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News/Volume 97/Volume 97 Issue 8

Writers@Drew holds Queer Literature Panel, Hosts Book Readings and Q&A with Authors

February 28, 2025February 27, 2025

Campus organization Writers@Drew held a panel on queer literature this past Wednesday, Feb. 19 in Mead Hall’s Founders Room. The event was cosponsored by the Casement Fund, the English department and the…

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News/Volume 97/Volume 97 Issue 5/Writers@Drew

Professor Kannan Mahadevan Hosts Immersive Writing Workshop

November 22, 2024November 22, 2024

The last Writers@Drew event for the semester was hosted by one of Drew’s very own professors Wednesday, Nov. 13. Kannan Mahadevan, an English professor best known for his Short Fiction workshop class,…

Volume 97 Issue 2/Writers@Drew

Natera and Shaughnessy Share Writing Insights during Writers at Drew

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

Students filled the Founders room in Mead Hall for the first Writers@Drew event of the semester to hear readings and writerly insights from authors Cleyvis Natera and Brenda Shaughnessy on Sept. 25. …

Volume 97 Issue 2/Writers@Drew

After Writers@Drew: Interview with Brenda Shaughnessy

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

On “Tanya,” Writing about Art and Full-Length Poetry Collections After the panel for Writers@Drew on Sept. 25 in Mead Hall, Brenda Shaughnessy sat for an interview about her poetry and her writing…

Volume 96 Issue 9

Tiphanie Yanique Provides Insights for Student Writers

February 16, 2024August 7, 2024

In a collaborative event between Africana Studies and the English Department, Drew hosted fiction writer, poet and essayist Tiphanie Yanique at the first Writer’s at Drew event of the year. This past…

Volume 95 Issue 2

Writers@Drew Invites Cara Blue Adams

October 21, 2022August 7, 2024

On Oct. 18, 2022, multi-award winning author Cara Blue Adams joined the Drew English Department to present her new book, “You Never Get It Back,” at the first in-person Writers@Drew event since…

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Student Life & Arts/Writers@Drew

Prepare and Be Persistent Says Poet Javier Zamora

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

On Oct. 4, several hundred Drew students and faculty alike gathered on Zoom to hear poet and activist Javier Zamora’s readings of his poetry and his journey into becoming the successful poet…

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Student Life & Arts

Zoffness Curates Observation Into Art

March 20, 2021March 22, 2021

“Even really personal writing …  is a curated thing that one is sort of handpicking what to include and what to exclude. There is no neutrality in it,” said Zoffness ...…

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Student Life & Arts

Emma Cline Covers Questions, Answers and “White Noise”

March 5, 2021

Writers@Drew is a series of virtual events featuring various award-winning authors in courtesy of The Casement Fund and the English Department. On Feb. 24, guest author Emma Cline, who is best known…

Student Life & Arts/Writers@Drew

Writers@Drew: Junot Díaz Talks Identity, Decolonization, and Dominicanidad

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018

by Caitlin Shannon, Student Life & Arts Editor Monday night Dominican-American author Junot Díaz, a New York Times best seller and National Book Award finalist, came and spoke at Drew as part…

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