Writing Seminars chair, David Yezzi, has been awarded an Engaged Faculty Fellowship by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Social Concern. The Fellowship, which includes support for a graduate assistant, a $2,000 […]
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The Writing Seminars Welcomes Writer-in-Residence, Dinaw Mengestu
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Dinaw Mengestu will join the department as a Writer-in-Residence through the President’s Reading Series: Literature of Social Import in spring 2017. His […]
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“T.S. Eliot and Matters of Principle”: A Turnbull Lecture by Christopher Ricks
Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 6:00 p.m., Mudd 26. Christopher Ricks is William M. Warren and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston […]
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Jean McGarry Named Elliott Coleman Professor in The Writing Seminars
Jean McGarry was appointed to the Elliott Coleman Professor in The Writing Seminars. In 1947 Elliott Coleman founded the Hopkins Writing Seminars, which was only the second such program in the […]
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The Writing Seminars Presents: A Turnbull Lecture by Linda Gregerson
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:30 p.m., Gilman 50 Linda Gregerson is the author of five poetry collections: The Selvage (2012), Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her […]
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Canceled – The Writing Seminars Presents: Chaffee Visiting Writer Dan O’Brien Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
This event has been postponed indefinitely. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Helena Chung, Writing Seminars Junior, Awarded Fellowship to Seminar for Younger Poets at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry
Each year, the Seminar for Younger Poets awards ten fellowships (tuition, room & board) to undergraduate poets from around the country to participate in a 3-week program of workshops, readings, and […]
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Austin Allen , M.F.A. ’12, Wins the Eleventh Annual Anthony Hecht Prize
Austin Allen , M.F.A. ’12, has won the eleventh annual Anthony Hecht Prize for his book of poems, Pleasures of the Game, to be published by Waywiser Press. The international […]
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John Barth Loves Us: A Valentine to Fiction
Sunday, February 14 at 2 PM – 4 PM, George Peabody Library Join the Sheridan Libraries for a celebration of fiction, in conjunction with the exhibition “Lost & Found in […]
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Writing Seminars Graduate and Faculty Member Receive 2015 Rubys Artist Grants
Writing Seminars graduate Courtney Sender (MFA 2012) and faculty member James Arthur are among the nine Baltimore-area artists selected to receive 2015 Rubys Artist Project Grants in the amount of […]