Creative Writing at PENN STATE

Tempest Studio’s Hometown Voices Performance & Reading Series, with Steven Sherrill and Rachael Lyon Wiley.      

Christine Hume (PSU, 1990) is the author of an essay collection on sex offenders and women’s bodies, Everything I Never Wanted to Know, (OSU Press/21st Century Essays Series, 2023) and a lyric portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), as well as several books of poetry. Since 2001, she has been a faculty member […]

Join Webster’s Bookstore and Café for the launch of “Burning Down The House: Crime Fiction Incited by the Songs of the Talking Heads” — a new charity crime fiction anthology to help fight climate change. Featuring State College based author and anthology editor Michel Lee Garrett, co-editor T. Fox Dunham, Alex Award-winning writer Gregory Galloway, […]

Penn State's undergraduate literary and visual arts journal, Kalliope, will celebrate the release of its most recent edition on April 25, 6:30 pm, at Abba Java Coffeehouse in State College. Come help celebrate, hear students read their work, and pick up a copy of the newest edition of this student publication, published annually for the […]

Tempest Studio’s Hometown Voices Performance & Reading Series, with Amanda Passmore-Ott and Dave Housley.  

O. Henry and Pushcart Prize winner Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf ’21), which was awareded the National Jewish […]