Workshop with Lydia Millet

October 18, 2017 at 3:00 pm-4:30 pm –                   Writers in Camden guest Lydia Millet leads a fiction workshop. Submit up to 10 pages of fiction to writers@camden.rutgers.edu by October 1 to be considered for the workshop. Participants who wish to observe may request the writing samples in advance. 

Outside the Wire: Wartime Caretakers’ Experiences Then and Now

October 26, 2017 at 3:30 pm-5:00 pm – Outside the Wire is an annual discussion series focused on wartime narratives and featuring the perspectives of veterans, artists, and scholars.  This year’s discussion takes a look at the changing experiences of caretakers in wartime: nurses, medics, surgeons, and others. How have caretakers’ lives and work changed from the Civil War to contemporary conflicts? A […]

Workshop with Okey Ndibe

November 8, 2017 at 3:00 pm-4:30 pm –                     Writers in Camden guest Okey Ndibe leads a fiction workshop. Submit up to 10 pages of prose by October 23 to be considered for the workshop. Participants who wish to observe may also request the writing samples in advance. 

Writers in Camden: Okey Ndibe and Peter Ho Davies

November 8, 2017 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm –                       Parking information for this event:  Parking is free in the Camden County Garage. The entrance is accessible from 6th and Penn Streets. As you enter the garage, take a ticket and keep it with you during the event. After the event, visit the garage […]

Imagining Research, Researching Imagination

November 16, 2017 at 4:30 pm-6:00 pm – Novelist Janet Benton, author of Lilli de Jong, and historian Janet Golden (Rutgers-Camden) come together to explore the ways imagination and research inform the writing of both fiction and history, drawing on their mutual interest in the history of mothers and infants. Books will be for sale following the conversation.  Janet Benton’s debut novel, Lilli de Jong […]