Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. In this workshop, we’ll use a series of poetic forms to explore opposites, contradictions, redaction, and the complexity of our stories. Using antonym poems, the Golden Shovel, and blackout poetry, we’ll experiment with communicating the multiple facets of our truths and our stories, and make space for what's between the lines. 

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Won’t you be my neighbor? Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, 3509 Spring Garden St, from 4:30pm - 6:00pm, for our first Second Tuesday of 2025. We are excited to partner with the Undergraduate Student Government Association, in connection to their project “How to Be A Good Neighbor.”  In this writing workshop, we will explore neighbors — our memories of and with them, things unsaid, and creative recipes for how to be (or become) a good neighbor.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships.

In Chinese culture, the winter solstice is celebrated with the traditional Dōngzhì Festival to mark winter’s arrival. Observed on the longest night of the year, Dōngzhì is a turning point—every day after means more light. The festival’s philosophy is associated with the I-Ching hexagram fu, “Returning.”  This is the return of positive yang energy after a period of darkness.

For the last Second Tuesday workshop of 2024, we’ll write with this sense of return in mind as we take stock of what we need to reconcile with ourselves in order to make space to create something new as the solstice approaches.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. This month we will celebrate 10 years of the Dornsife Center (and Writers Room!) with a workshop facilitated by Teaching Artist Lauren Lowe.

We’ll look back and reflect on the transformations of the last decade, noting the changes we’ve witnessed in ourselves, our neighbors, and our communities. By looking to the past, we’ll see what that tells us about where we’re going—together.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Our annual back-to-school night! Join us as we kick off the 2024-2025 season with our first monthly workshop of the year. Greet old friends, meet new ones, and help us sketch out what’s ahead for Year 11 at Writers Room.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our November Second Tuesday workshop with Brent White and Drexel’s Jazztet.

We got earplugs, we got pens, and we got paper... so bring your ears and hearts and join us for live music at November's Second Tuesday: listening and writing with Drexel Jazztet and Kiki Kaschock. It's gonna be live, loud, and right in our living room.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Our annual back-to-school night. Join us as we kick off the 2023-2024 season with our first monthly workshop of the year. Greet old friends, meet new ones, and help us sketch out what’s ahead for Year 10 at Writers Room.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.