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Writers Here & Now brings writers of national and international prominence to the University of Maryland.  It provides an opportunity for the university community to hear and meet the best writers of contemporary poetry and fiction.  The visits by writers include a public reading preceded by a reception at Queen Anne's Hall and classroom visits with MFA graduate students and undergraduate students in residence at the Jimenez-Porter Writers House.  Recent visiting writers include Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, Anne Carson, Lan Samantha Chang, Amy Hempel, Major Jackson, Tony Hoagland, George Saunders, Susan Stewart, C.K. Williams, and David Wojhan.

Upcoming Events

Wed Apr 1

7:00 PM
Tawes Hall, Ulrich Recital Hall

News

March 24, 2020
Alysia Sawchyn, AWP Conference [2]
Alysia Sawchyn presented her paper "In Defense of Navel-Gazing: Writing Trauma as a Political Act" at the AWP 2020 Conference in San Antonio, TX. 
March 24, 2020
Enoch receives 2020 Book Award [3]
The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition announced its bestowal of the Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award to Jessica Enoch for her volume Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work.
March 24, 2020
Maud Casey published in New England Review [4]
Maud Casey's story "The City Itself" appears in the most recent New England Review. This story is an excerpt from a larger collaboration with photographer Laura Larson (www.lauralarson.net) called The City of Incurable Women.
March 24, 2020
Sabrina Islam attends Key West Literary Seminar's Writers' Workshop [5]
Sabrina Islam received a scholarship to attend Key West Literary Seminar's Writers' Workshop Program, January 13-17. The program was a literary week of writing and discovery. In the mornings, Sabrina took part in Fernanda Eberstadt's workshop. Her afternoons were busy exploring the island, stopping into local bookstores, and touring the homes of Elizabeth Bishop, Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway.
March 20, 2020
Wible's Pedagogy Research Featured in Cs [6]
Wible's article, "Using Design Thinking to Teach Creative Problem Solving in Writing Courses," builds on a residency at Stanford University's Teaching and Learning Studio Faculty Workshop and a CLCS "Beyond the Classroom" grant. 
February 18, 2020
In Memoriam: Mary Turner, 1940-2020 [7]
Mary Dustin Turner passed away this past Saturday, February 15.
February 4, 2020
Danuta Hinc speaks with Michael Scott Moore about bestseller "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast." [8]
Danuta Hinc was in conversation with Michael Scott Moore about his bestselling memoir, "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast."
February 4, 2020
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, & Lucian Mattison at "In Your Ear" Reading Series [9]
December 2019's installment of the "In Your Ear," held at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan, featured Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, and Lucian Mattison
February 4, 2020
Senator Sarah Elfreth speaks at Shannon Zellars-Strohl's "Writing about the Environment" Class [10]
Sarah Elfreth, Maryland's youngest ever female senator, visited Shannon Zellars-Strohl's environmental writing class, speaking to students about how to write environmental policy proposals for an audience of law makers. Students in the class were then writing just such proposals for their final projects.
February 4, 2020
Steven Kleinman, MFA, wins the 2019 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry [11]
Steven Kleinman (MFA, University of Maryland, 2011) is the winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, which includes the publication of his debut book, Life Cycle of a Bear. 
February 8, 2019
Feb. 13: Kelly Cresap's story gig [12]
Takoma Park Busboys and Poets will feature Kelly Cresap and others to honor Valentine's Day.
October 18, 2018
Lindsay Bernal to Read at Area Bookstores [13]
Lindsay Bernal will read from What It Doesn't Have to Do With on October 21 in DC and October 22 in Baltimore.
May 6, 2018
Joshua Weiner Reading Bridge Street Books [14]
Joshua Weiner will be reading his Trumpoems on SUNDAY, May 6th, 6:00 PM at Bridge Street Books with DAVID GEWANTER in celebration of the publication of Gewanter's fourth book, FORT NECESSITY, just out from the University of Chicago Press.
April 10, 2018
Lindsay Bernal and Emily Flamm to Read at In Your Ear [15]
MFA Coordinator and recent winner of the National Poetry Series competition Lindsay Bernal and MFA Alumna Emily Flamm will read, along with Frank Montesonti and Jake Syersak. 
March 6, 2018
Kate Starbird, Lecture & Discussion: "Muddied Waters: Online Disinformation During Crisis Events" [16]
