The Art of Asking a Question
Question on questions for Andrea Mitchell CW’67 Hon’18.
Documenting the War
Residency program brings Syrian journalist to campus.
Covering the Trumps
Penn alum discusses her unique path to writing about the president’s family.
The ModPo Squad
A MOOC reinvigorates modern American poetry.
Journalism’s Digital Doyenne
Weber Symposium features digital journalist Kara Swisher.
Inside Cleaver
Karen Rile C’80 wields Cleaver.
Failure Is Your Friend
Megan McArdle C’94 on how you can win for losing.
A Labor of Love from Her Brain to Yours
Brain Pickings is Maria Popova C’07’s “one-woman labor of love.”
Talking About Words (and Music)
Latest crop of clubs from Kelly Writers House.
Alumni Book Groups at Kelly Writers House
This year's online book discussions will focus on everything from "linked narratives" and short stories to poems and Bob Dylan.
A Story-Winning Prize
CPCW award for innovation: start the (hand-cranked) presses!
The House that Writers Built
The Kelly Writers House celebrates 10 years as an experimental learning community and literary “sandbox.”
Ben’s Big Day
Franklin turns 300
How to Succeed in Hollywood By Really Trying
Andy Wolk C’70 on writing, directing, and Hollywood success.
Three’s Company
2003 Writers House Fellows: Bernstein, Anderson, and Sontag
An Apple a Day Keeps the Writers Block Away
The Appling of Kelly Writers House
Sweet Smell of Success
David Sedaris on the joys of housecleaning.
Wideman on Campus
The writer John Edgar Wideman—a star athlete and Rhodes Scholar at Penn in the early sixties—was back on campus last spring. In a wide-ranging interview at Kelly Writers House, he talked about the construction of reality, the joys of basketball, the writer’s search for a subject and the mysterious power of faith.
Writers House Expands Guest List
Three named as Kelly Writers House Fellows
Penn & Ink
A reading series at Kelly Writers House is bringing in a stream of alumni poets, fiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, editors, and literary agents back to campus—many for their first time since graduation.
Making the Cultural Scene at the Writers House
Writers on campus get a room -- several, actually -- of their own.