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Upcoming Readings
The 2008-9 academic year featured readings by many distinguished
writers, including Charles D'Ambrosio, Stephen Dobyns, Josephine
Humphries, Richard Kenney, Matthew Klam, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Richard Wilbur.
We're pleased to present another excellent lineup for 2009-2010. Readers for Fall 2009 will include Richard Katrovas and Elizabeth Spires (October 13), David Chan (November 5), and Brad Leithauser (December 1).
In Spring 2010, Paul Muldoon will deliver the Turnbull Poetry Lecture on February 9 and Gjertrud Schnackenberg will read as the Elder Sullivan Poet on April 20. More readings will be announced.
For information about additional readers, and the times and locations of readings, please check the Writing Seminars website throughout the fall.
Jeff Blitz (B.A., '90; M.A., ‘91) won the 2008-2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for an episode of the hit sitcom "The Office." For more information, click here.
We’re pleased to announce several recent and forthcoming publications by Writing Seminars faculty:
Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race, Wayne Biddle
Return Fire, Glenn Blake
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, Jessica Blau
The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser
A Phone Call to the Future, Mary Jo Salter
A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, Greg Williamson
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," a play by Writing Seminars senior Eric Levitz, will have its premiere at the Merrick Barn. Showtimes are November 13, 14, 20, and 21 at 8PM, and November 15 and 22 at 2PM. The play is the first ever by a JHU undergraduate to be presented by the Johns Hopkins University Theatre. Several Writing Seminars majors are in the cast, and the play is directed by Writing Sems professor and alum John Astin. Contact 410-516-5153 or jhut@jhu.edu for ticket information.
Joanna Pearson, who earned her Writing Seminars M.F.A. in poetry in 2009, and who is currently a student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has just signed with Arthur A. Levine Books for the Spring 2011 publication of her young adult novel The Anthropologist's Guide to High School.
Sally Adee, former undergrad Writing Sems major and an '07 graduate of the science writing grad program, won a 2009 National Press Club award, the Michael A. Dornheim Award, for “The Hunt for the Kill Switch” in IEEE Spectrum magazine.
Writings Seminars faculty Brad Leithauser and Mary Jo Salter, as well as alumna Erica Dawson, will be speakers at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar in honor of Richard Wilbur, who delivered the 2009 Turnbull Lecture.
Writing Seminars faculty member Ann Finkbeiner has won the 2008 AIP Science Writing Award in the Journalist Category for her book, The Jasons (Viking/Penguin, 2006). It profiles a secretive group of some of the country's smartest scientists who have met every summer for the last 45 years to work on mostly classified problems for the U.S. government.
The Writing Seminars congratulates Jason Gray (M.A., ‘01) for winning the 2008 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and Carrie Jerrell (M.A. ‘04) for winning the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, both of which include the publication of a first book.
Congratulations to current M.F.A. candidate Anne-Marie Thompson (M.F.A. ’10) for winning the 2008 Beulah Rose Prize for Poetry sponsored by Smartish Pace.
Writing Seminars alumna Chimamanda Adichie (M.A. ‘04) is a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.
This new literary journal, the rebirth of a short-lived review from the mid twentieth century, publishes the finest in contemporary letters. Featuring fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays on literature, drama, film, the visual arts, music, and dance, The Hopkins Review has been called a "postmodern blend of intellectual heft and Vaudeville" by Susan McCallum-Smith of WYPR and Urbanite magazine.
