The international writers series at Kelly Writers House
"Writers Without Borders" features writers from around the world whose fiction, drama, poetry, memoir, journalism, and performance art demand an international - and, what's more, a globally minded - readership and response. Through this ongoing series, Penn's provost has challenged the students and faculty who form the literary community at the Kelly Writers House to bring to the intimate cottage at 3805 Locust writers whose voices - whether because of regional unrest, cultural turmoil, aesthetic misunderstanding, the difficulty of travel, problems of translation, etc. - have not been much heard here. The setting, always conducive to workshop-style give-and-take, seems apt for introducing these writers to the broader Penn community and to our internationalist Philadelphia-area neighbors and partners.
Support for Writers Without Borders comes indeed from the Office of the Provost, supplemented by a generous start-up grant from Seth Ginns (C'00).
The Philadelphia City Paper wrote about Cecilia Vicuña and the Writers Without Borders series in their April 9, 2008 issue.