How does an idea become a book? How does an editor usher a manuscript into publication? Novelist Weike Wang will talk with editor Jennifer Kurdyla, taking Wang's novel Chemistry (Knopf 2017) as…
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are looks at how home DNA testing is profoundly changing how people see themselves and their families.
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is the author of three books of poetry, including most recently Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019) which was nominated for the…
Katherine Hill is the author of two novels, The Violet Hour (Scribner 2013) and A Short Move, (Ig Publishing 2020), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. With Sarah Chihaya, Merve…
A surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of life — all told with a dark pulse of…
Hoping to work in journalism, media, or publishing after college? Our annual Careers in Journalism and New Media alumni panel — sponsored by KWH, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize…
Bob Perelman is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including Iflife, Virtual Reality, The First World, Ten to One: Selected Poems, and, most recently, Jack and Jill in…
Eleven years after Whenever We Feel Like It hosted its first “We All Feel Like It” reading in the Kelly Writers House Arts Café, the third “We all Feel Like It” reading will feature poets from the KWH community.
In partnership with #VoteThatJawn and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS), we will host a virtual reading of poetry by Philadelphia Youth Poets Laureate — by youth and for youth. Join us in exploring civic…
