The Writing Seminars congratulates Professor Dora Malech whose poem “All the Stops” from The Southampton Review was chosen by Tracy K. Smith, guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021, to be included […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to share that Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson’s Pulitzer Center project, a series on the disparate impact of new policing tech in Black communities, has been named one […]

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Danielle Evans is one of three finalists for this year’s Story Prize. Her book, The Office of Historical Corrections, is a collection […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to share that Joanna Pearson of Carrboro, North Carolina is the 2021 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious […]

The Writing Seminars congratulates Michael Lavers, MFA ’10, the winner of the Bridport Prize poetry competition. Poetry enables Michael Lavers, winner of the £5000 Bridport Prize poetry competition to create […]

Assistant Professor Danielle Evans spoke with NPR about her new collection, The Office of Historical Corrections. The book circles around a fictional government office and a collection of stories dealing […]

Congratulations to Jalen Eutsey whose project was selected for a 2020 Rubys Artist Grant. The grant will support his poetry manuscript Morsel, a coming-of-age tale set in the artist’s hometown neighborhood of West […]

Congratulations to Benjamin Goldberg who was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology.

Congratulations to Armen Davoudian, winner of the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, selected by Patrick Donnelly! Read more about his manuscript, Swan Song, here.

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Samuel Cheney has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his poem “On the Footage of Monet Painting.” The poem will appear in […]