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 […]
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Deep Vellum partnership creates new literary translations
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 […]
Dolapo Demuren Wins 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship
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 […]
Olakunle Ologunro, MFA ’24, Receives O’Connor Fellowship
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 […]
Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD nominated for National Book Award and T.S. Eliot Prize
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 […]
Susan Choi’s FLASHLIGHT Makes Booker Prize Shortlist
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 […]
The Writing Seminars in Best American Poetry
This year’s volume of The Best American Poetry has hit the shelves, and the book is filled with Writing Seminars alumni, faculty, and friends. Among the poems selected for the […]
Susan Choi’s FLASHLIGHT nominated for National Book Award
The National Book Foundation and The New Yorker have announced the Longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. Included among this year’s nominees is Professor Susan Choi’s novel Flashlight. Professor […]
Christopher Childers Wins Frost Farm Prize
Poet and translator Christopher Childers (MFA ’16) has won the 2025 Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry, for his poem “Lalage.” The annual prize is awarded by the Trustees of […]
Gabriella Fee is Inaugural Moser Family Writer in Residence
Launching in Fall 2025, the Moser Family Writer in Residence initiative brings a renewed emphasis on the literary arts through online courses, engaging lectures, and immersive, place-based experiences. [Odyssey] We’re thrilled to […]