In addition to the wide range of craft workshops, the informational panels, the Master class offerings, agents, editors, manuscript feedback, and networking with the wider writing…
Back by popular demand! The incredible Yolanda Wisher will be returning to the PWC to lead two days of Master Classes at the 2019 Conference! Poet,…
The PWC Board of directors is happy to announce that poet extraordinaire Warren C Longmire will be teaching a three-day poetry workshop at next year’s conference.…
Sometime in the early 2000s I wound my way up Philadelphia’s narrow, steep Green Lane through Manayunk and into Roxborough to attend a poetry reading at…
Board member Alice Wootson, author of eleven romance novels, Mad Poet, and former teacher has been in this business for years. She shares her process for…
Brian Fanelli’s most recent book of poems is Waiting for the Dead to Speak (NYQ Books), winner of the 2017 Devil’s Kitchen Poetry Prize. He is…
This year’s Poetry Master Class leader is Christopher Bursk, the multiple-awarding winning author of eleven books, including “The Improbable Swervings of Atoms” which won the prestigious…
Dr. Kenneth Pobo is a rennaisance man. Well-versed in verse, peerless in prose, Kenneth teaches courses in literature and creative writing at Widener University, where he…
As a new semester approaches, I’m thinking again about how I will balance my work as writing teacher with my “real” work as a writer.…
Just before this year’s Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, I was reminded of experiences from my youth that helped to shape the poetry I have been writing most…