Friday, December 21, 2012

10 new paid RealArts summer internships


I am very pleased to announce the 2013 Real Arts@PENN internships - the fifth summer of this innovative project. This program is intended to support creative Penn undergraduates doing art in the realm of practice. This year, RealArts is sponsoring ten paid ten internships:

Viacom Creative Services
Rolling Stone Magazine
Brooklyn Films
Philadelphia Magazine
Original Film
David Stern and Stuart Gibbs, Writers
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Shore Fire Media
The Jewish Museum

Yes, RealArts will pay you a stipend to work in such venues. This summer's stipends will be $4000.

We're happy to emphasize that RealArts internships and programs are open to students in all four undergraduate schools.

Why are we doing this? What other projects will we sponsor? How do you apply? When is the deadline? Go here:

www.writing.upenn.edu/realarts

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Maria Popova in the NY Times

Former Penn Creative Writing student and Writers House regular Maria Popova was recently featured in an article in the New York Times. Her blog is called "Brain Pickings."
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Jenny Egan receives award

Recently Jennifer Egan - who in her time at Penn was a Creative Writing student and has since become a close friend of the Writers House - was presented with the "Creative Spirit Award" at Penn during homecoming weekend. Diana Cavallo presented the award; Diana taught Creative Writing at Penn for many years, and was Jenny's teacher.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

KWH hosts online course on mod & contemp poetry


Enroll here. The course is free and begins on September 1.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Karen Rile wins Beltran Family Teaching Award

The following happy message has been sent to many friends of the Writers House:

I'm very pleased to announce the winner of the first annual Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring at the Kelly Writers House. She is Karen Rile, a super-devoted and extraordinarily talented teacher who has taught part-time as a member of the Creative Writing faculty for many years. She offers writing workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, and year after year her students, in their evaluations and otherwise, give her the highest possible praise as mentor and supportive writerly presence. She has always gone way out of her way to help emergent writers. And she has long been a friend of the Kelly Writers House and a member of the KWH community. We are pleased that this award will provide her with a $1,000 stipend and up to $2,200 to spend on organizing and hosting a program at the Writers House in the coming academic year (2012-13).

We will be celebrating Karen as our first Beltran Award winner at our end-of-year "hub" party at the Writers House starting at 5 PM on Wednesday, April 25. We will honor her again at the program she sponsors next year.

If you know and share our admiration of Karen, please feel free to congratulate her on this honor: krile@writing.upenn.edu.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

10 paid summer internships - RealArts@PENN

We received hundreds of applications again this year for ten paid summer RealArts@PENN internships. Below is a list of the students who have been appointed as RealArts interns for 2012.

For more about RealArts: CLICK HERE.

We want to thank Mingo Reynolds, who coordinates RealArts; and Anthony DeCurtis, Director of RealArts and creator of the series of RealArts events and symposia at the Kelly Writers House. We also wish to thank Dirk Wittenborn, Paul & Ossi Burger, & Alan Berger for their support of RealArts.

The quality of the applications was very high, the competition acute.

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Interning with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial blog "Say What?” will be Lalita Clozel. Lalita is a junior majoring in Philosophy and Economics.

Nadine Zylberberg will be interning at Original Film. Nadine is a Communication and Cinema Studies major, with a minor in French, and she is a writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian.

The intern at Philadelphia Magazine will be Eillie Anzilotti. Eillie is a junior concentrating in Creative Writing, and minoring in Fine Arts.

Natalia Fuller, a junior History of Art major who focuses in Contemporary Art, will be interning at The Jewish Museum this summer.

The intern at Viacom Creative Services (formerly MTV Creative Services) will be Jake Spinowitz. Jake is a junior and a Creative Writing student.

This years Rolling Stone magazine intern will be Joe Pinsker. Joe is a junior studying nonfiction and journalistic writing and is an editor at 34th Street.

Elaine Ogden, a junior majoring in English, will be working at Brooklyn Films in L.A. with producer/director Jon Avnet.

The intern at Nickelodeon Animation Studios will be Kirby Dixon. Kirby is a junior Visual Arts major with a minor in Spanish.

Tim Delaney will be working in L.A. with screenwriters David Stern and Stuart Gibbs. Tim is a junior English major with a focus in Cinema Studies, and he is also a Communications major.

The intern for Shore Fire Media is Greg Bonnem, a junior studying Communications and Hispanic Studies.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Anthony DeCurtis talks about Joy Division at 7-Up


At our annual 7-UP event, seven KWH friends talk for seven minutes each about a topic the community has chosen. This year the theme was "isolation." Here is a link to the web calendar entry, which provides a list of speakers and their topics. Here is a link to our web page on the whole 7-UP series.