Honors Thesis Showcase
Each spring, the Creative Writing Program celebrates a small group of students who have completed substantial projects in the Honors Thesis Program. These projects serve as the capstone of their creative writing careers at Penn and span the many genres reflected in our workshop courses: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, journalism, speculative, fantasy, YA, translation, and more. Click below to learn about thesis projects from recent years.
Honors Thesis Program 2025
We celebrated this year's capstone projects with a reading and reception on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in the Kelly Writers House. So much brilliant work! Click here to check out the list of writers, abstracts of their work, and who won the thesis prize.
Honors Thesis Program 2024
Honors Thesis Program 2023
Honors Thesis Program 2022
Honors Thesis Program 2021