This study aims to find aspects of social
criticism in a collection of literary works at the Bromo
Writing Camp workshop held by the magister literary
and cultural studies program at Airlangga university.
The research problem is to find and describe the forms
of social criticism found in selected literary works at the
Bromo Writing Camp workshop. The method used in
analyzing the short story is a qualitative descriptive
method using the sociology of literature approach. From
the 20 manuscripts, we chose four manuscripts as objects
of research to be analyzed for the themes and content of
the manuscripts. The four manuscripts found different
forms of social criticism related to the fading of cultural
values as national identity, gender inequality, poverty
and social exclusion, deviations of social norms and
moral values norms, and moral values.