Four authors and a literary agent participate in a panel discussion about finding and working with an agent.

Anthology editors talk about the Golden Shovel form, the process of making this special anthology, and the far-reaching influence of Gwendolyn Brooks.

Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jennifer Lin discusses her new family memoir, Shanghai Faithful, with Dick Polman.

Artists introduce an installation of sound, maps, surveys, and ephemera from the quantum time capsule of Community Futures Lab, a pop-up oral history/oral futures recording lab, community resource library, workshop space, and gallery located in North Philadelphia exploring eminent futures and temporal domains of housing and displacement.

Anthony DeCurtis talks with Duncan Shiek, a Grammy and Tony Award-winning artist who launched his musical career in 1996 with his self-titled debut album.

Brooke O'Harra of Penn's Faculty Theatre Arts talks with Madeleine George, whose play Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England will run at the Annenberg Center for The Arts April 5-8. George is the Theatre Arts Program’s Visiting Artist this Spring.

The Writers House celebrates the Adroit Journal, founded in November 2010 by poet and Penn student Peter LaBerge. At its foundation, the journal has its eyes focused ahead, seeking to showcase what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the future of poetry, prose, and art.

Three winners of the Creative Venture Prize present their projects involving exploring Cuban lullabies, punk music and Barrow, Alaska.

Fatemeh Shams and Dick Davis discuss translated Persian literary work, in a program co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Middle East Center.

The Writers House hosts its monthly Speakeasy Open Mic Night, where community members can share their work.