Cooper Street Workshop: Mapping Place in Creative Nonfiction (Virtual)

About the Workshop

In her memoir, The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom writes, “In New Orleans, we tell direction by where we are in relation to the Mississippi River, in relation to water.” In this workshop, we will explore the strategies nonfiction writers use to render the emotional and physical landscape of a place. Participants will pick a place in time and work through the complicated idea of returning. We will think of writing not unlike cartography, asking: How do you orient yourself? What are the landmarks here, personal and historical? What must you pass through—physically or imaginatively—to arrive?

$60 General, $10 Camden residents & Rutgers-Camden students

About the Instructor

Summer Wrobel is a writer and editor from Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she taught creative writing. Summer has provided editorial support to literary magazines such as Ecotone, Conjunctions, and The Boiler. A former events coordinator for Cafe con Libros, she now co-hosts The Cusp Reading Series in Crown Heights.