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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 10/1
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156 "Photographs and Stories" with Hendrickson
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Levin
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 209: a poetry workshop with Leonard Gontarek. For more information, contact Leonard at gontarekl@earthlink.net.
Thursday, 10/2
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117 "The Arts and Popular Culture" with DeCurtis
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135 "Creative Non-Fiction Writing" with Apple
Friday, 10/3
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130 "Advanced Screen Writing" with Wolk
Saturday, 10/4
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/5
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 10/6
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hub Planned Event. Please RSVP to jalowent@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 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 162 "The 2008 Presidential Primaries" with Polman.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115 "Advanced Fiction Writing" with Rile
Tuesday, 10/7
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112 "Fiction Writing Workshop" with Apple
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Reents
Wednesday, 10/8
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156 "Photographs and Stories" with Hendrickson
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Levin
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 209: a poetry workshop with Leonard Gontarek. For more information, contact Leonard at gontarekl@earthlink.net.
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Cinema. For more information, contact Dustin Blank at dustin.s.blank@gmail.com
Thursday, 10/9
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117 "The Arts and Popular Culture" with DeCurtis
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135 "Creative Non-Fiction Writing" with Apple
Friday, 10/10
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130 "Advanced Screen Writing" with Wolk
Saturday, 10/11
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/12
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 10/13
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 162 "The 2008 Presidential Primaries" with Polman.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115 "Advanced Fiction Writing" with Rile
Tuesday, 10/14
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112 "Fiction Writing Workshop" with Apple
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Reents
Wednesday, 10/15
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156 "Photographs and Stories" with Hendrickson
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Levin
Thursday, 10/16
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for KWH Art Opening.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117 "The Arts and Popular Culture" with DeCurtis
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135 "Creative Non-Fiction Writing" with Apple
Friday, 10/17
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130 "Advanced Screen Writing" with Wolk
Saturday, 10/18
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/19
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 10/20
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House tapes with host Michaela Majoun.
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche (gautsche@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 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 162 "The 2008 Presidential Primaries" with Polman.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115 "Advanced Fiction Writing" with Rile
Tuesday, 10/21
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with Jim Shepard. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Department.
Jim Shepard is acclaimed for his work as a fiction writer and novelist. His awards for fiction writing include the Transatlantic Review Award, Henfield Foundation for "Eustace," the Massachusetts Cultural Council artists' grant in fiction, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award, and both the Library of Congress/Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction and the Alex Award for Fiction from the Young-Adult Library Science Services Association for his novel Project X. He was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for his collection of short stories, Like You'd Understand, Anyway.
Shepard is best known for his novels, both for adult and young adult readers, and his award-winning short stories. His novels include Flights (1983), Paper Doll (1987), Lights out in the Reptile House (1990), Kiss of the Wolf (1994), Nosferatu (1998), and Project X (2004). His short story collections include Batting for Castro (1996), Love and Hydrogen: New and Collected Stories (2004), and Like You'd Understand, Anyway (2007). He has also written sports fiction for young adults jointly with William Hollinger in the "Johnson Boys Series" under the joint pseudonym of Scott Eller: The Football Wars (1992), First Base, First Place (1993), That Soccer Season (1993), and Jump Shot (1994). He also co-wrote Short Season (1985) and Twenty-first Century Fox (1989) with Hollinger under the same pseudonym.
Shepard attended Trinity College in Hartford, obtaining his BA in 1976, before relocating to Brown to work on his Master's Degree, which he completed in 1980. He lectured in creative writing from 1980-1983 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after which he started on as an assistant professor at Williams College. In 1990 Shepard became a full professor there, and he teaches courses in fiction and film at Williams to this day.
He has been an editor for such publications as You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe (1994), Unleashed: Poems by Writer's Dogs (1995), Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies (2000), and Spellbound: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe. He contributes to various periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, McSweeney's, Gentleman's Quarterly, Playboy, Esquire, Harper's, New Yorker, and Redbook.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112 "Fiction Writing Workshop" with Apple
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Reents
Wednesday, 10/22
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156 "Photographs and Stories" with Hendrickson
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Levin
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Cinema. For more information, contact Dustin Blank at dustin.s.blank@gmail.com
Thursday, 10/23
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117 "The Arts and Popular Culture" with DeCurtis
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135 "Creative Non-Fiction Writing" with Apple
Friday, 10/24
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130 "Advanced Screen Writing" with Wolk
Saturday, 10/25
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/26
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 10/27
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 162 "The 2008 Presidential Primaries" with Polman.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115 "Advanced Fiction Writing" with Rile
Tuesday, 10/28
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents:
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112 "Fiction Writing Workshop" with Apple
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Reents
Wednesday, 10/29
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156 "Photographs and Stories" with Hendrickson
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010 "Creative Writing" with Levin
Thursday, 10/30
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117 "The Arts and Popular Culture" with DeCurtis
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135 "Creative Non-Fiction Writing" with Apple
Friday, 10/31
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130 "Advanced Screen Writing" with Wolk
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