DAVID GAMBACORTA is a writer-at-large at the Philadelphia Inquirer who focuses on longform storytelling projects that cover politics, criminal justice and everything in between. He previously worked as…
Widely described as one of the rising new voices of Mexican literature, DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS is an essayist, poet and novelist. His first novel, Among Strange Victims (Coffee House Press), was…
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program with Chloe Shakin, R.J. Bernocco, Mingo Reynolds, Dan Spinelli, and Dick Polman
Sep 18, 2017
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A roundtable discussion featuring students, staff and faculty devoted to how opportunities at Penn, from the Creative Writing Program's Journalistic Writing Minor to paid internship opportunities through the RealArts…
JENNIFER YU is a Boston resident and recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing. In her free time, she enjoys reading books she's too old for, roping unsuspecting…
HERMAN BEAVERS is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching African American Literature and Creative Writing since 1989.
Ashley Parker (C'05), Jess Goodman (C'12), and Joe Pinsker (C'13), with moderator Stephen Fried (C'79)
May 18, 2017
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Our annual Careers in Media alumni panel — sponsored by KWH, the Daily Pennsylvanian, the Creative Writing Program, and the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize — focuses on how you can prepare for first jobs and careers in…
Years of hard work in writing and reading culminates for some of our students in the Creative Writing Honors Thesis. On this night, we celebrate their lengthy, adventurous, and challenging projects in poetry, fiction…
Bob Dylan has just released Triplicate, a triple album of songs from the Great American Songbook. What does it mean when one of the greatest songwriters of the past century -- and the recent winner of the Nobel Prize…
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and hosted by Beth Kephart
Apr 4, 2017 - Apr 7, 2017
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Join us for this lunchtime discussion on FINDING AN AGENT for writers eager to begin sending their work out for publication: our panel of writers and agents will discuss the art of the query letter, identifying the…
