Professor Susan Choi’s new novel Flashlight is among the 13 books nominated for this year’s Booker Prize. As reported by the New York Times, the Booker Prize “is one of […]

Writers in Baltimore Schools brings together Johns Hopkins undergraduates and Baltimore City students of all ages in creative practice and fellowship. [Hub]

The Hopkins Review has been named among the short list of finalists for the 2025 Firecracker Awards granted by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, in the “Magazines – […]

“Flashlight,” by Professor Susan Choi, spans several decades and nations to tell a story of exile in its multiple forms. [The New York Times]

Associate Professor Lysley Tenorio is one of six Baltimore-area artists to win a 2025 Baker Artist Award. The Baker Artist Awards were established by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund and […]

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Giovannai Rosa, MFA ’25, has been named a 2025 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry by The Adroit Journal. Adroit recognizes six emerging […]

The Hopkins Review is one of only three journals selected by a panel of jurors for the international Association of University Presses 2025 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, highlighting the magazine’s […]

Professor David Yezzi has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. From the Guggenheim Foundation’s announcement: “The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their appointment of […]

It’s been a good few weeks for the Writing Seminars in the pages of The New Yorker. This week’s issue includes “Cirrus,” a new poem by alumna Rosanna Warren from […]

Associate Teaching Professor Shannon Robinson has been named on the Longlist for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards. Her book The Ill-Fitting Skin is up for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham […]