Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
Founded in 1947, the Writing Seminars is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States and has always been ranked highly in the field. The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Olakunle Ologunro (MFA ’24) has been awarded the 2025-2026 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Fiction at Colgate University. The O’Connor Fellowship is […]
The National Book Foundation and The New Yorker have announced the Longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry. Included among this year’s nominees is Stay Dead, the newest collection by […]
The 2025 shortlist for the Booker Prize, “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction,” has been announced––and among the finalists is Flashlight, the newest novel by […]