Alice Walker once said, “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.” Throughout history, writers have used their words to pay that rent. It is…
Tomorrow Philadelphia Writers’ Conference will mark our 72nd annual event by hosting our first-ever virtual conference — proving, perhaps, that you can teach an old conference…
A small collection of panels, workshops, and readings so that you don’t miss our annual conference too much! All in the comfort of your own home!…
Dear Ones, This time last year, we were wrapping up another PWC weekend: finishing three-day workshops, outlining new projects, grabbing a stack of magazines from the…
Writers in Jeannine Cook’s Wednesday Essay as Activism Write@Home forum are working on essays based on Octavia Butler’s essay, Positive Obsession. This is a guest post…
Since we’re not having a conference this year, we are providing an online series of forums, WRITE@HOME, to give writers something to do and somewhere to…
Board member David Kozinski knows poetry. And he knows our Poetry Master Class Leader Yolanda Wisher is an incredible poet, teacher, and performer. David grabbed some…
David Greenberg opens up to PWC about his process as a screenwriter: How has your personal writing community influenced and assisted you? It is really important…
The Philadelphia Writers’ Conference board of directors, in partnership with The Tavern on the Edge in Gloucester City, NJ, is happy to present “Noir Over the…
Today’s assignment—brushing diluted adhesive across tiny field specimen numbers to seal the numbers inked onto hundreds of sherds—is Zen-like in its tedium. Hours pass, marked…