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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Shannon Robinson, Senior Lecturer and Director of IFP, was awarded the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Honorable Mention for the 2023-2024 academic year. […]

John Barth, groundbreaking and prolific author, revered teacher, and professor emeritus in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died Tuesday. He was 93. Click here to read the full […]

Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 50 2024 USA Fellows, a group that includes six Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive an unrestricted cash award of $50,000, intended […]

Giovannai Garced-Rosa’s poem, a force is a push or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america), was featured on The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series.

Regan Green, MFA ’23, Alejandro Lucero, MFA ’25, and Sam Niven, MFA ’24, will have poems included in the Best New Poets Anthology after being selected from a large finalist […]