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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 11/1
Tuesday, 11/2
Wednesday, 11/3
Thursday, 11/4
Friday, 11/5
Saturday, 11/6
Sunday, 11/7
Monday, 11/8
Tuesday, 11/9
Wednesday, 11/10
Thursday, 11/11
Friday, 11/12
Saturday, 11/13
Sunday, 11/14
Monday, 11/15
Tuesday, 11/16
Wednesday, 11/17 Listen to a recording of the event HERE.
Thursday, 11/18
Friday, 11/19
Saturday, 11/20
  • Click here for a recording of this event.


      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.

    • 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School

    Sunday, 11/21

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


    Monday, 11/22

    Tuesday, 11/23
    • 6:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Thanksgiving Dinner. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.

    • 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
    • 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
    • 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
    • 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
    • 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
    • 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview Meeting
    • 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Penn English Modernism and Twentieth-Century Reading Group, cosponsored by The Penn English American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Justine Murison.
    • 7:00 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.org.

    Wednesday, 11/24
    • Thanksgiving Break beings at close of classes

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


    Thursday, 11/25
    • Thanksgiving

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.

    • 9-10:30 PM in Room 202: The Compass meeting

    Friday, 11/26
    • Thanksgiving Break

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


    Saturday, 11/27

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.

    • 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School

    Sunday, 11/28

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


    Monday, 11/29

      Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.

    • 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
    • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
    • 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
    • 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
    • 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets Meeting

    Tuesday, 11/30
    • 6:00 PM: Penn's Creative Writing Program presents a reading by fiction writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz


      Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Fatigue Artist and Leaving Brooklyn and two short story collections. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Essays, and many other places, and her reviews, essays, and satirical pieces have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Her books have been nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives in New York City.

      Download a recording of this event here.



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    University of Pennsylvania