Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
Founded in 1947, the Writing Seminars is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States and has always been ranked highly in the field. The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Writing Seminars alum Suilebhan supports literature and literary opportunities as executive director of the Pen/Faulkner Foundation.
The 2026 O. Henry Prizes for Short Fiction have been announced, and two Writing Seminars alumni are among the winners: Jenny Xie, for her story “Stick Season,” and Louise Erdrich, […]
For his manuscript, Bitters, Christopher Childers (MFA ’16) has been awarded the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by Waywiser Press. The Hecht Prize, now in its 21st year, awards $3,000 and […]
