April 2025
Tuesday, 4/1/2025
A conversation with Carmen Maria Machado
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
10:00 AM in person
rsvp required: whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Body and Other Parties was listed as a member of “The New Vanguard” by the New York Times in 2018, as one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a 2019 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and a visiting associate professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Spring 2021.
Wednesday, 4/2/2025
Thursday, 4/3/2025
Friday, 4/4/2025
Saturday, 4/5/2025
Sunday, 4/6/2025
Monday, 4/7/2025
Tuesday, 4/8/2025
Wednesday, 4/9/2025
Thursday, 4/10/2025
Friday, 4/11/2025
Saturday, 4/12/2025
Sunday, 4/13/2025
Monday, 4/14/2025
A meeting of the writers house planning committee
5:30 PM in person
rsvp: register here to attend in person
Join us for a meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee (also known as "the Hub") — the core group of engaged students, staff, faculty, and volunteers who help make things happen at Writers House. Anyone is welcome to become a Hub member by participating in Hub activities and helping out. Members of the Hub plan programs, share ideas, and discuss upcoming projects.
Tuesday, 4/15/2025
Wednesday, 4/16/2025
Thursday, 4/17/2025
Friday, 4/18/2025
Saturday, 4/19/2025
Sunday, 4/20/2025
Monday, 4/21/2025
Tuesday, 4/22/2025
Emma Eisenberg: reading and conversation
But Company Reading Series
6:00 PM in person
hosted by: Michelle Taransky
co-sponsored by: the LGBT Center
rsvp: register here to attend in person
Credit: Kenzi Crash
Emma Copley (pronounced cop-ley) Eisenberg is the author of the nationally bestselling novel Housemates and the narrative nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Award, among other honors. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, VQR, American Short Fiction, and other publications. Raised in New York City, she lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.
Wednesday, 4/23/2025
Thursday, 4/24/2025
Friday, 4/25/2025
Saturday, 4/26/2025
Sunday, 4/27/2025
Monday, 4/28/2025
A reading by Alice Notley
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
6:30 PM in person
rsvp required: whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Notley’s recent work includes Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Certain Magical Acts (2016). Notley has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Paris, France.
Tuesday, 4/29/2025
A conversation with Alice Notley
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
10:00 AM in person
rsvp required: whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
<Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Notley’s recent work includes Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Certain Magical Acts (2016). Notley has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Paris, France.