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Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft focused, but strive for an earthy spontaneity unencumbered by prepared queries and index card cues. Visits are conversational and plastic, largely molded by (and dependent on) audience questions. In addition to the conversation, most visits include short readings, writing prompts, show-and-tell sessions, and house/apt tours. Chances are you'll meet their pets (and look inside their refrigerators).

In the last eight years, students have visited with almost 200 authors in dozens of different cities. Internationally, they've talked with Eoin Colfer in Dublin, Mariana Enriquez in Buenos Aires, Yewande Omotoso in Johannesburg, Garth Greenwell in Sofia, Karin Tidbeck in Stockholm, Kevin Barry in Sligo, and Daisy Johnson in Oxford. Stateside, they've talked with Maurice Ruffin in New Orleans, Karen Russell in Portland, Chigozie Obioma in Lincoln, Tommy Orange in Oakland, Susan Orlean in Los Angeles, Tom Perrotta in Belmont, Jeff VanderMeer in Tallahassee, and Eowyn Ivey in Palmer, Alaska (as well as more local, across-the-river luminaries like Jennifer Egan, Victor LaValle, Lev Grossman, and André Aciman).

Inside the Writers House with Kevin Smith

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Thursday, April 30, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
KEVIN SMITH (Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Tusk)  is an American independent filmmaker who pioneered low-budget, dialogue-driven indie cinema with his 1994 debut, Clerks. He is the creator of the iconic comedy duo, Jay and Silent Bob (portrayed by Jason Mewes and Smith), frequently cited alongside such classics as Cheech & Chong, Martin & Lewis, Laurel & Hardy,

Inside the Writers House with Robert Kaplow

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

  Award-winning novelist/screenwriter ROBERT KAPLOW was nominated for an Oscar this year for his "crackling script" (Wall Street Journal) for Richard Linklater's Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke (also nominated), Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott. "The best movie about Broadway since All That Jazz." (Wall Street Journal). The film adaptation of Robert's critically acclaimed novel, Me & Orson Welles,

Inside the Writers House with Chris Condon

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
On Zoom  
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

  Join Writers House instructor Alex Dawson for an afternoon with comic writer Chris Condon, author of That Texas Blood, The Enfield Gang Massacre. Chris is the creator of the highly-praised, ongoing Image Comics series That Texas Blood, "a dark and twisted Texas mystery with tons of heart" (Scott Snyder, Batman), often compared to No Country For Old

Inside the Writers House with Lev Grossman

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Don't miss this chance to meet number one bestselling fantasy author Lev Grossman (The Magicians, The Bright Sword) at 7:30 PM on Tues. April 28.   A leading voice in modern speculative fiction, LEV GROSSMAN is a #1 New York Times bestselling American novelist best known for his "explosive!" (Entertainment Weekly) and "deeply human" (New

Inside the Writers House with Joyce Carol Oates

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Monday, April 27, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
On Zoom  
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Over the last ten years of Inside the Writers House, Rutgers students have visited almost 300 authors in cities all over the world, from Dublin to Paris to Buenos Aires to Johannesburg. But this week is all about Jersey (with one foray to Sydney), starting with the Queen of Northern

Inside the Writers House: Cullen Bunn & P.  Djeli Clark

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
On Zoom  
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Please join us at 5:40 PM on TUES. NOV 18 for the next session of Inside the Writers House: Nightmare Edition, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with CULLEN BUNN (Harrow County) and P. Djèlí CLARK (Ring Shout). CULLEN BUNN is The New York Times Bestselling writer of creator-owned

Inside the Writers House:  C.J. Leade

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On Zoom  
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Please join us at 7:30 PM on TUES. NOV 11 for the next session of Inside the Writers House: Nightmare Edition, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with CJ LEEDE (Maeve Fly, American Rapture). CJ LEEDE's debut novel Maeve Fly won the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, earned a Bram Stoker

Inside the Writers House: Nightmare Edition

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Monday, November 10, 2025
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Second Floor, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
RU SCARED? You should be! INSIDE THE WRITER HOUSE: NIGHTMARE EDITION! LIVE ON STAGE @ RUTGERS B&N. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Mon. Nov 10. Because horror love doesn't stop with Halloween. Join us at 11 AM on Mon. Nov 10 for a special live, in-person presentation of Inside the Writers House, when

Inside the Writers House: Julia Liz Elliot

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Friday, April 11, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Alex Dawson talks with JULIA LIZ ELLIOT. From the acclaimed author of The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice,  and The New and Improved Romie Futch, comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.  A TiIME Best Book

Inside the Writers House: Karen Tidbeck

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
510 George Street, Plangere Writing Center, Murray Hall
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Karin Tidbeck is originally from Stockholm, Sweden. She lives and works in Malmö as a freelance writer, ranslator and creative writing teacher, and writes fiction in Swedish and English. She debuted in 2010 with the Swedish short story collection Vem är Arvid Pekon? Her English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath, was awarded the

Inside the Writers House: Steve Shell and Cam Collins

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Alex Dawson talks with STEVE SHELL and CAM COLLINS, the creators of OLD GODS OF APPALACHIA, an award-winning eldritch horror anthology podcast and the first podcast to be nominated for a World Fantasy Award. A  roleplaying game based on the series, to be produced by legendary game developer Monte Cook Games, met its funding

Inside the Writers House: Joe Hill  

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Friday, March 7, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Join us on Fri. March 7 @ 10:30 AM (EST) for this semester's kickoff of RU's Inside the Writers House with author Joe Hill. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award/Eisner Award/Locus Award/British Fantasy Award winning author of The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and Strange Weather.

Inside the Writers House: Keith Rosson

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

This final fall semester Inside the Writers House event features none other than Keith Rosson, the author of the novels The Devil by Name, Fever House, Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide as well as the Shirley Jackson Award–winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. His

Inside the Writers House: Rachel Harrison

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Now is your chance to hear from novelist, Rachel Harrison,  the USA Today Bestselling author of So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return. The Return was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric

Inside the Writers House: Brian & Wendy Froud

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Friday, November 22, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

We are pleased to host the dynamic duo of Brian and Wendy Froud, artists and creators for The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and The Empire Strikes Back.  To discuss the art of Brian and Wendy Froud we must first cross into the Faerie Realm, so let’s begin with Brian’s advice on

Inside the Writers House: Ronald Malfi

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Friday, November 22, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Ronald Malfi (Small Town Horror, Come with Me) is an award-winning author of several horror novels, mysteries, and thrillers. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, and he is a Bram

Inside the Writers House: Terri Windling

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Friday, November 22, 2024
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Please help us welcome, Terri Windling, a writer, editor, and artist specializing in fantasy literature and mythic arts. She has published over forty books, winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and placing on the short list for the Tiptree Award. She received the S.F.W.A.

Inside the Writers House: Adrien Beau

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Friday, November 15, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
On Zoom
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We are thrilled to welcome French filmmaker Adrien Beau, best known for The Vourdalak (2023), Les condiments irréguliers (2011) and La petite sirène (2011).  Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98231287839?pwd=WmhlblJSWnlva0lWNVZGL3dwZDlqUT09 (PASS CODE: IWH) "Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working

Inside the Writers House: Brian Evenson

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Monday, November 11, 2024
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Give a warm welcome to Brian Evenson,  author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of

Inside the Writers House: TBD

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Friday, October 18, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
On Zoom
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"Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft