 Patti Smith February 24-25, 2025 |
 Carmen Maria Machado March 31-April 1, 2025 |
 Alice Notley April 28-29, 2025 |
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 generally be available as a link from this page a week or so after the events.
The coordinator of the Writers House Fellows program is Sophia DuRose.
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.
 Jamaica Kincaid February 26-27, 2024 |
 Harryette Mullen April 1-2, 2024 |
 Maggie Nelson April 29-30, 2024 |
 Joan Retallack Feb 20-21, 2023 |
 Wayne Koestenbaum April 24-25, 2023 |
 Jason Reynolds March 27-28, 2023 |
 Amitav Ghosh February 21-22, 2022 |
 Caroline Bergvall March 28-29, 2022 |
 Doug Glanville April 25-26, 2022 |
 Erica Hunt February 22-23, 2021 |
 Hilton Als March 29-30, 2021 |
 Gabrielle Hamilton April 26-27, 2021 |
 Saidiya Hartman February 17-18, 2020 |
 Erín Moure March 30, 2020 |
 Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris April 27-28, 2020 |
 John Keene February 11-12, 2019 |
 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge March 25-26, 2019 |
 Rosanne Cash April 22-23, 2019 |
 Paul Auster February 14-15, 2018 |
 Bernadette Mayer March 26-27, 2018 |
 Charles M. Blow April 23-24, 2018 |
 Lydia Davis April 24-25, 2017 |
 Nathaniel Mackey March 20-21, 2017 |
 Maria Bamford February 6-7, 2017 |
 Matthew Weiner April 25-26, 2016 |
 Eileen Myles March 21-22, 2016 |
 Samuel Delany February 15-16, 2016 |
 Anne Waldman February 16-17, 2015 |
 Dorothy Allison March 23-24, 2015 |
 Jessica Hagedorn April 27-28, 2015 |
 Buzz Bissinger February 17-18, 2014 |
 T.C. Boyle March 31-April 1, 2014 |
 Rae Armantrout April 28-29, 2014 |
 John Ashbery February 11-12, 2013 |
 Janet Malcolm March 18-19, 2013 |
 Rodrigo García April 22-23, 2013 |
 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 |