (doors 4:30) Penn 401 300 4th St., Camden, NJ
Cooper Street Workshop: How to Make Characters Feel Real
May 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – ABOUT THE WORKSHOP What really makes a character jump off the page? We all know the magic of strong motivations, a well-rendered belief system, and a palpable history, but all these things leave something very important out: idiosyncrasy! Does your character pronounce the “T” in “tarot”? Do they always wear a frog-shaped barrette in their […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Writing Absurdist Fiction
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – ABOUT THE WORKSHOP From something as unlikely as aliens visiting Earth just to pet your dog, to something as strangely real as Philadelphia’s “Chicken Man,” people are drawn to stories that make us say, “…wait, what?” When executed with mastery, these stories can break what we assume about our own reality or reveal hard truths […]
Cooper Street Workshop: Writing the Past
June 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – ABOUT THE WORKSHOP If you’re writing or thinking about writing a story set in the past – maybe looking at an under-appreciated figure at an important historical moment, or maybe writing about a grandparent’s story, or maybe you just want to explore the exciting possibilities of historical romance or adventure – you probably have some […]