International Poetry Forum
The International Poetry Forum offers The Poets-in-Public series, which features established poets reading their works in public, and The Poets-in-Person program, an educational outreach program bringing poetry to students of various ages.

Pennsylvania Center for the Book
The official Pennsylvania affiliate for the Library of Congress's Center for the Book, the PCB is located at Penn State University. Their current project is developing a website, and on March 1, 2003, they released Phase I of the online Literary Map of Pennsylvania and the Family Literacy Activity Guide, "Playing with Words," for everyone who works with preschool children and their families.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The PCA supports artists throughout the state with a grants and awards program, an Arts In Education Roster, workshops on preparing grant applications, advice and consultation, and publications that are available on request. The PCA participates in PennPAT, a program to support presenters in presenting eligible Pennsylvania-based performing artists. PennPAT also publishes a roster of all performing artists funded through the program.

Pennsylvania Poetry Society
Founded in 1949, the PPS assists its members in the development of their craft and fosters an intelligent appreciation of poetry. PPS publishes a newsletter, distributes STROPHS (newsletter of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies), publishes a book each year of prize winning poems, and holds an annual convention every June.

University of Pennsylvania
Offers writing workshops every semester in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as those in screenwriting, playwriting, journalism, writing for children, and review. The program also invites visiting writers to our campus for readings and talks, and each spring, the creative writing program sponsors university-wide writing contests in several categories: poetry, fiction, review, scriptwriting, and translation. Faculty includes Charles Bernstein and Bob Perelman.

Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon's Creative Writing program is one of the oldest undergraduate programs in the country, and one of the few offering a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing degree. In 2007, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the program by inviting distinguished alumni to return to campus to read their work and meet with current students. Creative writing students develop their talents in writing fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and nonfiction.

Chatham University
Chatham University has two MFA programs in Creative Writing; one is a full-residency program, and the other is low-residency. Chatham hosts an MFA focusing on nature, environment and travel writing, that is the premier graduate program for nurturing creative writers interested in the environmental imagination and place-based writing. The program is inspired by the work of Chatham alumna, Rachel Carson, a creative writer whose work demonstrates both lyricism and social conscience.

Mansfield University
Students pursuing the English curriculum receive training in literary analysis and are offered a broad background in the history of English and American literature and language. The Department of English and Modern Languages offers a 15-credit minor in Creative Writing.

Penn State University
The MFA Program in Creative Writing at Penn State offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. The MFA degree is a two-year studio/research program of intimate size and attention, comprising a student-to-faculty ratio of approximately 2:1. Beyond course work and teaching, students benefit from a vibrant array of reading series, literary events and conversations with visiting writers.

Temple MA degree in English/Creative Writing
The writing component features a combination of small, intensive workshops in poetry and fiction, supplemented by one-on-one tutorials with faculty. The student can engage with the historical and formal study of the genres of poetry and fiction by choosing from a selection of graduate courses in English and American literatures, as well as courses that feature critical theory. Temple hosts the Poets & Writers series, a well-respected institution on the Philadelphia cultural scene, consistently inviting some of the most exciting and innovative contemporary writers to present their work. In addition, the Program invites a distinguished novelist and poet for one week each in the fall and spring semesters who read student manuscripts, give both a public lecture on their poetics and a reading, attend the relevant graduate workshops, and mingle with the students.

Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets
Hosted by Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry, the Seminar provides four weeks of study each June with established poets for undergraduates. Approximately 8 fellowships are provided each year, with tuition, room, and board included.

Gist Street Reading Series
The Gist Street readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers either publishing in national journals and magazines or publishing their first or second books.

Ligonier Valley Writers Conference
Offering seminars and workshops for writers of all levels, this three-day, weekend conference occurs every year in mid-July.

Pages and Places Book Festival
Pages & Places, Scranton's inaugural book festival, brings to the city’s downtown 30 writers, scholars, and editors, nearly all of them bearing significant national reputations. The mission is to to promote books, reading, writing, and literacy. Panels may address topics such as movements in contemporary poetry, independent publishing, and urban livability and economic development.

The American Poetry Review
Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, APR quickly became one of the most widely circulated poetry magazines. It has included the work of over 1,500 writers, among whom are nine Nobel Prize laureates and thirty-three Pulitzer Prize winners.

Autumn House Press
Autumn House Press was launched in 1998 when prominent American publishers dramatically reduced their poetry lists and important contemporary poets were left struggling to find publishers. Small presses, such as Autumn House, are now publishing some of the most important poetry in America.

The Fourth River
The Fourth River is a journal interested in literature that engages and explores the relationship between humans and their environments, be it downriver, down-home, or down on the farm, downwind or down-to earth. In short, writing that is thoughtful and daring and richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity.

Brilliant Corners
The only national journal to focus on jazz-related literature. It has published a range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Hayden Carruth, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Jayne Cortez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, William Matthews, and Al Young.

Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publishes contemporary poetry, a Poets on Prose series, and a Classic Contemporaries Series. The latter reissues significant out-of-print books by American poets such as Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, James Tate, Stephen Dobyns, Carol Muske, Amy Gerstler, Larry Levis, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.

The Gettysburg Review
Published by Gettysburg College, the Gettysburg Review made its debut in 1988. More than seventy short stories, poems, and essays first published in the journal have appeared in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, or have been reprinted in publications such as Harper's.

Painted Bride Quarterly
Painted Bride Quarterly is published online by Drexel University. It features poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, and an online store.

University of Pittsburgh Press
Founded in 1936 with funding from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, the Buhl Foundation, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. The Press publishes books in several academic areas and in poetry and short fiction, while maintaining a commitment to publishing books about Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania for general readers, scholars, and students. Special poetry series include the Pitt Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

West Branch
Published by The Stadler Center for Poetry, West Branch is a biannual magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, published with the assistance of Bucknell University, the Bucknell Alumni Association for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.