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.
Lambda Literary has announced that Emet North (MFA ’20) has won the 2025 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. The award, given to two writers annually, “recognizes […]
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins and Deep Vellum are proud to partner in bringing the world’s greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres. Beginning in […]
Poet and Writing Seminars alum Dolapo Demuren (BA ’15) is one of two winners of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. His winning manuscript, American Love Sonnets, was […]