The most interesting journey isn’t a straight line. In our fall workshop we’ve been exploring fiction and creative nonfiction using nontraditional techniques including nonlinear segments, multiple voices, found texts…
A senior writer at Rolling Stone, David Browne is the author of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup and So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead,…
HOPE EDELMAN has been writing, speaking, and leading workshops and retreats in the bereavement field for more than 25 years. She was 17 when she lost her mother to breast cancer and 40 when her father died, events…
TAYLOR JOHNSON is from Washington, DC. Their poems recently appear in The Paris Review, Academy of American Poets, and The Baffler. Their first book, Inheritance, will be published in November with Alice James Books…
ALINE BROSH MCKENNA is best known for her adaptation of the popular novel, The Devil Wears Prada. For that screenplay, McKenna garnered Writers Guild, BAFTA, and Scripter award nominations. McKenna’s other feature…
Join us for a panel discussion featuring RealArts@Penn interns, hosts, and mentors. This will be an informational session about this dynamic program and the effects it has had on students and alumni over the last ten…
Among the members of Penn’s faculty are scholars who are also practicing artists. Or, as they will argue at this exciting session: artists who understand their scholarly, critical and theoretical activity to converge…
Join us Thursday, November 5, 6:00 PM ET on YouTube for ERIC BAZILIAN: "MY LIFE AS A SONG," hosted by Anthony DeCurtis. Best known as a founding member of the Hooters and the writer of "One of Us," a Top 5 hit for…
DICK POLMAN teaches journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been the full-time Writer in Residence since 2006. For much of his journalism career, he covered national politics for The…
