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UPCOMING READING SERIES EVENTS: Stephen Dobyns, Donald Ray Pollock
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Dobyns will deliver a reading of his poetry on Tuesday, April 14th, at 6:30 PM, in Remsen 101.
Furthermore, novelist Donald Ray Pollock will read from his work a week later, on April 21st, at 6:30 PM, in Kreiger 205.
Both events are free and open to the public. For more information about the readings and the authors, click here.
John Barth, Writing Seminars Professor Emeritus, to give reading
Tuesday, April 28, 6 PM (reception/book signing at 5 PM), Mason Hall
The Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries present acclaimed novelist John Barth, who will read from his latest book, The Development. Considered to be among the most important American writers of the 20th century, Barth is the much-honored author of such works as The Floating Opera (1956), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), and Chimera (1972, winner of the 1973 National Book Award). Barth attended Johns Hopkins as a writing major and earned his bachelor's degree in 1951 and his master's degree in 1952.
Free. Reservations suggested. Contact Stacie Spence at libraryfriends@jhu.edu or 410-516-7943.
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.
Wilkinson wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship
Congratulations to MFA alumna Caki Wilkinson, recipient of a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. The fellowship comes with a $15,000 prize. In 2007, she also took first prize in Atlantic Monthly's Student Poetry Contest. Wilkinson is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.
Viswanathan publishes first novel, The Toss of a Lemon
In September 2008, Harcourt released MFA alumna Padma Viswanathan's first book, The Toss of a Lemon. According to a Washington Post review, her novel "achieves something that is in many ways more nuanced than the broad brushstrokes of an epic: a meditation on fate's workings in a family dominated by the quiet rule of one woman — and the struggle of her son against the strictures of her belief." The Toss of a Lemon will be released in paperback on March 10, 2009.
Congratulations to Writing Seminars junior Lisa Rosinky, whose poem "Prismatics" appears in Iron Horse, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2009.
Lipkes Wins Prize: Congratulations to sophomore Writing Seminars major Celeste Lipkes on earning a national poetry prize. The 2009 Bellevue Literary Prize for Poetry, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye, means a $1000 award for Lipkes as well as publication of her winning poem, "Moon-face," in the Bellevue Literary Review. Lipkes' win of the Bellevue Prize follows an honorable mention for Writing Seminars M.F.A. candidate Joanna Pearson in 2007.
In 'Development,' John Barth shows why he's a master in the art of telling a story from The Baltimore Sun
Alumna Chimamanda Adichie receives "Genius" Grant
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Alice McDermott, "Tilling Her Green Literary Fields" from The Washington Post
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