Read an interview with Colm Tóibín, who read from his ninth novel, The Testament of Mary, on April 3 as part of the JHU President’s Reading Series.
Irish Author Colm Tóibín Visits for the President’s Reading Series
News & Announcements Archive
Alumna Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a 2004 graduate of the Writing Seminars master’s program, was honored with a National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel Americanah.
Author Matthew Thomas on Alice McDermott
Matthew Thomas studied with Alice McDermott when he was a Writing Seminars student. When asked about McDermott for Baltimore Magazine’s March profile, he sent the following essay about her as an instructor, writer, and mentor.
Johns Hopkins Writers on Where Their Work Gets Done
The convenience of having one’s entire office in a machine as slim as a copy of ‘The Paris Review’ has not made moot the writer’s room.
Sheridan Libraries Acquire the John Barth Collection
Barth, a National Book Award winner, was a leading figure in the university’s Writing Seminars department, and his work is central to 20th-century literary history.
Alumna Wins Fiction Award
The Writing Seminars congratulates recent graduate Courtney Sender (MFA ’12) on winning Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open contest.
Alumni Publication News
We congratulate recent MFAs on their forthcoming and newly published books: Anne-Marie Thompson (Audiation) and Luc Phinney (Compass)
Isabel Wilkerson Kicks off the President’s Reading Series
Read about Isabel Wilkerson’s visit to campus as part of The President’s Reading Series: Literature of Social Import.
Alice McDermott on National Book Award Longlist for Fiction
The National Book Foundation today announced its longlist for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction, and the list of notable novelists includes our own Alice McDermott.
Alumna Paints Rich Picture of Immigrant Experience
In her novel Americanah, Chimamanda Adichie ’04 explores how we talk (and don’t talk) about race.