April 2026
Wednesday, 4/1/2026
Thursday, 4/2/2026
Friday, 4/3/2026
Saturday, 4/4/2026
Sunday, 4/5/2026
Monday, 4/6/2026
A Meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee
5:30 PM 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, 4/7/2026
Wednesday, 4/8/2026
Thursday, 4/9/2026
Friday, 4/10/2026
Saturday, 4/11/2026
Sunday, 4/12/2026
Monday, 4/13/2026
Tuesday, 4/14/2026
Wednesday, 4/15/2026
Thursday, 4/16/2026
Friday, 4/17/2026
Saturday, 4/18/2026
Sunday, 4/19/2026
Monday, 4/20/2026
Tuesday, 4/21/2026
Wednesday, 4/22/2026
Thursday, 4/23/2026
Friday, 4/24/2026
Saturday, 4/25/2026
Sunday, 4/26/2026
Monday, 4/27/2026
A READING BY AYANA MATHIS
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
6:30 PM in person
rsvp required: whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone. Mathis has been the recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, and the American Academy in Berlin. She was the first Black woman to be a permanent member of the faculty at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has taught in MFA Programs at Columbia University and Rutgers. She currently hosts and curates the Black Arts Dialogues series, a conversation series centered around art and Blackness hosted by the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department at Columbia University, and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Hunter College.
Tuesday, 4/28/2026
A Conversation with AYANA MATHIS
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
10:00 AM in person
rsvp required: whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone. Mathis has been the recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, and the American Academy in Berlin. She was the first Black woman to be a permanent member of the faculty at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has taught in MFA Programs at Columbia University and Rutgers. She currently hosts and curates the Black Arts Dialogues series, a conversation series centered around art and Blackness hosted by the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department at Columbia University, and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Hunter College.