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Hear a message about upcoming special events from Faculty Director Al Filreis.
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The following happy message has been sent to many friends of the Writers House:
I'm very pleased to announce the winner of the first annual Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring at the Kelly Writers House. She is Karen Rile, a super-devoted and extraordinarily talented teacher who has taught part-time as a member of the Creative Writing faculty for many years. She offers writing workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, and year after year her students, in their evaluations and otherwise, give her the highest possible praise as mentor and supportive writerly presence. She has always gone way out of her way to help emergent writers. And she has long been a friend of the Kelly Writers House and a member of the KWH community. We are pleased that this award will provide her with a $1,000 stipend and up to $2,200 to spend on organizing and hosting a program at the Writers House in the coming academic year (2012-13).
We will be celebrating Karen as our first Beltran Award winner at our end-of-year "hub" party at the Writers House starting at 5 PM on Wednesday, April 25. We will honor her again at the program she sponsors next year.
If you know and share our admiration of Karen, please feel free to congratulate her on this honor: krile@writing.upenn.edu.
