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Six ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College faculty members have been named 2025 Whiting fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, which provides funding for travel that will deepen and expand their teaching and curriculum development.
Andrea Lara '26 studies Biology, Latin American Studies (Spanish), and Creative Writing at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø. Following her education and writing internship at Uptown Stories, Lara was offered a part-time position as development assistant for the arts organization.
Exhibition offers visitors the rare opportunity to interact with Arion Press fine edition artist books at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum May 8–October 31, 2025.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College alumni and faculty members are publishing novels, memoirs, short story collections, non-fiction books, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this spring.
Nine students from high schools around the country and the world were selected as winners of ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s 2024-2025 Young Writers Awards.
Faculty member Mariam Rahmani’s fiction debut, Liquid: A Love Story, has garnered significant attention as a Book of the Month Club selection, one of Oprah Daily’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, and as an excerpt in New York Magazine.
In celebration of Black History Month, ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College is compiling a spotlight of the community's favorite Black authors and favorite books by Black authors.
Elizabeth Richter Zimmer '66 is a freelance writer who has worked in numerous print and digital spheres throughout her career. She shared how her ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø education prepared her for working in and writing for arts spaces and offers her advice to current ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø students.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College is pleased to announce it has been recommended for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The award will help fund the production of a literary journal housed at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College.
Amanda Spooner Eppers '92 is the director of alumni and special events at Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, MA. She shared how her ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø education and Field Work Term experiences inspired a love of working in an educational setting.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College alumni are publishing novels, memoirs, short story, non-fiction, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this winter.
Students present at the first International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference in New York.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College is the only college Michael Pollan ’76 applied to. Pollan’s mother had attended ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø in the fifties, and he remembered reading through her college papers, which were kept in the attic of his childhood home, and thinking about how extraordinary it was to have been taught, as she was, by poet Howard Nemerov and literary critic Kenneth Burke.
More than 100 people attended the Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture in Tishman Auditorium on ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s campus on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. They joined panelists Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown, the MacArthur Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem ’86, celebrated poet Camille Rankine, and moderator and ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty member Benjamin Anastas to learn about the life and work of Queer Black poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd ’88, an underrecognized member of the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø literary community in the eighties. Below is a piece Lethem wrote for and read at the event.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College alumni are publishing novels, memoirs, non-fiction, poetry, and photography books. Check out the round up below to learn who is publishing, winning awards, and appearing in paperback this fall.
Poetry at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College for public readings and close work with students, has announced its Fall 2024 lineup of featured poets. All Poetry at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø events are free and open to the public. They take place in various locations on the College’s campus.
This fall, ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College welcomes two new faculty members: Alex Creighton, who teaches Critical Writing, and Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye, who teaches Africana Dance.
The Spring 2024 issue of (m)othertongues has launched, featuring student works in prose, poetry, and the visual arts.
Those who knew Reginald Shepherd and those who know his work shared their insights at the 2024 Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture.
Winston Foundation grant funds $1,000 prizes for three students.
Poet and Memoirist Safiya Sinclair ’10, author of the memoir a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner and one of the most notable books of the year according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, and many others, will address the 89th graduating class at the conferring of degrees on Saturday, June 1. We connected with her to learn more about her time at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø and how it influenced her career.
Nine students from high schools around the country were selected as winners of ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s 2023-2024 Young Writers Awards.
Winston Foundation Grant funds 2024 Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College is pleased to announce that poet and memoirist Safiya Sinclair ’10 will address the class of 2024 at Commencement.
Poetry at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College for public readings and close work with students, has announced its Spring 2024 lineup of featured poets.
The Literature discipline at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College has received a grant from the Winston Foundation to fund a new course and reading from 2024 Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer .
The latest additions to ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s rich literary history have hit bookstore shelves. Their authors join ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø notables, including Donna Tartt '86, Kiran Desai '93, Michael Pollan '76, ​Ann Goldstein '71, Anaïs Duplan '14, Anne Waldman '66, Cynthia Sweeney MFA '13, Jamie Quatro MFA '09, Amy Gerstler '01, Morgan Jerkins MFA '16, and Charles Bock '97.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Review—a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing housed at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College—has released its twelfth issue, around the theme of “A Flash of Beauty.â€