Week of Events
Writers’ Circle
Our Writers’ Circle is a student-led, open-genre writing workshop on Monday nights. Whether you’re a poetry buff, a fiction writer, or an avid journaler, there’s a place at the table for you. We begin with prompt-based freewriting for 20-30 minutes, and then students are free to share their work, while giving and receiving constructive feedback. […]
Slam Poetry
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
IN PERSON: Meghan O’Rourke at The Writers House
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize, among her many other awards, O’Rourke writes for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and is the editor of The Yale Review. O’Rourke resides in Brooklyn, where she grew up, and Marfa, TX. She is currently a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction for her latest book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness.
No Shelf Control Book Club
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]