RealArts@PENN summer internships

Here is a video introduction to our "RealArts@PENN" summer internship program. Click here for more.

Amina Gautier on November 29

On Tuesday, November 29, starting at 6 PM, our "Cheryl Family Fiction Series" presents Amina Gautier. Amina Gautier is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for her short story collection At-Risk (University of Georgia Press). Over sixty-five of Gautier's stories have been published, appearing in Best African American Fiction, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Southern Review among other places. Her work has been honored with scholarships and fellowships from Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Ucross Residency, and Sewanee Writer's Conference and has been awarded the William Richey Prize, the Jack Dyer Award, the Schlafly Microftiction Award, the Danahy Fiction Prize, and a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Gautier teaches at DePaul University.

new PoemTalk episode now out

PoemTalk is a series of 30-minute podcasts/radio shows recording at the Writers House monthly. The format is simple: four people from the world of poetry and poetics gather to talk about a single poem for which there's a recording in the vast PennSound archive. Recently the 47th PoemTalk episode was released. Click here and have a listen!

Jennifer Egan back at KWH