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.

The Writing Seminars is proud to announce that Professor Alice McDermott’s latest novel, The Ninth Hour, is a National Book Critics Circle finalist for 2017.

The Writing Seminars is proud to announce that Professor Alice McDermott’s latest novel, The Ninth Hour, is one of Library Journal’s top ten books of the year. Shanthi Sekaran, M.A. ’03, was also selected for Lucky Boy. Join us on November 28th for a reading by Alice McDermott and fellow faculty member Katharine Noel.

Congratulations to Chris Childers, recent M.F.A. in poetry and instructor in The Writing Seminars, for a $12,500 award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the retranslation of Latin and Greek lyric poetry from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. in one comprehensive anthology. Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry from Archilochus […]