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Rutgers Camden MFA in Creative Writing

The Rutgers Camden MFA in Creative Writing is a multidisciplinary degree program. Students concentra

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08/25/2026

We’re so excited for the first event in our Writers in Camden series on September 17 with the poet Stacey Waite! 6pm, Campus Center MPR, free and open to the public. We’ll have books for sale and refreshments provided. Registration is encouraged at the link in our bio.

08/24/2026

The High School Writers Conference is around the corner! If you’re a NJ 9th-12th grader and you love to write, please join us at our annual FREE High School Writers Conference! Turn in your permission slip early to save your spot. Details & registration information at go.rutgers.edu/hswc26

08/20/2026

Announcing our 2026-2027 Writers in Camden lineup! This year we’ll be celebrating recent work by Stacey Waite, Adam O’Fallon Price, Katie Bennett, Caroline Rash, Marie Scarles, Essie Chambers, and Jordy Rosenberg. As always, every reading is free. Can’t wait to see you there.

08/18/2026

Save the date for our first MFA student reading of the year! Come for the prose, stay for the pierogis. See you soon 🍸😎🎤

07/09/2026

🗂️ MINING THE PERSONAL ARCHIVES with Leah Pellegrini: In order to write memoir and other forms of creative nonfiction, we’re often tasked with revisiting the past, so we can reflect our personal and collective histories in truthful ways on the page. What to do, then, when memory is spotty? This workshop will offer specific techniques for recovering the details of our prior lives—both the practical, tactical specificities, and the emotional, thematic ones—so we can express them in our writing, with attention to nuance, accuracy, and care. This class will also offer creative modes for contextualizing these memories through present-day perspectives.

07/01/2026

Join the Writers House for a weekend retreat in Cape May, NJ where you can relax, participate in generative workshops, and explore your ideas in an unhurried, supportive setting. The retreat offers guidance and insight from featured guests Lauren Grodstein, Tom McAllister, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, and Laurie Frankel. Your registration price includes your room at the Inn of Cape May, instructional workshops, Saturday dinner, and breakfast and lunch Sunday. Spaces are filling up fast, and we’d love to see you there!

06/11/2026

💼 WRITING WORK with Bronwen Everill: The daily grind of work emails, long commutes, and at-times frustrating colleagues might be exactly what you hope to escape when you open your computer to start writing. Yet readers love to read about work! Those same details that can make it such a slog are, strangely, the thing that can give your fiction texture, grounding, and stakes. In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to translate your own job into prose, how to write about jobs you’ve never had, and look at great examples of work on the page.
July 8, 6-7pm. $20 general / $5 for RUC students & Camden residents.

06/01/2026

The Writers House is a beautiful space full of nooks and crannies, desks, and comfy chairs... and fellow writers, of course! Bring a project you’re working on and write in community in our historic space this summer. Free, with registration encouraged.

05/06/2026

🤣 WRITING HUMOR IN CREATIVE NONFICTION with : Invariably, writing creative nonfiction requires dredging up former lovers and pi***ng off your mother. But a bit of self-deprecating humor can do wonders for your sanity and your writing. In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss the role of humor in personal essays and memoir, and how to write serious work that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Participants will read work by Elif Batuman, Brooke Champagne, and Sloane Crosley, and engage with writing prompts designed to help infuse their own life stories with some comic relief.
June 10, 12-1pm. $20 general / $5 for RUC students & Camden residents.

04/24/2026

When you give to the Rutgers–Camden Writers House, you’re supporting youth in Camden as they explore their creativity and begin to identify as writers in our Growing Great Writers after-school program. This year, we have a goal of reaching $720, which would cover one semester’s worth of snacks, supplies, and personalized literary magazines for students in Growing Great Writers. We’re so grateful for your support! Find the link to support us in our bio.

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Camden, NJ
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