 John Ashbery February 11-12, 2013 |
 Janet Malcolm March 18-19, 2013 |
 Rodrigo García April 22-23, 2013 |
Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction -- more honored in practice than in theory -- between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.
During the visit of each Fellow, a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation; attendance for both programs is by rsvp only (rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu). Both programs will be broadcast live worldwide on KWH-TV and both of the Monday and Tuesday programs will be available as a link from this page. On Tuesday morning, you can participate along with the KWH-TV broadcast by emailing and phoning in questions. To participate (from a distance), write to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. When responding, please specify exactly which program you are interested in.
In the Writers House Fellows Seminar, students will study the work of all three Fellows. The course is taught by Kelly Professor and Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis. This year's coordinator of the program is Lily Applebaum.
Seminar notes are available here:
For more information about these events, please email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
Click on the images below for the biographies of the past fellows, as well as links to archived webcasts of their visits.
 Karen Finley February 13-14, 2012 |
 Ron Silliman March 19-20, 2012 |
 John Barth April 23-24, 2012 |
 Susan Cheever February 14-15, 2011 |
 Edward Albee March 21-22, 2011 |
 Marjorie Perloff April 25-26, 2011 |
 Joyce Carol Oates February 15-16, 2010 |
 Susan Howe March 22-23, 2010 |
 David Milch April 26-27, 2010 |
 Robert Coover February 23-24, 2009 |
 Joan Didion March 30-31, 2009 |
 Mary Gordon April 27-28, 2009 |
 Art Spiegelman February 18-19, 2008 |
 Lynne Sharon Schwartz March 24-25, 2008 |
 Jerome Rothenberg April 28-29, 2008 |
 John McPhee February 12-13, 2007 |
 Jamaica Kincaid March 19-20, 2007 |
 Donald Hall April 16-17, 2007 |
 Richard Ford February 13-14, 2006 |
 Cynthia Ozick March 20-21, 2006 |
 Ian Frazier April 17-18, 2006 |
 Roger Angell February 28-March 1, 2005 |
 E.L. Doctorow March 21-22, 2005 |
 Adrienne Rich April 18-19, 2005 |
 Russell Banks February 16-17, 2004 |
 Lyn Hejinian February 21-22, 2005 |
 James Alan McPherson April 19-20, 2004 |
 Walter Bernstein March 17-18, 2003 |
 Laurie Anderson March 24-25, 2003 |
 Susan Sontag April 21-22, 2003 |
 Michael Cunningham February 11-12, 2002 |
 John Ashbery March 25-26, 2002 |
 Charles Fuller April 15-16, 2002 |
 Tony Kushner February 12-13, 2001 |
 David Sedaris March 5-6, 2001 |
 June Jordan April 23-24, 2001 |
 Grace Paley February 14-15, 2000 |
 Robert Creeley April 10-11, 2000 |
 John Edgar Wideman April 24-25, 2000 |
 Gay Talese February 3, 1999 |