The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Clifford has won first place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers for her story, “What the Year Will […]

Dr. Joanna Pearson, a psychiatrist with two Johns Hopkins degrees, a 2009 M.F.A. in poetry and a 2010 M.D., has had her third book, Every Human Love, a collection of short stories, published […]

The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Sydney Doyle and Armen Davoudian have received Tennessee Williams Scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In the spirit of Sewanee’s literary community, […]

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Rachael Clifford was awarded a Cave Canem Fellowship.  In addition, she was selected as a 2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Mastheads in Pittsfield, […]

The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Samuel Cheney and Jalen Eutsey received scholarships to attend the Summer Workshop Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Jalen […]

Fred Armisen guesses the plot of Brad Leithauser’s The Promise of Elsewhere using only the book’s cover.

Congratulations to Writing Seminars graduate Matt Morton (MFA 2014) on winning the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  His manuscript will be published by BOA Editions. Matt Morton holds a BA […]

Novelist Alice McDermott has been awarded the Prix Femina, France’s award for the best foreign novel of the year. McDermott, a professor in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, was recognized for her book The Ninth […]

The University of Tampa Press is pleased to announce that poet Michael Lavers, of Provo, Utah, has won the seventeenth annual Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for his collection of […]