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 […]

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 the Winter 2020 issue of Pleiades.  Aleyna Rentz is a fiction writer from rural Southwest Georgia, where she grew up with her six brothers and […]