Kelly Writers House Fellows

Kelly Writers House Fellows
writers teaching writers

Art Spiegelman
February 18-19, 2008

Lynne Sharon Schwartz
March 24-25, 2008

Jerome Rothenberg
April 28-29, 2008

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). The Tuesday morning program will be webcast live worldwide, and recordings of both the Monday and Tuesday programs will be available as a link from this page. For more about Writers House webcasts, click here. To participate (from a distance) in a webcast, 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 Jamie-Lee Josselyn.

The syllabi from previous years are available. For this year's course description, please see 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:


John McPhee February 12-13, 2007	Jamaica Kincaid March 19-20, 2007	Donald Hall April 16-17, 2007

Richard Ford February 13-14, 2006	Cyntia 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 2003	Laurie Anderson 2003	Susan Sontag 2003


Michael Cunningham 2002	John Ashbery 2002	Charles Fuller 2002


Tony Kushner 2001	David Sedaris 2001	June Jordan 2001


Grace Paley 2000	Robert Creeley 2000	John Edgar Wideman 2000


Gay Talese 1999

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Art Spiegelman February 18-19, 2008	Lynne Sharon Schwartz March 24-25, 2008	Jerome Rothenberg April 28-29, 2008

	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). The Tuesday morning program will be webcast live worldwide, and recordings of both the Monday and Tuesday programs will be available as a link from this page. For more about Writers House webcasts, click here. To participate (from a distance) in a webcast, 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 Jamie-Lee Josselyn. The syllabi from previous years are available. For this year's course description, please see 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: