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{{toplink|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/wh|name=writing.upenn.edu/wh}}[[File:KellyWritersHouse.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Kelly Writers House.]]'''Kelly Writers House''' {{gives}}<blockquote>Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Kelly Writers House is an actual 13-room house at 3805 Locust Walk on Penn's campus that serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region at large. Each semester the Writers House hosts approximately 150 public programs and projects--poetry readings, film screenings, seminars, web magazines, lectures, dinners, radio broadcasts, workshops, art exhibits, and musical performances--and about 500 people visit the House each week. They work, write, and collaborate in seminar rooms, a publications room, the "hub" office, a cozy living room, a dining room, a kitchen with plenty of space for conversation, and "the Arts Cafe," the wonderfully open south-facing room that was originally the parlor. Writers House also has a strong virtual presence. Our ongoing interactive webcasts give listeners from across the country the opportunity to talk with writers such as Ian Frazier, Richard Ford, and Cynthia Ozick. And via our dozens of listservs and email discussion groups, we link writers and readers from across the country and around the world. Through its many programs and projects, the Writers House promotes the full range of contemporary literature, addressing writing both as a practice and as an object of study.<br><br>The intrepid band of students, faculty and Penn staff who formed the Writers House in the fall of 1995 were committed to a form of literary communitarianism. The mission statement they wrote--it's really a declaration of academic independence--expresses this idealism.<br><br>So far as we know, there is no other facility like the Kelly Writers House anywhere.</blockquote>
  
Conceived in the communitarian spirit, the Writers House provides a warm and welcoming home within Penn's pre-professional culture for wild freethinkers, capacious scholars, voracious readers, and creative writers of all styles and stripes. We host an almost outrageous array of writing-related projects, programs, and activities for the Penn and Philadelphia communities: tutoring and literacy outreach projects, reading and writing groups, classes and workshops, book parties and book drives, poetry readings and open mic nights, catered dinners and impromptu coffee klatches.  
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==In The News==
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*[http://hiddencityphila.org/2022/10/kelly-writers-house-celebrates-25th-anniversary/ Kelly Writers House celebrates 25th anniversary], Hidden City Philadelphia, October 18, 2022.
  
More than five hundred people come to the Writers House each week. Penn undergraduates take creative writing classes here and meet friends in the kitchen to chat over coffee. The House is home base and production office for our many student-produced publications. Grade school kids visit on Fridays and Saturdays to play writing games and chess with Penn students. We host writers from all over the world for readings, recordings, interviews, webcasts, podcasts, and dinners. We welcome partnerships with programs and organizations from Penn and all over Philadelphia. Literary enthusiasts gather on and around the green couch to study, write, read, and talk shop. All of these people make up the Kelly Writers House community.
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==Info==
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*Event Calendar:&nbsp;[http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar Calendar]
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*Twitter:&nbsp;[http://twitter.com/kellywritershse @kellywritershse]
  
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*[[University of Pennsylvania]]
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Kelly Writers House.

Kelly Writers House gives the following descriptive information:

Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Kelly Writers House is an actual 13-room house at 3805 Locust Walk on Penn's campus that serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region at large. Each semester the Writers House hosts approximately 150 public programs and projects--poetry readings, film screenings, seminars, web magazines, lectures, dinners, radio broadcasts, workshops, art exhibits, and musical performances--and about 500 people visit the House each week. They work, write, and collaborate in seminar rooms, a publications room, the "hub" office, a cozy living room, a dining room, a kitchen with plenty of space for conversation, and "the Arts Cafe," the wonderfully open south-facing room that was originally the parlor. Writers House also has a strong virtual presence. Our ongoing interactive webcasts give listeners from across the country the opportunity to talk with writers such as Ian Frazier, Richard Ford, and Cynthia Ozick. And via our dozens of listservs and email discussion groups, we link writers and readers from across the country and around the world. Through its many programs and projects, the Writers House promotes the full range of contemporary literature, addressing writing both as a practice and as an object of study.

The intrepid band of students, faculty and Penn staff who formed the Writers House in the fall of 1995 were committed to a form of literary communitarianism. The mission statement they wrote--it's really a declaration of academic independence--expresses this idealism.

So far as we know, there is no other facility like the Kelly Writers House anywhere.

In The News

Info

See Also