Creative Writing Program at Penn State

Readings, workshops, seminars, college-level discussions, a featured writer and swag! Students will generate new work, discuss literature, work with publishing authors, and meet like-minded young writers. Though open to any student who enjoys reading and writing, this event is particularly aimed towards sophomores and juniors considering the study of writing at the university level. Contact: Camille-Yvette Welsch Associate Teaching Professor … Continue reading High School Writing Day at Penn State →

Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery … Continue reading 2019 Emily Dickinson Lectureship: Terrance Hayes →

The Red Weather Reading Series is hosting Danielle Cadena Deulen, award-winning poet and essayist, for a reading on Wednesday, September 25, at 6pm in the Grucci Room (102 Burrowes). Danielle is the author of a memoir, The Riots; two poetry collections, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us and Lovely Asunder; and a poetry chapbook, American Libretto. … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Danielle Cadena Deulen →

Vicki Glembocki is an award-winning magazine writer, author of the memoir The Second Nine Months, and a contributing editor at Readers Digest. Her work has appeared in Playboy, Women’s Health, Parents, Philadelphia Magazine, Salon, The Daily Beast, More, and Ladies Home Journal. She earned a BA and MFA from Penn State and currently lives near Atlanta with her Australian cattle dog, husband, and three daughters.

The “Art of Poetry” series at the Palmer Museum is co-sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program. On Wednesday, October 16, poet and essayist Jerry Wemple will be offering a reading and Q&A, just after noon at the Palmer. Jerry Wemple's most recent book is a series of linked, narrative poems; The Artemas Poems focuses on the … Continue reading Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum to Present Jerry Wemple →

Brian Brodeur is the author of five collections of poetry including Every Hour Is Late (2019) and the chapbook Local Fauna (2015). Recent poems and essays appear in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Times Literary Supplement, and The Writer's Chronicle. Brian is founder and coordinator of How a Poem Happens, an … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Brian Brodeur →

Camille-Yvette Welsch is the author of FULL and The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom. Her work has appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Zone 3, Menacing Hedge, and many other publications. She is a Teaching Professor of English at Penn State and the director of the High School Writing Day at … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Camille-Yvette Welsch →

Callan Wink works as a fly fishing guide in Livingston, MT. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men's Journal, The Best American Short Stories Anthology and others. He is the recipient of a NEA creative writing fellowship and a Wallace Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. His first book of stories, Dog … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Callan Wink →

Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Native Species (2019) and Winterkill (2016), both published by Michigan State University Press. He’s the winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year silver and bronze awards. Davis is professor of English and environmental studies … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Todd Davis →