Congratulations to Morgan Ome, whose poem “Phosphenes” won the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award. The Spencer Award is given annually by the West Chester University Poetry Center to an undergraduate […]
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Tristan Davies Wins Crenson-Hertz Award for Community-Based Learning and Participatory Research
Tristan Davies was selected as this year’s winner of the Crenson-Hertz Award for Community-Based Learning and Participatory Research by the Center for Social Concern (CSC) and the Community-Based Learning staff. The […]
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Dora Malech Among 2018 Diversity Recognition Award Winners
Professor Dora Malech was recognized as one of the 2018 Diversity Recognition Award Winners. She has created successful and ongoing partnerships with Baltimore schools between the Writing Seminars program and Writers in […]
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Aleyna Rentz, MFA ’19, Wins Third Place in Glimmer Train’s January/February New Writers Award
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Aleyna Rentz, MFA ’19, won third place in Glimmer Train’s January/February New Writers Award for her short story “Con Affeto.” Her work has been […]
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Samuel Cheney, MFA ’19, Awarded an MFA Scholarship in Poetry to the 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Samuel Cheney, MFA ’19, has been awarded an MFA Scholarship in Poetry to the 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The conference, in its […]
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Kanak Gupta, Writing Seminars Sophomore, Wins 2018 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest
Congratulations to Kanak Gupta whose poem, “Death in Dubai” won the 2018 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest. There were 236 poems submitted to the 2018 Poetry Contest, representing […]
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Armen Davoudian, MFA ’19, Wins 2018 ALSCW Dissertation Fellowship
Armen Davoudian is a PhD candidate at Stanford University. His dissertation, “No Single Poem: The Poetry Volume in the 20th Century,” focuses on how the poetry book is both a […]
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Michael Broida, MFA ’18, awarded Fulbright grant
The Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that Michael Broida, MFA 2018, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach in Portugal. The project so awarded comprises the teaching of English […]
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Novel by Alice McDermott Finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle
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.
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The Writing Seminars Presents: A Lecture by Alex Ross – Wagner’s Shadow: Music, Literature, and the Birth of the Modern
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, […]