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 […]
The President’s Reading Series, which is supported by The Writing Seminars, kicks off with a visit from Salman Rushdie on Sept. 26. All the readings are free and open to […]
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 […]
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Danielle Evans will join the department as an Assistant Professor in fall 2018. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book […]
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Mark Lasswell will join the department as a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. He will teach a class in journalism and opinion for […]
The faculty of the Writing Seminars proudly congratulate the following undergraduate Writing Seminars majors on having accepted offers of admission to MFA programs in Creative Writing, beginning Fall 2017: Madison […]
Katherine Robinson, M.F.A ’12, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a research PhD in English at Cambridge University. Endowed by Bill and Melinda Gates, the Gates Scholarship enables […]
Congratulations to Writing Seminars graduate Matt Morton (MFA 2014) on being chosen as a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Morton is one of 37 fellows chosen […]