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24/09/2026

Applications are open for the Spring 2027 Bassini Writing Apprenticeships, directed by Sebastian Castillo and Stephanie Feldman! Learn more at: https://creative.writing.upenn.edu/honors-awards/bassini-apprenticeships

16/09/2026

Join Artist-in-Residence Anna Badkhen and award-winning author Ben Fountain for a special CPCW clinic about writing radical fiction and nonfiction. Register to attend at: https://creative.writing.upenn.edu/events/2026/09/30/cpcw-clinic-radical-fiction-and-nonfiction

15/09/2026

Please join us at Kelly Writers House on Tuesday, September 29 for the Lucid Fiction Program, hosted by Anna Badkhen. This year, we are thrilled to welcome award-winning writer Ben Fountain for a reading and celebration of his latest novel, Rasputin Swims the Potomac.

Learn more and register to attend at https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0926.php #29

14/09/2026

Hoping to work in journalism, media, or publishing after college? Join us for the annual Careers in Journalism & Media alumni panel on Thursday, September 24 at Kelly Writers House!

Creative Writing Program Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing University of Pennsylvania 3809 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

21/08/2026

Beautiful new work from CW alum Emily Jungmin Yoon (C'13) is featured in Poem-a-Day. Read "After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email" at the link below:

With his two index fingers—“the eagle method,”

28/07/2026

Featured in Omnia magazine: read how support from Kelly Writers House and a formative workshop with Professor Nova Ren Suma helped shape Rowana Miller's (C'22) writing career.

Fresh off publishing her first book, Rowana Miller, C’22, shares how Penn shaped her writing career—plus the secret society that inspired her novel.

10/07/2026

Three decades ago a “ragtag army of squatter-minded poets” took possession of a modest cottage at 38th & Locust Walk and conjured by candlelight a vision of a “house for writers.” Today Kelly Writers House is a University institution that hosts a dizzying variety of classes, readings, and other events and sits at the center of a constellation of affiliated programs whose impact stretches around the globe. Read all about KWH at 30 at the link below!

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