4:30 pm, Monday, April 9, 2018 | 1100 Cambridge Community CenterKate Starbird, assistant professor at University of Washington and expert on informatics, will share how alternative narratives of crisis information spread, creating confusion and clouding judgment.
February 21, 2018
Carlos Gamerro, “A Literary Threesome: Cervantes, Shakespeare and Fletcher in Cardenio” [17]
Carlos Gamerro will give a public lecture on Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in St. Mary's Hall Multipurpose Room. [...]
February 20, 2018
Mock Turtle Has New Venue! [18]
Mock Turtle has a new home at MilkBoy ArtHouse! We are thrilled about this new partnership with a venue that not only provides a gorgeous space but also strives to foster the arts on campus and around College Park. Our first reading is this Saturday, and we would love to see you there. Details below: 
February 20, 2018
Victoria E. Burke, “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing” [19]
The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2017-2018 series will take place on Friday, March 2nd, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205), 2nd floor, Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Dr. Victoria E. Burke will deliver a talk entitled “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing.”
January 17, 2018
Denis Johnson Tribute at Politics & Prose featuring Maud Casey [20]
On Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. at Politics & Prose, Maud Casey, Bill Beverly, and Amber Sparks will participate in a Tribute to Denis Johnson, celebrating the recent publication of Johnson's posthumous collection The Largesse of the Sea Maiden.
November 29, 2017
Folger's Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute [21]
Join us on Monday, December 11 at 7:30pm, as we celebrate the genius of Emily Dickinson with scholar and poet Sandra Gilbert. This third reading in the 2017/18 O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.
March 24, 2020
Alysia Sawchyn, AWP Conference [2]
Alysia Sawchyn presented her paper "In Defense of Navel-Gazing: Writing Trauma as a Political Act" at the AWP 2020 Conference in San Antonio, TX. 
March 24, 2020
Enoch receives 2020 Book Award [3]
The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition announced its bestowal of the Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award to Jessica Enoch for her volume Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work.
March 24, 2020
Maud Casey published in New England Review [4]
Maud Casey's story "The City Itself" appears in the most recent New England Review. This story is an excerpt from a larger collaboration with photographer Laura Larson (www.lauralarson.net) called The City of Incurable Women.
March 24, 2020
Sabrina Islam attends Key West Literary Seminar's Writers' Workshop [5]
Sabrina Islam received a scholarship to attend Key West Literary Seminar's Writers' Workshop Program, January 13-17. The program was a literary week of writing and discovery. In the mornings, Sabrina took part in Fernanda Eberstadt's workshop. Her afternoons were busy exploring the island, stopping into local bookstores, and touring the homes of Elizabeth Bishop, Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway.
March 20, 2020
Wible's Pedagogy Research Featured in Cs [6]
Wible's article, "Using Design Thinking to Teach Creative Problem Solving in Writing Courses," builds on a residency at Stanford University's Teaching and Learning Studio Faculty Workshop and a CLCS "Beyond the Classroom" grant. 
February 18, 2020
In Memoriam: Mary Turner, 1940-2020 [7]
Mary Dustin Turner passed away this past Saturday, February 15.
February 4, 2020
Danuta Hinc speaks with Michael Scott Moore about bestseller "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast." [8]
Danuta Hinc was in conversation with Michael Scott Moore about his bestselling memoir, "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast."
February 4, 2020
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, & Lucian Mattison at "In Your Ear" Reading Series [9]
December 2019's installment of the "In Your Ear," held at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan, featured Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, and Lucian Mattison
February 4, 2020
Senator Sarah Elfreth speaks at Shannon Zellars-Strohl's "Writing about the Environment" Class [10]
Sarah Elfreth, Maryland's youngest ever female senator, visited Shannon Zellars-Strohl's environmental writing class, speaking to students about how to write environmental policy proposals for an audience of law makers. Students in the class were then writing just such proposals for their final projects.
February 4, 2020
Steven Kleinman, MFA, wins the 2019 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry [11]
Steven Kleinman (MFA, University of Maryland, 2011) is the winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, which includes the publication of his debut book, Life Cycle of a Bear. 
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