News & Announcements Archive

Danielle Alyse Basford Writing Prize Open to Graduating Seniors in The Writing Seminars

Danielle Alyse Basford Writing Prize Open to Graduating Seniors in The Writing Seminars

We are pleased to announce the 6th year of the Danielle Alyse Basford Writing Prize, a $1,000 award for a short story by a graduating senior in The Writing Seminars. […]

Revised Undergraduate Handbook Now Available

Revised Undergraduate Handbook Now Available

The Writing Seminars has updated its Undergraduate Handbook. For a summary of our requirements for the major within and outside the department, please see the requirements page.

Stephen Dixon, longtime Writing Seminars professor and master of fiction writing, dies at 83

Stephen Dixon, longtime Writing Seminars professor and master of fiction writing, dies at 83

Please click to view the Washington Post obituary. A tribute from Professor Jean McGarry: It’s hard to believe such a force of nature as Steve Dixon could be gone.  His […]

Rachael Uwada Clifford, MFA ’18, and J.P. Grasser, MFA ’14, Selected for the 2019 Best New Poets Anthology

Rachael Uwada Clifford, MFA ’18,  and J.P. Grasser, MFA ’14, Selected for the 2019 Best New Poets Anthology

Congratulations to Writing Seminars alumni Rachael Uwada Clifford and J.P. Grasser, both MFA graduates, on being selected for the 2019 Best New Poets anthology.

JHU Press Publishes Hastings Hensel’s (M.F.A. 2009) Third Book of Poetry

JHU Press Publishes Hastings Hensel’s (M.F.A. 2009) Third Book of Poetry

Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel’s Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language’s limits and its necessity, as well […]

Rachael Uwada Clifford, M.F.A. ‘ 18, Wins First Place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers

Rachael Uwada Clifford, M.F.A. ‘ 18, Wins First Place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Clifford has won first place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers for her story, “What the Year Will […]

Joanna Pearson, M.F.A. ’09, Publishes Third Book in Third Genre

Joanna Pearson, M.F.A. ’09, Publishes Third Book in Third Genre

Dr. Joanna Pearson, a psychiatrist with two Johns Hopkins degrees, a 2009 M.F.A. in poetry and a 2010 M.D., has had her third book, Every Human Love, a collection of short stories, published […]

Sydney Doyle, M.F.A ’18, and Armen Davoudian, M.F.A. ’19, Awarded Tennessee Williams Scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Sydney Doyle, M.F.A ’18, and Armen Davoudian, M.F.A. ’19, Awarded Tennessee Williams Scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Sydney Doyle and Armen Davoudian have received Tennessee Williams Scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In the spirit of Sewanee’s literary community, […]

Aleyna Rentz, M.F.A. ’19, Wins First Place in the Pleiades Realistic Fiction Contest

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Aleyna Rentz has won the R.M. Kinder Award for Realistic Fiction for her story, “Cottonmouth”. She will receive $1,000 and publication in […]

Rachael Clifford, M.F.A. ‘ 18, Awarded Cave Canem Fellowship, Residency at the Mastheads, and Artist Award from Maryland State Arts Council

Rachael Clifford, M.F.A. ‘ 18, Awarded Cave Canem Fellowship, Residency at the Mastheads, and Artist Award from Maryland State Arts Council

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Clifford was awarded a Cave Canem Fellowship.  In addition, she was selected as a 2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Mastheads in Pittsfield, […]