Congratulations to Benjamin Goldberg who was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology.
Benjamin Goldberg, MFA ’16, included in Best New Poets anthology
News & Announcements Archive
Armen Davoudian, MFA ’19, wins 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition
Congratulations to Armen Davoudian, winner of the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, selected by Patrick Donnelly! Read more about his manuscript, Swan Song, here.
Samuel Cheney, MFA ’19, Wins Pushcart Prize
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Samuel Cheney has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his poem “On the Footage of Monet Painting.” The poem will appear in […]
MFA Alumni, Grasser and Wahmanholm, Win Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize
Huge congratulations to Writing Sems alumni J.P. Grasser (MFA ‘14) and Claire Wahmanholm (MFA ‘11), 1st and 2nd place winners of The Academy of American Poets first-ever Treehouse Climate Action Poem […]
The Writing Seminars Announces 2020 Student Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2020 Student Award Winners!
J.P. Grasser, MFA ’14, Wins Frontier Poetry’s 2019 OPEN
Congratulations to Writing Seminars alumnus, J.P. Grasser, for winning the $5000 prize in Frontier Poetry’s 2019 OPEN. JP’s poem will be published on April 1st.
Danielle Evans Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Danielle Evans has been awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship in prose by the National Endowment for the Arts. The work Evans submitted […]
Mary Terrier, M.F.A. ’17, Receives Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Mary Terrier has won an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020. The grant will support the completion of a novel and a […]
Rachael Uwada Clifford, M.F.A. ’18, Receives Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Uwada Clifford has won an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020. The $31,500 grant will support the completion of Clifford’s first […]
John T. Irwin, longtime Writing Seminars professor dies at 79
John T. Irwin, poet and literary critic, and longtime chair and Decker Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died Thursday, 20 December 2019, after a long illness. […]