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Community members and students alike are welcome to submit to this free nonfiction writing workshop. Melissa will read and respond to 3-4 manuscripts of 10 double-spaced pages or fewer. Please send your manuscript (.doc, .docx, .pdf) to writers@camden.rutgers.edu by January 18. You are welcome to attend the workshop whether or not your work is accepted for critique. 

Melissa Fay Greene is the author, most recently, ofThe Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love. Her earlier books, including Praying for Sheetrock (1991), The Temple Bombing (1996), and There Is No Me Without You (2007) have been translated into 15 languages and have been honored with two National Book Award nominations, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, and Sheetrock was named one of the top 100 works of English-language journalism of the 20th century. Melissa is a 1975 graduate of Oberlin College, a 2013 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and a 2015-2016 Guggenheim Fellow. She and her husband live in Atlanta and are the parents of nine. 

Date & Time
January 25, 2017
3:00 pm-4:30 pm

Location
Writers House
Room 302
305 Cooper St.
Camden, NJ

Admission Information
Free

Contact
Leah Falk
856-668-4980
leah.falk@camden.rutgers.edu

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