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News & Announcements Archive
J.P. Grasser, MFA ’14, Wins Frontier Poetry’s 2019 OPEN
Congratulations to Writing Seminars alumnus, J.P. Grasser, for winning the $5000 prize in Frontier Poetry’s 2019 OPEN. JP’s poem will be published on April 1st.
Danielle Evans Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Danielle Evans has been awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship in prose by the National Endowment for the Arts. The work Evans submitted […]
Mary Terrier, M.F.A. ’17, Receives Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Mary Terrier has won an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020. The grant will support the completion of a novel and a […]
Rachael Uwada Clifford, M.F.A. ’18, Receives Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Uwada Clifford has won an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2020. The $31,500 grant will support the completion of Clifford’s first […]
John T. Irwin, longtime Writing Seminars professor dies at 79
John T. Irwin, poet and literary critic, and longtime chair and Decker Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died Thursday, 20 December 2019, after a long illness. […]
Danielle Alyse Basford Writing Prize Open to Graduating Seniors in The Writing Seminars
We are pleased to announce the 6th year of the Danielle Alyse Basford Writing Prize, a $1,000 award for a short story by a graduating senior in The Writing Seminars. […]
Revised Undergraduate Handbook Now Available
The Writing Seminars has updated its Undergraduate Handbook. For a summary of our requirements for the major within and outside the department, please see the requirements page.
Stephen Dixon, longtime Writing Seminars professor and master of fiction writing, dies at 83
Please click to view the Washington Post obituary. A tribute from Professor Jean McGarry: It’s hard to believe such a force of nature as Steve Dixon could be gone. His […]
JHU Press Publishes Hastings Hensel’s (M.F.A. 2009) Third Book of Poetry
Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel’s Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language’s limits and its necessity, as well […]