Writing Seminars faculty member Dora Malech 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, […]
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Sir Andrew Motion joins The Writing Seminars
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Sir Andrew Motion will join the department as a Homewood Professor of the Arts in July 2015. Poet Laureate of the United […]
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Eric Puchner Wins Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize
Eric Puchner, Assistant Professor in the Writing Seminars, has won the 2015 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize, a $25,000 annual prize given to “a young writer of proven excellence in […]
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Writing Seminars Faculty Honored in 2015 Poets’ Prize Competition
Mary Jo Salter, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Writing Seminars, has received the $3,000 Poets’ Prize for her book Nothing by Design, published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. David Yezzi, […]
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Writing Seminars Graduate Matt Morton Wins the Wabash Prize for Poetry
Matt Morton (MFA Writing Seminars 2014) has been chosen by Bob Hicok as the winner of the 2014 Wabash Prize for Poetry for his poem “Windfall.” Of “Windfall,” Hicok writes, […]
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Forthcoming Book by Writing Seminars Graduate Amelia Morris
Amelia Morris (BA Writing Seminars 2003) has placed her first book, Bon Appetempt: A Coming of Age Story with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. Described by […]
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Writing Seminars Faculty, Students, and Graduates to Appear at the Baltimore Book Festival
Writing Seminars faculty member Alice McDermott will read from her novel Someone at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday, September 27 at 1 pm. The reading, part of the Literary […]
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Amanda Gunn, Current MFA Student, Wins Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
Amanda Gunn (MFA Writing Seminars 2015) has won the 2014 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for her poems “My Father Speaks,” “Raid at Combahee River, June 2, 1863,” and “Eastern Shore […]
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Callie Siskel, Writing Seminars Graduate, Wins Poetry Society of America Chapbook Competition
Callie Siskel (MFA Writing Seminars 2013) has been chosen by Elizabeth Alexander for a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Siskel will receive a prize of $1,000 and her […]
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Kristopher Jansma, Writing Seminars Graduate, Wins Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award
Kristopher Jansma (BA Writing Seminars 2003) has been chosen as the 2014 winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, in recognition of his debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of […]