Amelia Morris (BA Writing Seminars 2003) has placed her first book, Bon Appetempt: A Coming of Age Story with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. Described by Kirkus Reviews as “a refreshing take on growing up and coming to terms with the joys and travails of family, career, and navigating the kitchen,” […]

Jesse Chen (Writing Seminars Junior) is one of five national finalists in the 2014 Norman Mailer College Poetry Writing Contest. The Mailer Contest, sponsored jointly by the Norman Mailer Center and The National Council of Teachers of English, was judged this year by Ronaldo Wilson and Quincy Troupe. Chen is currently a Woodrow Wilson Research […]

Writing Seminars faculty member Alice McDermott will read from her novel Someone at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday, September 27 at 1 pm. The reading, part of the Literary Salon series, will take place at the Baltimore Inner Harbor stage on Rash Field. Also presenting at the festival will be Writing Seminars faculty member […]

Amanda Gunn (MFA Writing Seminars 2015) has won the 2014 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for her poems “My Father Speaks,” “Raid at Combahee River, June 2, 1863,” and “Eastern Shore Ghazal.” Gunn will receive $1,000, publication in the Southern Humanities Review, and an invitation to read at the 2014 Auburn Writers Conference. Gunn’s poems have […]

Callie Siskel (MFA Writing Seminars 2013) has been chosen by Elizabeth Alexander for a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Siskel will receive a prize of $1,000 and her chapbook, Arctic Revival, will be published by the Poetry Society of America. Siskel’s poems have appeared in The Yale Review, 32 Poems, Passages North, and The New Criterion. She […]

Kristopher Jansma (BA Writing Seminars 2003) has been chosen as the 2014 winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, in recognition of his debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, published by Viking/Penguin in 2013. Competition judges described Jansma’s narrative voice as “fresh yet generous, with whiffs of Salinger and Kerouac,” and added, “Readers […]

Harvard Magazine profiles McGarry's fiction: Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Eric Puchner an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. This award honors exceptional accomplishment in any genre.

Retired Writing Seminars' professor, Stephen Dixon, won a 2014 O. Henry Award for his short story "Talk." Read the story in the Baltimore Sun.

Lisa Yoskowitz at Disney-Hyperion has bought world English rights to Rahul Kanakia's debut YA novel Enter Title Here, at auction.