Johns Hopkins senior Tal Bruno, a Writing Seminars major and defensive midfielder for the Hopkins men’s lacrosse team, earned a new moniker this past weekend: hero.

Congratulations to Morgan Ome, whose poem “Phosphenes” won the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award. The Spencer Award is given annually by the West Chester University Poetry Center to an undergraduate writer for a poem composed in meter, rhyme and received form. Ome is now a junior at Johns Hopkins, double majoring in Writing Seminars and […]

Professor Dora Malech was recognized as one of the 2018 Diversity Recognition Award Winners. She has created successful and ongoing partnerships with Baltimore schools between the Writing Seminars program and Writers in Baltimore schools by diversifying the curriculum and syllabus offerings to include writers of color and addressing issues of equity and inclusion. For her students, Dora […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Aleyna Rentz, MFA ’19, won third place in Glimmer Train’s January/February New Writers Award for her short story “Con Affeto.” Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net; it has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Fifth Wednesday, Passages North, Wigleaf, Blue […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Samuel Cheney, MFA ’19, has been awarded an MFA Scholarship in Poetry to the 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference.  The conference, in its 29th session, gathers a distinguished faculty to provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in poetry, fiction, and playwriting.

The Writing Seminars is delighted to announce that Mary Terrier, MFA 2017, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Terrier is a native of Austin, Texas. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, and The Austin Chronicle.

Congratulations to Kanak Gupta whose poem, “Death in Dubai” won the 2018 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest. There were 236 poems submitted to the 2018 Poetry Contest, representing 70 cities and towns and 19 counties in Maryland (18 counties plus Baltimore City). You can hear Kanak read her winning poem at 4 p.m. […]

Armen Davoudian is a PhD candidate at Stanford University. His dissertation, “No Single Poem: The Poetry Volume in the 20th Century,” focuses on how the poetry book is both a form and a genre, and how in the 20th century it has come to absorb some of the ambitions traditionally exercised in the form of […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Michael Broida, MFA 2018, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach in Portugal. The project so awarded comprises the teaching of English conversation with the aim of discussing American culture with Portuguese university students and community organizers.