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 Swallow.” She will receive $2,500. Rachael Uwada Clifford is a writer and poet living in Baltimore. The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, she was born in […]

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 with Acre Press.  Pearson is also the author of a young adult novel, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, and the Donald Justice Prize-winning […]

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, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has offered workshops in fiction, poetry, and playwriting since its first gathering in 1990. Today, the Conference is one of the […]