The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Richie Hofmann, MFA ’14, is one of 35 writers selected to receive a 2025 Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000. This year’s […]
Celebrating the Life, Literature, & Legacy of John Barth
Celebrating & Honoring the Life, Literature, and Legacy of John Barth Memorial & Brunch Sunday, April 6, 2025 (Johns Hopkins University Alumni Weekend) 10 am – 12 pm Mason Hall […]
Olakunle Ologunro, MFA ’24, Receives Elizabeth George Foundation Grant
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Olakunle Ologunro, MFA ’24, has been awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2025. The grant will support the completion of a […]
Joyce Carol Oates Prize longlist includes alumni Jami Attenberg and Porochista Khakpour
Writing Seminars alumni Jami Attenberg and Porochista Khakpour have been longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize by New Literary Project (NewLit). The annual $50,000 award honors “a mid-career author […]
History Through Poetry
A new exhibition at the Homewood Museum features the work of students in Prof. Dora Malech’s First-Year Seminar course, “Bringing the Past to Life with Poetry.” The class, a collaboration […]
Louise Erdrich, MA ’79, on the Today Show
The Mighty Red, the newest novel by Louise Erdrich (MA ’79), was selected as the Today show’s October book club pick. Erdrich appeared on the program to answer questions from […]
Six MFA Poets Selected for The Best American Poetry 2024
The poems of six graduates of the Writing Seminars’ MFA program have been included in this year’s volume of The Best American Poetry. Poems by Christopher Childers, Armen Davoudian, Gabriella […]
Fulbright Grants Awarded to Two Writing Seminars Alumni
Recent Writing Seminars graduates Gabriella Fee (MFA ’22) and Sophia Berkey (BA ’24) have been awarded 2024 Fulbright grants. Fee has won a Study/Research Award to Italy, where she’ll spend […]
Taylor Koekkoek, MFA ’15, Wins American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
Writing Seminars graduate Taylor Koekkoek (MFA ’15) has been awarded the 2024 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for his debut story […]
Mary Robison, MA ’77, interviewed for the Paris Review’s Writers at Work series
In a career-spanning interview with The Paris Review, novelist and story writer Mary Robison (MA ’77) discusses her fiction, her cohort of era-defining, so-called “minimalists,” and her years at the […]