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Kelly Writers House

Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Kelly Writers House (KWH) is an actual 13-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.

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2025 Grantees

• CAPA + KWH: A Writing Partnership
  • Kelly Writers House and Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts
  • 2025
  • Community Partnerships
  • Presenting Art Grant

2024 Grantees

• First-Year Seminar at the Kelly Writers House
  • Julia Bloch
  • 2024
  • Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Curricular Support
  • Department of English
  • Teaching Art Grant

2023 Grantees

• The Woodlands Magazine
  • Meg Gladieux and Mira Sydow
  • 2023
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Department of English
  • Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)
  • Penn Urban Studies
  • Student Grant
  • Student Creative Production
• Exactly the Same But Completely Different — Comics About Parenting
  • Alli Katz
  • 2023
  • Independent Creative Production
  • Making Art Grant
• Palestine Writes Literature Festival: Indigenous Stories of a Fabled Homeland
  • Huda Fakhreddine and Palestine Writes
  • 2023
  • Community Partnerships
  • Department of Cinema and Media Studies
  • Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)
  • Middle East Center
  • Presenting Art Grant
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Wolf Humanities Center

2022 Grantees

• Free Blue Stoop writing classes for West Philadelphia writers
  • Kelly Writers House with Blue Stoop
  • 2022
  • Community Partnerships
  • Presenting Art Grant

2021 Grantees

• Expanded Impact: Diversifying Modes of Engagement with Trans Youth Poets
  • Transcribez
  • 2021
  • Presenting Art Grant
  • Project Support
• Millennial Black Muslim Writers
  • Kelly Writers House
  • 2021
  • Presenting Art Grant
  • Project Support

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