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Visiting faculty member Colin Brant, former ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars faculty member Melissa Febos, and Michael Pollan '76 are recipients of the prestigious 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Louise Bokkenheuser, an MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the eighth Residential Teaching Fellow at the .
Poet Diane Seuss delivered the 53rd ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars Commencement address at the program's virtual winter residency.
Ariél M. Martinez, an MFA student in nonfiction, has been selected to be the seventh Residential Teaching Fellow at the .
Mark Wunderlich, Director of ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars, faculty member Craig Morgan Teicher, and past faculty Paul Yoon, Ephraim Asili, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Alexander Chee are recipients of the prestigious 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars alum Albert Abonado MFA '10 and faculty member Phillip B. Williams will receive Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000.
Poet and author Paisley Rekdal delivered the 51st ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars Commencement address at the program's virtual winter residency.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College alum Asad J. Malik '19 and ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars alum Morgan Jerkins MFA '16 have been selected as 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.
On September 20, ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars alumni hosted a virtual Black ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Literary Salon.
Nico Amador MFA '22, a second-term MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the fifth Residential Teaching Fellow at the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars.
The ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that is the recipient of the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. He will begin his studies in January 2021.
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for “distinguished poetic achievement,â€
Author Eula Biss delivered the 50th ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars Commencement address at the program's first-ever virtual residency.
Faculty member J Blackwell ’95, ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars faculty member Jenny Boully, past BWS commencement speaker Garth Greenwell, and Helen Mirra '91 are recipients of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that is the recipient of the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. She will begin her studies in June 2020.
In 2019, undergraduate and ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 65 books.
Poet Jericho Brown delivered the 49th ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars Commencement address.
, finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, will be the Commencement speaker for the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars in January 2020.
Puloma Ghosh, a rising fourth-term MFA candidate in fiction, has been selected as the fourth Residential Teaching Fellow at the, working in the classroom for a full term beginning in Spring 2020
¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith is a for the 2019 National Book Awards in Poetry.
PEN America interviewed Davin Malasarn MFA '20 and Monica Carter MFA '20, both past recipients of the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø/PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, for The PEN Ten weekly interview series.
Jeanie Riess, a rising second-term MFA student in fiction, has been selected to be the third Residential Teaching Fellow at the . The fellowship is the first of its kind in the country to offer full-time undergraduate teaching experience in a low-residency MFA format. Benefits include full tuition remission for one term, housing and board, and enrollment in an on-campus class.
MFA '03, author of the bestselling novel and critically-acclaimed AMC series , will be the Commencement speaker for the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars in June 2019. Walker is a graduate of the fiction program and will deliver the Commencement address on Saturday, June 22 at 7:30 pm in ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s Usdan Gallery.
The ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars, in partnership with , has announced that Natalie Mislang Mann is the recipient of the $10,000 ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø/PEN America Emerging Voices scholarship. She’ll begin her studies in June 2019, on the 25th Anniversary of the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars' founding.
Novelist, poet, and literary critic Garth Greenwell delivered the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars 47th Commencement address.
A dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons. A disillusioned detective back on the beat. An exploration of what it means to be black, feminist, and female in America. A deep dive into the new science of psychedelics. Across millions of words and myriad perspectives, one constant is clear: 2018 was a big year for ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø writers.
Matthew Groner, a rising third-term MFA candidate in fiction, has been selected as the second Residential Teaching Fellow at the, working in the classroom for a full term beginning in Spring 2019.
Tim Hernandez MFA '11 received University of California Santa Barbara’s 15th annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.
We All Love the Beautiful Girls, the second novel by Joanne Proulx MFA ’14, garnered praise from , , and .
"Bees," a poem by Maya Ribault MFA '18, is featured in the September 3, 2018 issue of The New Yorker.