#upenncreativewriting

Thanks to Mighty Writers' West Philly branch for inviting us in to "pre-teach" our lessons.  With these young writers' focus and experience, it was almost cheating; they were bound to write something good!

The Mighty Writers used a few of Kevin Powers' techniques, and some of his strong nouns and verbs, to create powerful prose descriptions of home and sacred spaces, and haiku about distance and mortality.

Julie Steiner has made room for UPenn writing students to come share the 2014 One Book One Philadelphia novel, The Yellow Birds, with her AP English class at Walter Biddle Saul High School for Agricultural Science. The members of Lorene Cary's writing class are very grateful to the students and to Ms. Steiner, a 2013 recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation's Distinguished teaching Award. 

We invite them and the Mighty Writers to our reading at Kelly Writers House on Friday, May 2, at 4 pm at Kelly Writers House, where we will display this site and thank them again in person.