December 2025
Monday, 12/1/2025
Live at the Writers House
A monthly radio show produced at the KWH in collaboration with WXPN
6:30 PM in person
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LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration anong the people of the Kelly Writers House and WXPN (88.5 FM). Six times annually between September and April, we gather at the KWH to record a one-hour show of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art for broadcast by WXPN. Edited by Zach Carduner and produced by Alli Katz, LIVE at the Writers House is made possible thorugh the generous support of BigRoc.
Tuesday, 12/2/2025
Wednesday, 12/3/2025
Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction Class Reading
6:00 PM in person
sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program
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Why do poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath turn to fiction as a way to revitalize their poetic practice? Why do novelists such as Herman Hesse and Herta Müller turn to poetry? And what about writers who work in both genres, such as Zbigniew Herbert and Paul Auster? Students in Ahmad Almallah's English 3010 will share their own creative excursions into these questions by reading from their own poems and short fiction.
Thursday, 12/4/2025
Kelly Writers House First-Year Seminar Class Reading
12:00 PM in person
sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program
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Students in Julia Bloch's Kelly Writers House First-Year Seminar have spent the semester discovering what it means to work in and around the "third space" of the Writers House as poets, fiction writers, journalists, and scholars. We've had readings, author visits, workshops, field trips, and excursions into the practice of literary curation, plus a series of special Truth and Disinformation Lab experiments with meaning and message. Now, it's our turn. Come hear a selection of works created by students themselves!
Friday, 12/5/2025
Saturday, 12/6/2025
Sunday, 12/7/2025
Monday, 12/8/2025
Intro to Creative Writing: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Class Reading
7:00 PM in person
sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program
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A final reading of brief and beautiful creative nonfiction by students in Taije Silverman's English 3018. Come hear short essays about menopause and killer whales, about why football players fear chairs, about death rituals, mental illness, and the happiest animal on earth. Free and open to the public.