JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYEST. 1876

America’s First Research University

Explore the Program

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Major in Writing

Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.

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Master of Fine Arts

Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.

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Faculty

The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.

Upcoming Events

Writing Seminars Presents: Dora Malech

Dora Malech's latest book of poetry is Trying × Trying, out from Carnegie Mellon University Press in October 2025. Previous collections include Flourish, Stet, Say So, and Shore Ordered Ocean; her poems appear in publications […]

News & Announcements

Susan Choi’s FLASHLIGHT Makes Booker Prize Shortlist

The 2025 shortlist for the Booker Prize, “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction,” has been announced––and among the finalists is Flashlight, the newest novel by […]

The Writing Seminars in Best American Poetry

This year’s volume of The Best American Poetry has hit the shelves, and the book is filled with Writing Seminars alumni, faculty, and friends. Among the poems selected for the […]

Susan Choi’s FLASHLIGHT nominated for National Book Award

The National Book Foundation and The New Yorker have announced the Longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. Included among this year’s nominees is Professor Susan Choi’s novel Flashlight. Professor […]