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The Writing Arts Club board members outside of Robinson Hall Room 202. - Copy Editor / Claire McDermott

The Writing Arts Club inspires students to embrace their inner writer

Claire McDermott, Copy Editor September 18, 2024

On Thursday, Sept. 12, Rowan’s Writing Arts Club held its first weekly meeting of the year in Robinson Hall. Students eagerly gathered in the classroom and tapped into their creativity with the vast...

"Adjei-Brenyah made the reading entertaining as he even had audience participation while reading excerpts from two chapters of the novel." - Staff Writer / Ryan Schaller.

Rowan welcomes NYT best-selling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah to speak about his debut novel

Ryan Schaller March 18, 2024

On Feb. 29, Rowan University’s Writing Arts Department welcomed New York Times best-selling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah who read excerpts from his debut novel "Chain-Gang All-Stars." He also had...

Robinson is passionate about using words to fight prejudice and promote mental well-being. - Photo via Asiya Robinson.

Crafting change through words: Asiya Robinson’s writing, advocacy, and future aspirations

Leah Thorpe January 24, 2024

Life doesn’t always go as planned. For many people, their journeys lead them down unexpected, but exciting and rewarding paths. Asiya Robinson, a senior writing arts major at Rowan with a double minor...

"Poems in the collection will all focus on being queer while living in suburbia and the specific struggles that come along with being LGBT in that particular environment." - Photo via Rowan Glassworks' Instagram.

Sean Wolff’s journey through creative expression

Abigail Twiford November 29, 2023

The Rowan campus is home to a vast array of creative majors. Students with skills and talents of all kinds are able to express themselves and get degrees in the artistic fields they are passionate about.  Sean...

King’s process of writing her poetry is very free-flowing. It consists of her writing all the time and when she thinks of something, she writes it down either in her notes or on a piece of paper. -Photo via @poetic_justice_rowan

In the verse of inspiration: Mia-Sara King’s journey into spoken word poetry

Dylan Francis November 15, 2023

Mia-Sara King is a junior at Rowan University. She is a writing arts major and the senator for Poetic Justice, a poetry club at Rowan University. King has been interested in writing since she was a child....

"Currently, she is working on a novel for their Master's program, titled "Icarus’s Son," a contemporary retelling of the Greek myth." - courtesy of Glassworks website.

Chloe Mortier: From undecided freshman to master’s candidate in writing arts

Paige Britt November 8, 2023

Chloe Mortier is a current graduate student at Rowan, working towards getting her master's in Writing Arts. Mortier is a media editor for Glassworks, Rowan’s graduate-level literary magazine. She is...

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