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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]