Past Events

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Poetry Club with Joanna Fuhrman

Information: Thursday, December 4, 2025; 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM; Murray Hall, Room 107 (first floor); Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
All are welcome. Come write with us. Give yourself the time to work on your craft.

Winter Creativity Showcase 2025 featuring Adam Dalva

Information: Wednesday, December 3, 2025; 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Event Type: Student Showcase; Event Short Description
Students are invited to submit their own poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and multimedia (podcasts and videos) from Tuesday Sept. 2 through Friday, Nov. 5 at 5 PM. Students may submit in two categories, and for poetry, you may submit up to three poems. Submissions can be made here. The

Writers from Rutgers featuring Rebecca Reynolds

Information: Monday, December 1, 2025; 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM; Rutgers Barnes and Noble, Second Floor; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
Rebecca Reynolds will be reading from her new award-winning collection of poetry. Otherly won the 42 Miles Poetry Award in 2023. Rebecca Reynolds has published two books of poetry, Daughter of the Hangnail, and The Bovine Two-Step, with New Issues Press. Her first book, Daughter of the Hangnail, received the 1998 Norma Farber First

Writers at Rutgers featuring Natalie Diaz

Information: Wednesday, November 19, 2025; 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM; 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series; Event Short Description
On Wednesday, November 19, Writers at Rutgers, cosponsored by the Zimmerli Art Museum, will host the award-winning poet, Natalie Diaz. Her visit is in conjunction with the Zimmerli's current exhibition "Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, and Always," and the reading will be held at the museum. Diaz is the author of

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

Information: Tuesday, November 18, 2025; 5:40 PM - 6:40 PM; On Zoom; Event Type: Inside The Writers House; Event Short Description
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

How We Read, Teach, and Write Contemporary Literature: A Roundtable with Rutgers English Faculty

Information: Wednesday, November 12, 2025; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description

Inside the Writers House: C.J. Leade

Information: Tuesday, November 11, 2025; 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM; On Zoom; Event Type: Inside The Writers House; Event Short Description
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

Information: 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; Event Short Description
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

Views of the Contemporary between Creative Writing and Literary Studies

Information: Thursday, November 6, 2025; 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM; Murray Hall, Room 302; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
Please join us for a conversation between novelist, critic and professor Lincoln Michel and Rutgers professor Jeffrey Lawrence about contemporary literature, publishing, and the current state of public writing in the United States. The conversation will be moderated by Lena Crown, an essayist, editor, and current Rutgers doctoral student. To

Writers from Rutgers featuring Lindsay Haber and Alex Dawson

Information: Tuesday, October 28, 2025; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Rutgers Barnes and Noble, Second Floor; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
Come hear from two of our Writers House creative writing faculty as they read from their newest works.

ASL Poetry Presentation with Peter Cook

Information: Friday, October 24, 2025; 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM; Murray Hall, Room 302; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
In honor of Disability Awareness month, we are hosting a poetry presentation and Q & A with Peter Cook led by Susan Miller. Peter Cook is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at Princeton University, and he will present the techniques of ASL poetry and answer questions about the genre of ASL

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Information: Wednesday, October 15, 2025; 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM; Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Avenue; Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series; Event Short Description
Join us on Wednesday, October 15, as we host Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, best-selling author of the short story collection Friday Black, which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2019, and, more recently, the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and on the New

Spring 2025 Creativity Showcase

Information: Wednesday, April 30, 2025; 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM; Murray Hall, Room 302; Event Type: Student Showcase

Rutgers Day 2025: Marathon Book Reading & Letterpress Event

Information: Saturday, April 26, 2025; 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 26, 2025, 10 AM to 4 PM when Rutgers Day returns on the RutgersNew Brunswick campus! Embark on a global adventure with Rutgers Global! For the latest update, visit the Rutgers Day website: rutgersday.rutgers.edu

Poetry Club with Alison Powell

Information: Thursday, April 17, 2025; 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Murray Hall, Room 107 (first floor); Event Type: Other

Writers from Rutgers featuring Benjamin Grossberg

Information: Wednesday, April 16, 2025; 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM; Rutgers Barnes and Noble, Second Floor; Event Type: Writers From Rutgers; Event Short Description
Join us for a reading and conversation with Assistant Teaching Professor Joanna Fuhrman in conversation with alumnus Benjamin Grossberg. Benjamin S. Grossbergs collections of poetry include My Husband Would (U. of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (U. of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award.

THE DEVIL AND DAISY DIRT: A Garden State Gothic, Alt-Folk Event

Information: Tuesday, April 15, 2025; 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM; Kirkpatrick Chapel on College Ave Campus; Event Type: Other; Event Short Description
The Rutgers University English Department, the American Studies Department, and Scarlet Arts RX present: THE DEVIL AND DAISY DIRT: A Garden State Gothic, Alt-Folk Event. Don't miss the event Weird NJ calls "the most original, Jersey-centric and downright weird presentation in our state's theatrical history!" As heard on WNYC! As

Conversation & Book Signing with Mina Seçkin and Adam Dalva

Information: Monday, April 14, 2025; 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM; Barnes and Noble Bookstores, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor; Event Type: Writers From Rutgers; Event Short Description
Mark your calendars for a conversation with Mina Seçkin, the author of The Four Humors, a bold, inventive debut novel that explores grief, Turkish identity, and ancient medicine. Hosted by Assistant Professor Adam Dalva, the two colleagues will discuss their editorial work on magazines and demystify aspects of the publishing industry.

Inside the Writers House: Julia Liz Elliot

Information: Friday, April 11, 2025; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; On Zoom; Event Type: Inside The Writers House; Event Short Description
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

Information: Wednesday, April 9, 2025; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM; 510 George Street, Plangere Writing Center, Murray Hall; Event Type: Inside The Writers House; Event Short Description
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

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Past Events

Poetry Club with Joanna Fuhrman

Winter Creativity Showcase 2025 featuring Adam Dalva

Writers from Rutgers featuring Rebecca Reynolds

Writers at Rutgers featuring Natalie Diaz

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

How We Read, Teach, and Write Contemporary Literature: A Roundtable with Rutgers English Faculty

Inside the Writers House: C.J. Leade

Inside the Writers House: Nightmare Edition

Views of the Contemporary between Creative Writing and Literary Studies

Writers from Rutgers featuring Lindsay Haber and Alex Dawson

ASL Poetry Presentation with Peter Cook

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Spring 2025 Creativity Showcase

Rutgers Day 2025: Marathon Book Reading & Letterpress Event

Poetry Club with Alison Powell

Writers from Rutgers featuring Benjamin Grossberg

THE DEVIL AND DAISY DIRT: A Garden State Gothic, Alt-Folk Event

Conversation & Book Signing with Mina Seçkin and Adam Dalva

Inside the Writers House: Julia Liz Elliot

Inside the Writers House: Karen Tidbeck