Kelly Writers House

Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Kelly Writers House is an actual 15-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. Please visit us in person or online to get involved.

Address

3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Kelly Writers House

Events at the Writers House

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Explore upcoming Writers House events

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Learn about annual programs and series

Online Resources

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Join a free, online poetry class

Join-a-book-group

Join a book group

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Listen to a poetry podcast

Discover-poems

Discover poems

Read-about-contemporary-poetry

Read about contemporary poetry

Opportunities for Penn Students

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Join a magazine or club

Find-an-internship

Find an internship

Kelly Writers House

Take a Creative Writing class

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Join our staff

Get-funding-for-your-idea

Get funding for your idea

Opportunities for high school students

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Apply for the Summer Workshop for Young Writers

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Prospective Penn student? Start here!

Connections

Love, ca. 1966, Metal, Robert Indiana

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“It goes by fast,” displayed at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

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Kelly Writers House

Serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region.

Kelly Writers House Arts Cafe

Academic departments

Encompassing the full range of creative practices and the academic disciplines that interpret their histories, meanings, and methods.

2023 CDI Cohort members including, from left to right: Ricardo O. Howell (Academic Affairs), Corine Labridy (FIGS), and Lisa Ann Britton (FIGS) in conversation