Vol. 6 / Spring 2026
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Welcome to WHR Vol. 6,
featuring Poetry, Fiction,
Nonfiction, Short Films
& Screenplays
by Rutgers University
Writers House Students.
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Poetry:
Peyton Yoo / Three Poems
Arav Kodali / Snow
Yoomin Noh / Three Poems
Gayatri Patel / The Bangles She Left Behind
TIm Downes / Window
A’Miyah Stadler / Blackness
Javier Correoso Cala / Three Poems
Abhinav Aradhi / Two Poems
Ariana Guadagnino / Two Poems
Isabella Terracina / Gorilla
Sophia Reich / Seven Poems
Joseph Glynn / Two Poems
Veronica Matthews / Two Poems
Natalia Ayala / What I’ve Learned
Keya Patel / The Journey
Chloe Berwick / Two Poems
Eleanor Currey / Lions
Phillip LaBelle / Ars Poetica
Amber Thane / The Journey
Layla McLaurin / A History Student’s Regrets
Conrad Majors / Ars Poetica
Jessica Scheier / Two Poems
Patrickia Duncan / Woven
Fran Noel / Two Poems
Kaelyn Twaskas / Walk from Somerset, Plum, to Paterson St.
Kristina Di’Targiani / Cabernet
Derek Soto / Part of a Love Story
Fiction:
Paula Cobian Ramos / Return to Sender
Talha Hashmi / Chapter 1: Creatures of the Night
Alisha Rahman / Gray
Rachel Hansen / Rabbit’s Labyrinth
Veronica Matthews / A Beginner’s Guide to Scrubbing Stains (and Frogs)
Layla McLaurin / Warren Mitty
Safa Mbarki / For a Moment
Jessica Scheier / Limerence
Olivia Parker / Dextromethorphan
Saidy Bober / Night Terrors
Rachael Prokap / “Flower-Holder” (Winter Showcase Award Winner)
Demetria Glennon / “Flash Fiction: ‘Hot Dogs’ and ‘Devil Dog’”
(Winter Showcase Award Winner)
Nonfiction:
Mia Nazario / Declassified Rutgers Survival Guide
Selenne Garcia / About the Season Changing and Other’s Past
Rachel Hansen / My Roman Empire is a Ball of Fried Dough
Mariah Means-Waldorf / Who Am I?
Ella Hernandez / When I Was Seventeen
Jaimie McClane / The Woman Behind the Hoard
Kurtis Brecker / “Bury Me in The County Landfill” (Winter Showcase Award Winner)
WHR Special Feature:
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Click here to watch a series of films produced by students in Prof. John Hulme’s “Documentary Filmmaking for Writers” course!
“Documentary Filmmaking for Writers” students with John Hulme @ the 2026 Bernardsville Fencesitter Film Festival.
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Short Films & Screenplays:
Savvas Tsikentzoglou / Cobblestone Walls
Juliana Frangella /The Babysitter (Winter Showcase Award Winner)
Melly Merrida / Death Comes for All (Winter Showcase Award Winner)
Nicholas Diodato / NURNBERG (Winter Showcase Award Winner)