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What’s Your Style? This Penn Alum Fashionista will help you figure it out!

Add one more to our Penn alumni fashionista list! Freelance fashion writer Alexis Brunswick (C’04, Kelly Writers House, Student Writing Advisor) started a blog on style for young women called “Fits of Fashion“. Her work regularly appears on Style.com and has appeared on WMagazine.com and VanityFair.com.  She began working in NY at Conde Nast and now […]

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Penn now allows you to minor in journalism

Since I’ve graduated, thanks to the great leadership of Al Filreis, Penn keeps on beefing up it’s creative writing program and offering students a variety of courses that help prepare students for real life careers. More about Penn’s new “journalism” minor after the jump! DT stories on Penn alumni journalists HERE >Students who wish to minor […]

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This Penn Alum Directed a Groundbreaking Episode of TV

Did you see last week’s episode of “Ugly Betty”?  If you didn’t, it was packed full of Penn! As I was watching the credits, I noted that not only was Penn alum actress Becki Newton (C’00) featured but also Penn alum Andy Wolk (C’70, DP, 34th Street) directed this episode!  …Then just last night Debbie […]

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How Penn Is Going Virtual Within “Second Life”!

Here’s a fun new way Penn and its programs continue to advance… This Thursday, October 29, (8 pm eastern time), Penn’s Kelly Writers House goes virtual …inside “Second Life”! For this week’s seminar, KWH director Al Filreis will be discussing three poems, one each by Cid Corman, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Check out […]

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Her Website Gives Aspiring Actors A Chance For Their Big Hollywood Break

Here’s a gem for our “Penn Performers“ week… Wanna win a trip to LA and meet with a Hollywood casting director, talent agent and headshot photographer?  Thanks to a Penn alum, the chance is now yours! Last spring, I posted about how Lindsey Rosin (C’07, The Excelano Project, The Writers House, Kappa Alpha Theta) joined […]

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He’s Not So Hot For Teacher

What if you met a former teacher and found out he was a total jerk? John Carroll (C’05, 34th Street Magazine section editor, Kelly Writers House writing advisor) examines this concept for us in a short story of his that recently got published. John went to Penn hoping to write for the Daily Pennsylvanian and […]

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