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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 12/1
- Classes Resume after Thanksgiving Break
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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.
Tuesday, 12/2
- 7:00 PM: A reading by recipients of the Leeway
Foundation
Awards for
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction featuring Robin Black, Ilana
Stanger-Ross, and Sharon White.
Intended to honor Philadelphia-area women artists, Leeway's Awards to Emerging and Established Artists have been awarded annually in a selected visual or literary discipline and range from $2,500 to $35,000. Other readings will be held in venues throughout the Philadelphia area in November/December.
Emerging Artist Award Recipient Robin Black has lived in the Philadelphia area for more than 15 years. She first began writing fiction at Sarah Lawrence College in the early 1980s. In the past two years, while working with the Rittenhouse Writers' Group, Robin has devoted increasing time to her writing. Her story, "Gaining Ground" was featured in 2002 in the InterAct Theatre Company series "Writing Aloud," and will appear in the Alaska Quarterly Review this fall. She has reviewed books for The Philadelphia Inquirer and, as a juror for their first annual Readers' Prize, for ELLE magazine. She has also published personal essays. Robin lives in Bala Cynwyd with her husband Richard and three children.
Emerging Artist Award Recipient Ilana Stanger-Ross received her Master's in Fiction from Temple University in May of 2003. Her work has been published in Lilith Magazine, Red Rock Review, and The Bellevue Review and online at KillingtheBuddha.com and Fiction Attic. She is a recent recipient of a Ragdale Foundation Artist's Residency, and is currently working on a novel.
Established Artist Award Recipient Sharon White is the author of Field Notes, A Geography of Mourning, a memoir, and Bone House, a collection of poetry. Field Notes was awarded Honorable Mention for the Julia Ward Howe Prize from the Boston Authors Club. Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including House Beautiful, Yankee, Appalachia, and The North American Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Artist-in-Residence Program in Rocky Mountain National Park, and others. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.
For more information on the other readings in the series or on other Leeway programming, visit The Leeway Foundation or call 215.545.4078.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:00-4:00 PM in the Dining Room: Committee Meeting of the Critical Writing Program
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.upenn.edu.
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@english.upenn.edu).
- 7:45-10:00 PM in Room 202: English 1.307 (Jessica Lowenthal, jalowent@dept.english.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.
Wednesday, 12/3
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:15 PM in Room 209: Josh Shuster Reading Group
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@piconap.com)
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, 12/4
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Cathy
Steblyk
This talk will consider the relation of language to performance and the visual arts, particularly in the violence done to discourse in works by Ono and Fluxus. Ono's intermedia events and her re-constructive aims show a political and aesthetic goal that moves toward regeneration.
Cathy Steblyk teaches Comparative and Japanese literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Her areas of scholarship include feminist and cultural studies, twentieth-century Japanese literature, autobiographical fiction, the East Asian post-war avant-garde, and film. Among her publications, Steblyk has co-edited, with Evelyn Ellerman, Feminism and Postmodernism, a thematic issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (1994) and Josei gaku bukku gaido II (A Women's Studies Bibliography II) (1997). She has recently completed a cycle of papers on Japanese avant-garde art, performance, and poetry, including "Not that Language: The Political Agenda of Japan's Post-war Avant-Garde."
This event is cosponsored by: Women's Studies Program, Center for East Asian Studies, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Kelly Writers House.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Talking Film Internship
Panel
Penn students discuss recent successful internships with entertainment related companies. This will be followed by a Q and A session and tips on how to go about getting that spring or summer internship. Small reception to follow.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writers Workshop. For more information, or to join, contact Marty Kathrins at kathrins@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:30-9:30 PM in Room 209: Comp Lit Conference Planners Meeting
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.
Friday, 12/5
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/6
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.
Sunday, 12/7
- 3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading of Dickens's A Christmas
Carol, cosponsored by the English
Undergraduate Advisory Board. For more information, or to
sign up to read, contact english-uab@english.upenn.edu.
- 6:30-8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A READ OFF by the students of Paul Hendrickson's Advanced Non-Fiction and Documentary Writing workshops.
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, 12/8
- Last Day of Classes
- 24 Hour Writing Advising Begins at Noon.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGLISH 10 CREATIVE WRITING SHOWCASE READING: featuring students from Tom Devaney & Daisy Fried's English 10 classes.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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.
Tuesday, 12/9
- Reading Days
- 24 Hour Writing Advising Ends at Noon.
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Greg Djanikian's English 113 class
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.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.
Wednesday, 12/10
- Reading Days
- 7:00 PM: A group reading of students from Arcadia University, hosted by Randall
Couch.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
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, 12/11
- Reading Days
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6:00 PM: The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and Writers House present their joint annual
Gay Talese Lecture Series, with Frank Lentricchia. A reception will follow. RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Frank Lentricchia has taught at UCLA, UC Irvine and Rice. His chief interests lie in American literature, history of poetry, modernism, the aesthetics of reading, and the history and theory of criticism. His major critical publications include Crimes of Art + Terror (2003),with Jody McAuliffe; Close Reading: The Reader (2002), The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (1968), Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self (1975), After the New Criticism (1980), Criticism and Social Change (1983), Ariel and the Police (1988), Critical Terms for Literary Study (1990), Introducing Don DeLillo (1991), and New Essays on White Noise (1991). He has written a memoir, The Edge of Night (1994), and several acclaimed works of fiction, including Johnny Critelli and The Knifeman (1996) and Lucchesi and The Whale (2001). He teaches at Duke University, and was editorial chair of South Atlantic Quarterly for five years.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing (Max Apple)
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.
Friday, 12/12
- Final Exams
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Saturday, 12/13
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Sunday, 12/14
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Monday, 12/15
- Final Exams
- 4:00-5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Teaching Evaluation Session
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.
Tuesday, 12/16
- Final Exams
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.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.
Wednesday, 12/17
- Final Exams
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@piconap.com)
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, 12/18
- Final Exams
- 4:00 PM: CPCW Staff Holiday Party! (By invitation only)
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.
Friday, 12/19
- End of Fall Semester - Last Day of Final Exams
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Saturday, 12/20
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Sunday, 12/21
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Monday, 12/22
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Tuesday, 12/23
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Wednesday, 12/24
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Thursday, 12/25
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Friday, 12/26
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Saturday, 12/27
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Sunday, 12/28
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Monday, 12/29
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Tuesday, 12/30
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Wednesday, 12/31
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