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Novel by Alice McDermott Finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle

January 22, 2018

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 Presents: A Lecture by Alex Ross – Wagner’s Shadow: Music, Literature, and the Birth of the Modern

November 29, 2017

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 6 p.m., Gilman 50 Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. He writes about classical music and has also contributed essays on literature, […]

Novels by Alice McDermott and Shanthi Sekaran Selected for the Top Ten Books of 2017 by Library Journal

November 22, 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. […]

Christopher Childers M.F.A. ’16 awarded NEA Literature Translation Fellowship

November 16, 2017

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 […]

Danielle Evans and Eric Puchner Selected for The Best American Short Stories 2017

October 3, 2017

The Writing Seminars is proud to announce that professors Danielle Evans and Eric Puchner both have stories appearing in The Best American Short Stories 2017, edited this year by Meg […]

President’s Reading Series Brings Notable Authors to Campus

September 14, 2017

The President’s Reading Series, which is supported by The Writing Seminars, kicks off with a visit from Salman Rushdie on Sept. 26. All the readings are free and open to […]

J.P. Grasser, M.F.A. ’14, and Richie Hofmann, M.F.A. ’14, Chosen as Wallace Stegner Fellows

June 21, 2017

Congratulations to Writing Seminars graduates J.P. Grasser and Richie Hofmann, both MFA graduates of 2014, on being chosen as 2017-2019 Wallace Stegner Fellows in Poetry. The Stegner program, which selects […]

The Writing Seminars Welcomes Assistant Professor Danielle Evans

May 12, 2017

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Danielle Evans will join the department as an Assistant Professor in fall 2018. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book […]

The Writing Seminars Welcomes Visiting Assistant Research Professor, Mark Lasswell

May 2, 2017

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Mark Lasswell will join the department as a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. He will teach a class in journalism and opinion for […]

Writing Seminars Undergraduates Admitted to Top MFA Programs

April 17, 2017

The faculty of the Writing Seminars proudly congratulate the following undergraduate Writing Seminars majors on having accepted offers of admission to MFA programs in Creative Writing, beginning Fall 2017: Madison […]

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