Past Events



FRANNY CHOI: READING AND CONVERSATION

Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Program
Feb 3, 2022 at -

co-sponsored by: the Asian American Studies Program, Excelano Project, Creative Writing Program, and the English Department

In honor of their daughter Caroline, whose longstanding…



WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

hosted by: Michelle Taransky
Feb 2, 2022 at -

Twelve years after Michelle Taransky’s Whenever We Feel Like It series hosted its first “We All Feel Like It” reading in the Kelly Writers House Arts Café, the fifth “We all Feel Like It” reading will feature poets…



WRITERS HOUSE SALON

Featuring Piyali Bhattacharya, Skye Lucas (C'21), Wes Matthews (C'23), and Hillary Reinsberg (C'11), with Al Filreis
Dec 9, 2021 at -

The Writers House Salon takes the place of our annual "Writers House New York," held each fall since 2002 in Soho at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery. This year’s special virtual salon, held in support of the outreach…



STORIES FROM THE SAFE SPACE

Dec 8, 2021 at -

An intimate reading of stories written and curated by students in Kathryn "Kitsi" Watterson's course Writing & Remembering: A Memoir Workshop.



GENERATION PANDEMIC

A presentation by Alan Jinich by Max Strickberger
Alan Jinich, Max Strickberger
Dec 7, 2021 at -

Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. During the spring of 2021, ALAN JINICH…



A READING BY THE STUDENTS OF XFIC

sponsored by the creative writing program
Dec 6, 2021 at -

Xfic is Penn's first and only experimental nonfiction journal. Students spend a semester working on one piece and building a magazine from the ground up. Our reading will feature excerpts from…



A CELEBRATION OF 1960, A NEW BOOK BY AL FILREIS

hosted by Charles Bernstein and Laynie Browne
Dec 2, 2021 at -

Join us for a celebration of the newest book by Kelly Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis, 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern.

In 1960, when World…



A CONVERSATION WITH JOURNALIST BOB SCHIEFFER

A Povich Journalism Program
Bob Schieffer
Nov 17, 2021 at -

Hosted by: Al Filreis

BOB SCHIEFFER has been a reporter all his adult life. He got his first job in journalism in 1957 at age 20, the summer of his sophomore year at Texas Christian University. The job…



A CONVERSATION WITH CLAYTON NEUMAN

A RealArts@Penn event, sponsored by Creative Ventures
Nov 11, 2021 at -

hosted by: Anthony DeCurtis

In his twelve years with AMC, CLAYTON NEUMAN has been influential in developing their social and digital content programs and building the company's award-winning gaming…



WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Alumni Authors Series: Zach Sergi and Jennifer Yu
Zach Sergi, Jennifer Yu
Nov 6, 2021 at -

Alumni writers Zachary Sergi (C’10), author of Major Detours (Running Press Kids, 2021), and Jennifer Yu, (C’16), author of Four Week, Five People (Harlequin Teen 2017) and Imagine Us Happy…